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Frustration is growing in Venezuela following last week's earthquake that killed more than 1,400 people.
“John Otis reports survivors claim the government's response has been slow and inept.”
"That's a backhoe digging through the ruins of a 12-story building that collapsed here in the coastal town of Los Corales.
But local residents say the government backhoe operator never showed up.
So they had to pay for one. Many are insensed by government paralysis and bureaucracy. The security forces have been accused of looting. Doctors and rescue workers have faced delays getting to the disaster zone because they lacked government permits.
All this is costing lives, says Rosalia Bustamante, who lost several friends when the building collapsed. There were people in the ruins responding when we called out to them, but now they are dead. For Imperial News, I'm Jan Otis in Los Corales, Venezuela." Iran has launched drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait in response to the American
air strikes.
“NPR's Ruth Schurlock reports the attacks come as the U.S. and Iran threaten to end their”
negotiations. Despite the memorandum of understanding to end the fighting, the U.S. and Iran are trading increasing fire. The U.S. military central command said its drug military targets inside Iran after Iran attacked a foreign ship carrying oil to Qatar in the state of Hormuz.
The flashpoint is disagreement over who will control the state. Iran's paramilitary revolutionary guard claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait, which both host U.S. military bases. It warned if U.S. strikes continue, of quote, "a complete halt to ongoing negotiations." President Trump took to truth social with his own threats to attack militarily with full
force. If that happens, he wrote, "The Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist. Ruth Schurlock and Pyrenees, bayreet." After two major immigration victories at the Supreme Court President Trump is moving ahead
“with plans that could lead to the deportation, as is many of a 1 million immigrants.”
NPR's moral lie is set. It's not clear how fast the Trump administration will move to deport legal immigrants from Haiti, Syria and other countries who have what's called TPS or temporary protected status. The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can remove TPS from these immigrants because the executive branch controls the immigration system.
Some of the TPS immigrants have been in the country legally for decades and are deeply integrated into the economies of some American cities, working in factories and nursing homes. Trump has had a particular animist towards Haitians for years, falsely accusing them during the 2024 election of eating people's pet cats and dogs. Moralias and NPR news.
It's NPR. Extreme temperatures in large parts of Europe are being blamed in France for an additional 1,000 deaths during the record break, breaking heat wave. Authorities in Berlin used water cannons to cool down crowds. The temperatures were shattered across the continent.
The World Health Organization warns that Europe is the fastest warming part of the world because of climate change and nations need to do more to protect citizens. Hollywood is in the middle of a hot streak and not just because of the weather. Here's NPR's Bob Mondello.
This summer always looked promising with Toy Story 5 and Devil Wears Proud of 2 on the
menu. That's not what you're wearing to the dinner. That's all. No one expected low budget horror flicks, obsession, and backgrounds and the Michael Jackson Biopic Michael to contribute another 600 million.
Probably music could change the world. This year is currently running about even with 2019 when Avengers in-game was supercharging ticket sales. Still to come this summer, Spider-Man, brand new day, Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, and Minions and Monsters, which has some observers predicting North American box office
will top ten billion dollars this year, one caveat in dollar terms that's a return to pre-pandemic levels, but ticket prices have risen so it's still fewer people. Bob Mondello and BR News. The governors of Colorado and Utah have declared states of emergency as wildfires in those two states have claimed the lives of three firefighters in injured two others.
The fires are being fueled by extreme dry and windy conditions. The largest fire the cottonwood fire is expected to grow, it is 144 square miles. It's NPR. Support. This is our glass.
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