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in aid for Venezuela, following the devastating back-to-back earthquakes.
“U.S. also sending rescue teams to help dig through the rubble that's in PRS Michelle”
KELOMEN reports. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he set up a task force at the State Department and has sent search and rescue teams from California and Virginia to help find survivors of the earthquakes in Venezuela. That's their most immediate need right now, is search and rescue efforts to have a much
of collapse buildings, and so don't need a lot of help in terms of digging through that. The airport there is badly damaged, so we'll have to rely on the Department of War to deploy assets there.
Rubio, who dismantled the lead U.S. aid agency last year, announced $50 million for private aid
groups on the ground in Venezuela, and another $100 million to be distributed through a U.N. fund, Michelle KELOMEN, and B.R. News, Washington. The death toll in Venezuela is rising. The country's health minister now says some 235 people were killed, and another 43 hundred were injured.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson was at the White House Thursday, meeting with President Trump,”
amid a standoff between the President and Congress, over his stalled voter ID bill known as the Save America Act. Trump has refused to sign a popular bipartisan housing bill until the Senate moves on the election measure first. After the meeting, Speaker Johnson told reporters that Congress will send the housing bill
to the White House. He did not specify when, but he said he and Trump are on the same page. "Is another dare the office, you know, this is the process in an era with small margins,
but we'll get the job done, we always do, and we'll see you guys on Monday."
Johnson's meeting with Trump came as GOP hardliners effectively shut down the House floor until the Senate passes the elections bill, the Senate is tried, and failed to pass it multiple times since March. Supreme Court today gave the green light to the Trump administration to begin mass deportations
“of 350,000 Haitians who have been living and working legally in the U.S. many of them”
for more than a decade, in pairs need a Tottenberg reports. The Court ruled against the Haitians and others, covered by the so-called temporary protective status law on two grounds. First, the conservative majority ruled that courts have no authority to intervene in TPS decisions under the statute, and second, they denied the Haitians' constitutional claim that Trump
set him to N TPS status was racially motivated. The Court's liberal dissenters blasted that assertion, pointing to derice of remarks that Trump made about Haitians from his debunked claim that Haitians eat their neighbors' paths to as many derogatory comments about Haitians, and his stated desire to have "more nor regions" instead, Nina Tottenberg and PR News Washington.
"This is NPR." A top-noticed, apart-service official is describing apparent intentional damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in a sworn court statement submitted as part of the Trump Administrative Operations response to a lawsuit, challenging the renovation, deputy director of operations, Frank Lands said the liner at the bottom of the pool was cut with a sharp knife or razor
and that about 70 fence post-ops were thrown into the pool, President Trump has repeatedly blamed vandals and the interior departments as there have been seven arrests. The jury in the federal arts in case of the man accused of starting the deadly palisades fire says it is deadlock, Steve Futterman reports from Los Angeles. In the second full day of deliberations, the jury initially sent a note informing the court
in it reached the verdict, but there was some confusion. A second note soon after said jurors were unable to reach a decision. When the judge asked if there was anything the court could do to help, the jury said no. jurors were sent home for the day and the morning they were likely be given an instruction urging them to try to find a way to reach a decision.
Jonathan Rinder-Connect faces three arson charges that could send them to prison for 45 years. If the jurors continued to claim they are deadlocked, a mistrial could be declared. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. The regional stock markets in Asia are losing ground in Friday trading, South Korea's benchmark.
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