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At least 235 people are now confirmed dead in Venezuela following a pair of powerful earthquakes.
“The number of injured tops 4,000 and thousands more are missing.”
Search and rescue teams continue going through the rubble of collapsed buildings looking for potential survivors. Rescue teams and search dogs have begun arriving from other countries including once from Chile, El Salvador, and Switzerland. The State Department says the U.S. is sending search teams and other aid to Venezuela
where a state of emergency is in effect. NPR's Michelle Kelliman has more. 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 the 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 UN fund. Michelle Kelliman and PR News, Washington. The U.S. geological survey says the earthquakes won a magnitude 7.2, the other registering 7.5 struck on Wednesday less than a minute apart. They were the strongest quakes to hit Venezuela in more than a century.
Ukrainian forces launched one of their largest drone attacks in years against Russia overnight. The Defense Ministry in Moscow says Russian forces intercepted more than 650 drones across 12 regions, and recent months Ukraine has stepped up its drone attacks on Russian military installations and energy facilities. The U.S. Supreme Court is siding with the maker of round-up weed killer in a ruling
that's expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the manufacturer, Monsanto, failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. The vote was 72, Frank Morris, with Harvest Public Media reports. Ron Durrell claimed that years of using round-up gave him lymphoma, a jury agreed and awarded him one and a quarter million dollars, chiefly because there's no cancer risk warning
on the round-up label. The World Health Organization says that round-up is probably carcinogenic, but the environmental protection agency disagrees, provided it's used as directed, and the EPA is in charge of pesticide warning labels. Bridget Rollins at the National Agricultural Law Center says the high court found that
a company can't be sued in state court for using a label blessed by federal regulators. Federal law is the deciding factor here and now the failure to warn claims cannot come to court. That's a bullet of thousands of litigants who think round-up gave them cancer. Frontier News on Frank Morris in Kansas City.
This is NPR News. Despite higher food and energy prices sparked by war with Iran, the Commerce Department is revising upward the growth of the U.S. economy during the first quarter. The economy expanded at an annual rate of 2.1 percent during the period of January through March.
That's higher than the previous estimate of 1.6 percent. The report says business investment also jumped during the quarter, likely as a result of companies putting money into AI. The U.S. lost its final group stage match at the men's World Cup soccer tournament. Turkey scored a goal late in the stoppage time last night to beat the U.S. 3 to 2.
Still as NPR's Becky Sullivan reports, the American team now heads to the tournaments 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.
“Do you even it up at 2 to 2 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. Four key players with yellow cards were benched all game and star-winger Christian
placix 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 Los Angeles.
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