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The Trump administration has announced $150 million in assistance for Venezuela after
“two powerful earthquakes left at least 589 people did.”
NPR's Pat Métanis reports emergency teams are digging through the rubble of collapse buildings in Caracas searching for survivors. The State Department says it's deploying search and rescue teams from Virginia and California to Venezuela to help locate survivors of the earthquake. The Virginia team will include 80 people and six dogs.
Local authorities say they believe hundreds of people are still stuck under rubble. The 150 million from the U.S. is for aid groups and United Nations agencies. The State Department has also enlisted help from the Pentagon for logistics and delivery of urgent medical and other supplies. According to the U.M. nearly 8 million people in Venezuela were already in need of humanitarian
support as the country has been in deep political and financial crisis for many years. Fatmitanis and PR News President Trump hosted farmers at the White House last night as the administration tries to shore up support among one of his most reliable voting blocks.
“NPR's Danielle Kurt Slape and reports tariffs and the war with their run have driven up prices,”
adding to the financial strain facing many farmers. Tariffs made inputs like equipment more expensive. His trade wars have especially damaged the soybean market, and the war in Iran made fertilizer and diesel more costly. The prices are starting to come down, but people in farm country have lost confidence in
the president. One month into this term, rural voters net approval of Trump was at plus 22 percentage points in the NPR PBS News Marists poll. This month it was at negative 10, so that's a huge slide. It's NPR's 10-year-old Kurt Slape.
President Trump's push to overhaul U.S. elections is facing pushback on Capitol Hill. The president says he won't sign any legislation until Congress passed what's known as the Save America Act. NPR's Ashley Lopez reports the measure has little chance of advancing in the Senate.
Trump has said he believes the Save America Act would ensure Republicans never lose another
election, as his party faces a potentially bruising election cycle this fall. If passed, the law would prohibit states from registering voters who don't provide proof of citizenship. That includes birth certificates, passports, and some state and tribal IDs. Citizenship is already required to register to vote, and according to experts, non-citizen
voting is extremely rare. The law would also require voter ID for ballots cast both in person and by mail. The bill would also force states to hand over sensitive voter data to the Trump administration. It does not currently have the 60 votes needed in the Senate to overcome a filibuster. Ashley Lopez and PR news.
This is NPR News. The U.S. lost its final group stage match at the Men's World Cup Soccer Tournament. Turkey scored a goal late into the stoppage time last night to beat the U.S. three to two. Still, as NPR's Becky Sullivan reports, the American team now heads to the tournament's knockout round, where it's win or go home.
The U.S. scored first, and they rallied back after Turkey scored two goals of their own, to even it up at two to two early in the second half. It was the first time the Americans had trailed at this World Cup, then a Turkey-stoppage time goal handed the U.S. their first loss. But there's no need to take too much away from this result as the U.S. starting lineup
“was mostly substitutes for key players with yellow cards were benched all game and starwing”
or Christian Plyssic sub-dawned during the second half to a rowdy standing ovation to mark his return from a calf injury that had sidelines him for a game. Now the U.S. turned to the doer die knockout round, where they'll first face Bosnia and Herzegovina next Wednesday in Santa Clara. Becky Sullivan and PR News lost the interest.
The Australian government says it's moving to strengthen the world's first law banning children under 16 from social media. The government is calling for tougher enforcement after evidence suggested many children have continued to hold accounts on platforms including Facebook, Instagram and YouTube since the law took effect last December.
The Prime Minister told a parliament that changes are at top priority because previous
generations never had to navigate the challenges kids face today on social media.
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