"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
Certain rescue operations are continuing in northern Venezuela after back-to-back earthquakes
“devastated the region on Wednesday, at least 235 people are confirmed dead and officials”
mourn the death toll is likely to rise as crews dig through the rubble of collapsed buildings. Reporter Manuel Ruida says the devastation stretches far beyond the hardest hit neighborhoods. "Some parts of Caracas look like a war zone because many buildings have collapsed entirely and also in La Guida, which is a city about an hour away on the Caribbean coast. And because so many buildings have collapsed, people have lost their homes, they're sleeping
in parks at night." The U.S. has deployed disaster response teams to assist with search and recovery efforts.
The White House is also pledging $150 million in humanitarian aid.
They've faced organizations that help resettle refugees are blasting the Supreme Court ruling that allows the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the Southern Border. NPR's Jason D'Rose reports.
“"Many groups that welcome asylum seekers and resettle refugees do their work as a form”
of ministry." "Criscio Maravignaraja heads the Lutheran Organization Global Refuge." There is a call rooted in Scripture to welcome stranger to treat the least of us with hospitality. "Many people seeking asylum in the U.S. are doing so for religious reasons," says Matthew Sorons with the Evangelical Organization World Relief.
"That's true for people fleeing persecution as Christians or as Muslims or as Hindus
or other religious traditions." The administration argues that the asylum system is rife with abuse, Soron says this Supreme Court decision makes it more difficult for people of faith to live out the value of hospitality. Jason D'Rose and PR News The Trump administration says the U.S. Forest Service is fully staffed for the summer
as dozens of wildfires continue to burn in the west, but as NPR's Kirk Sigler reports,
“some former federal firefighters are pushing back on those claims.”
There are now more than three dozen major fires burning mostly in the west, which is baking in a heat wave, and all this comes as the U.S. Forest Service, the country's lead firefighting agency, has lost close to 6,000 employees since last year. Timothy Inglesby is a retired forest service firefighter in Oregon. "Call it a paradox in which when wildfire activity is surging, the federal wildland
fire workforce is shrinking." Forest Service says it's fully staffed with seasonal wildland firefighters, but sources inside the agency say that's not the full picture. For one, they say many fire management veterans were let go in the last year, and their positions are now being filled by people who are not fully qualified.
Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boise. "This is NPR News." A Viking battle cry is inspiring and uniting the Norwegian team at the World Cup, and PR's William Jones has more. Imagine this, Norwegian fans wearing Viking helmets, seated on a moving escalator in a
Boston train station, pulling imaginary ors and chanting. It became known as the Viking row, and it inspired Norway's parliament, including Speaker Masood Garakani. He gavled in a special moment, politicians paused to bait and took out their laws. "We did this role role exercise to show our support to our national team, from the heart
of democracy in Norway." Norwegian fans and the players have been celebrating wins against Iraq and Senegal with the Viking row, and with a nation rowing in Unison, Norway's World Cup voyage could well go far, William Jones and PR News. Photers and California will decide in November whether to impose a tax on billionaires
to help offset cuts to health care for low-income residents. The proposed measure would impose a one-time 5% tax on people with the net worth of more than $1 billion. A major labor union is backing the proposal despite opposition from Democratic Governor Gadden Newsom, Kurdics argued that tax could drive wealthy residents out of California
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