Live from NPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, the Trump administration has announced $...
in aid for Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes struck the country Wednesday evening
in Pierce Fatmitanis reports.
“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 UN 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 and this way this health minister says a confirmed death toll is now 235, some 43 hundred people were injured.
U.S. men's national soccer team has closed out group stage play at the World Cup with a loss.
“U.S. felt a turkey three goals to two in Anglewood, California Thursday night reporter”
Steve Futterman was there. He says it was a hard-fog game but did not matter for either team. This was a match that had very little impact on the World Cup itself. The U.S. had already qualified for the knockout round and was using a large number of substitute players.
Turkey, on the other hand, had already been eliminated from the knockout round. Still it was a thrilling contest. The score was tied two to two when Turkey got its game winning goal in the 98th minute, willing to stop each time a goal from Khan Ion. The Americans and the group stage with two wins, one loss.
The Americans now set their sights on the knockout rounds. The first test for the Americans will come on Wednesday in Santa Clara, California against Bosnia, Herzegovina.
“For MPR news, I'm Steve Futterman at the World Cup in Los Angeles.”
U.S. Supreme Court has handed the White House victories in a pair of immigration cases that MPR's Humanibosteos says you present and trump more power to set immigration policies. Both of these rulings reduce legal pathways to enter the country. The administration has a broader goal of mass deportations, and in order to reach that goal, the administration has increased the number of people who are eligible for deportation.
Even if they are legally here, this administration is very focused on immigration enforcement in the interior of the country, while also keeping border crossings as minimal as possible. And these rulings allow the government to further change the immigration system. The court allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants and also clear the way for the administration to potentially revive an immigration policy.
Use to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the southern border. You're listening to MPR news. The immigration detention center known as alligator Alcatraz, no longer has a detainee population. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a briefing at the site west of Miami Thursday, Mike Braun with member station WGCU has more.
Almost a year to the day, the detention facility was first announced. DeSantis was joined, but U.S. borders are a time home to confirm the site is shutting down. Alligator Alcatraz has helped remove many, many dangerous people from the street and get them out of not only the state of Florida, but the United States of America.
But immigration advocates say the facility was never safe or humane for holding people.
DeSantis's the site was always considered temporary with plans to break it down after it was no longer needed. He says that breaking down the facility, which is responsible for 21,000 deportations during the year was open, will take about 7 to 14 days. For MPR news, on Mike Braun in Fort Myers, Florida. The federal drug enforcement administration is asking the justice departments
internal watchdog to investigate a whistleblower's claims that DEA agents permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills onto the streets of New Mexico over a two-year period. The request follows an associate of press investigation that found agents monitored, but did not seize the pills and abilded in a bid to build bigger criminal cases. New Mexico's governor has asked the state attorney general to examine whether the agents
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