"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
says it conducted airstrikes on multiple targets in Iran in a direct response to what
“it says was an Iranian attack earlier in the day on an oil tanker in the straight-of-war”
moves. Central Command says the tanker, a Panama flagged ship, was attacked by a one-way Iranian attack drone. The US's commercial vessels, though, continue to transit through the straight." The death toll from the twin earthquakes in Venezuela has risen to more than 1,400. If your Zatah for all to reports, now the race is on to try to find survivors. "It has now been nearly 72 hours since two earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude shook
of Venezuela. Acting President Del Ciro Dregas has militarized the state of LaWayda just north of the Capitol Caracas. She says the priority right now is to find survivors. The government, she said, is mobilizing heavy equipment. Residents of LaWayda, however, say the help is insufficient. Many are digging using picks, shovels and bare hands. Experts say the greatest chance of finding survivors comes within 72 hours of a quake. The fear
is that many are still left under the rubble. Family members are reporting thousands
“of people missing. Iter Proto and Pierre News in LaWayda state in Venezuela."”
President Trump says he's nominating a former Oklahoma state trooper to lead immigration and customs enforcement. The agency has been without a Senate confirmed director since 2017. And Pierre's Shondalee Stuster has more. President Trump said in a social media post that he has chosen "Land Shroyer" to be the next immigration and customs enforcement director. Shroyer is senior advisor to Homeland
Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin and has been overseeing coordination of immigration enforcement according to the agency. He previously worked at the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety was an Oklahoma State trooper and served as a U.S. Marine. Shroyer's nomination must be approved by the Senate. If confirmed, he would replace acting ice director David Venturella. Ice has not had a Senate confirmed director since President Obama's administration.
Shondalee's Duster and PR News. Kentucky Governor Andy Bishar has declared a state of emergency after flash floods that left at least one person dead in-and-dated multiple counties. Curtis Tate from Member Sation W. E. K. U. Hessmore. Bishar said parts of Kentucky had already received six to seven inches of rain Saturday
and he warned people to stay off the roads. He also said search and rescue teams were on the ground. "Thank you. To all the first responders out there, we've seen dozens upon dozens of rescues." Multiple counties have declared states of emergency. Bishar said Madison County, which is just south of Lexington, was especially hard hit. He encouraged people to
avoid calling 911 for updates on road conditions and directed them to KY.gov instead. For NPR News, I'm Curtis Tate in Richmond, Kentucky. You're listening to NPR News.
The Department of Health and Human Services says 5 million people have dropped out of health
care coverage through the Affordable Care Act. This says subsidies expire and costs rise after President Trump and Congress allowed Obama care premiums to rise double on average from last year's. This year, healthcare experts predict even more people will cancel their plans to allow them to allow them to lapse because of the cost. For more than a century federal Indian boarding schools worked to break tribal bonds
by isolating children from their families and forcing them to abandon their culture. But one still operational school in Santa Fe followed a different path. If your Sequoia Corrillo has more. Santa Fe Indian School, like many boarding schools of its kind, has a painful history.
Being first established in 1890 as a Native American boarding school, which we still are
a boarding school, it's just not in the way that people would think a boarding school is. That's Kyle Chotiva, a junior at the school. Located in the middle of Santa Fe, it wasn't quite as isolated as other Native boarding schools. And were most of these schools forced assimilation, Santa Fe's became known for training many Native artists as early as the 1930s. After New Deal era public works money, flowed into the surrounding area. Now, the school's
safeguards native culture and teaches 11 languages on campus. Generations of families work at and attend to the school. Sequoia Corrillo and Pyreneus and I'm Janine Herbst. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on Consider This in New York, big primary wins for congressional candidates backed by New York City Mayor's Ron Mombani, a Democratic Socialist.
“Does his brand of politics offer a new blueprint for Democrats?”
For far too long, we haven't been able to answer what we're fighting for, only who we're fighting. And now, we have the answer. So Ron Mombani, on Consider This, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get
