"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
The acting president of Venezuela says the death toll after two powerful earthquakes this
“week has risen to at least 589, nearly 3,000 others were injured.”
Two days after the quakes emergency crews continued to dig through the rubble and debris of collapsed buildings in the capital. These are Jimenez, is with Project Hope. He's in Caracas where rescue teams are racing to find survivors. "In more than 40 or 50 buildings, partially or totally collapsed, I'm talking about businesses,
households, hotels, maybe 15 or to 20 stories building, totally collapsed with a lot of people inside, a lot of pets, kids, it's really heartbreaking. And there are still hundreds of people trapped under their buildings." The Trump administration has pledged $150 million in humanitarian aid. Stocks on Wall Street opened lower this morning as oil prices fell, and PR Scott Horsley
“reports the Dow Jones industrial average dropped about 108 points in early trading.”
"As oil tanker traffic and the straight-of-four moves begins to come untangled, Saudi Arabia is preparing to start shipping oil once again. Saudi Iran could begin loading tankers at its rostonura terminal for the first time in almost four months." crude oil prices have fallen nearly 10% in the last week, with the U.S. benchmark dropping below $70 a barrel, retail gas and diesel prices have also been inching lower, although
triple-ases the average price of regular gas is still about 92 cents a gallon higher than when the war the Iran began. Apple is raising prices for MacBooks and iPads, and the price of iPhones is expected to jump as well. The company blames the rising cost of memory chips sparked by the artificial intelligence boom. Scott Horsley and Pierre News was Washington.
“The Trump administration says it's teeming up with a Texas-based private company to preserve”
the DNA of endangered species, and PR's Nate Roth reports. The company, Colossal Biosciences, is best known for its efforts to bring back extinct species, like the woolly mammoth and the direwolf, efforts that have raised a lot of concerns in the broader wildlife conservation community. Under the new partnership, the company says it will aim to store DNA, tissue, or cell samples of the more than 2300 plants and animals
protected under the Endangered Species Act, and that it will use them for research, zoos, academic institutions, and federal agencies already buyo bank samples of Imperial Species,
which can be used to help their recovery. Some scientists are critical, though, of the government
partnering with a for-profit company to help those efforts. Nate Roth and PR News. Stocks on Wall Street are trading lower at the Sour, the Dow is down 75 points, the Nasdaq down 124. This is NPR News in Washington. Apple is raising prices amid a shortage of computer memory chips and PR's John Rwitch reports. Apple quietly boosted prices on its website for a range of products, including MacBooks
and iPads. In many cases, prices went up around 15 to 20%. So, for instance, a 14-inch MacBook Pro that cost $1,699 yesterday, according to Archived webpages, now starts at $1,999. Apple TV 4K is now $1.99 instead of $1.29. For Apple's most popular product at the iPhone, it kept prices flat. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created a surge in demand for memory and storage leading to a spike in chip prices. Apple says that's created an unprecedented
challenge for the entire consumer electronics industry. Apple says it shielded customers for a while, but the cost of memory chips has reached a point where it needs to start raising prices. Several other major players have already done so. John Rwitch and PR News. Apple is a financial supporter of NPR. A massive heat wave continues to grip much of Western Europe temperatures have topped 100-4 degrees in parts of France, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
In a single owns a dry cleaning shop in South London. Researchers say extreme heat like this is now about 200 times more likely than it was 20 years ago because of climate change. I'm Mr. Johnston and PR News in Washington. This is our glass. On this American life, when they me like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes about really big things. But most times, the little mysteries are the best. Our lost and
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