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The official death toll in Venezuela is now more than 1,700 after two powerful earthquakes
five days ago.
“NPR's Aedar Paralty reports on rescue operations in Caracas.”
Over night, rescue crews did manage to extract one person with life, but they are now digging through rubble for a fifth day. And the chances of finding people alive is diminishing. Jorge Rodriguez, the president of the National Assembly, said more than 5,000 people were injured.
855 buildings had been damaged, 189 of them were completely collapsed. The government says they've opened shelters, but on the streets of Caracas, the displaced are sleeping on sidewalks and in parks. Aedar Paralty, NPR news, Caracas. The Supreme Court says Lisa Cook can keep her job as a member of the Federal Reserve's
governing board, at least for now, and P.R. Scott Horsley reports the decision is a setback for President Trump. In a 5-4 rule in the High Court said the president failed to give Lisa Cook due process when he tried to fire her from the Fed board. The attempt to dismissal was part of a broader campaign by the president to bend the central
“bank to his will, and hopes of forcing lower interest rates.”
While the decision was made on narrow procedural grounds, Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Fed was deliberately designed to be insulated from political pressure to help prevent the kind of economic panics that were common before the central bank was established. That carve out for the Fed is in contrast to the Supreme Court's general direction of giving the White House greater control over agencies that were once considered independent.
The High Court ruled six to three today. The president can fire member of the Federal Trade Commission, reversing a president that is stood for nearly a century. Scott Horsley and P.R. News was Washington. Comcast is claiming to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by
spinning off NBC Universal in Sky. The company says its board and management team think each company will be better positioned to pursue its own priorities and grow as independent entities. NBC Universal includes a theme parks division, Universal Film and TV studios and B.C. Telmondo, Peacock, and Bravo.
“Its portfolio will now include European Media Business Sky.”
The FAA is investigating a possible collision between a passenger jet and a drone. And P.R.s Joel Rose says a jet blue flight reported the collision this morning. Jet blue flight 948 was preparing to land at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York when the pilot told air traffic control about the incident. In this archived audio recording from the website liveatc.net.
The jet blue pilot said the collision occurred around 715am as the flight from Las Vegas was on its final approach to JFK, about 3,000 feet above the ground. The plane landed safely, the FAA says there was no damage to the aircraft, but an investigation is underway. Joel Rose and P.R. News.
A heat wave is gripping the Midwest and is shifting eastward. This is NPR News. Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer is threatening to pull Michigan's national guard troops from Washington, D.C. if they're included as part of President Trump's controversial crime patrols in the city.
Researchers have Democratic governors had began sending guard numbers to the city for the
first time this week, or last week amid Trump's controversial deployment.
South Africa is bracing for a day of nationwide anti-immigrant protest tomorrow, an organization called March and March gave all foreigners illegally in the country the deadline of June 30 to get out as NPR's Kate Bartlett reports. Thousands of Malawians are camped out in the coastal city of Durbin waiting for buses to repatriate them while thousands of Symbolians are streaming to the border while the anti-immigrant
populist groups have no authority to enforce the arbitrary deadline. Many migrants aren't taking any chances. There have been flare ups of xenophobic violence in the past with dozens killed. About 4% of South Africa's population is made up of immigrants. Many are economic migrants from poorer African countries.
The anti-immigrant groups blame other African nationals for taking jobs, a mid- and unemployment crisis in South Africa. The government has warned against violence on Tuesday and spent around $35 million on beefing up security, Kate Bartlett in Perneus, Johannesburg. Some Albanians have been protesting a development involving President Trump's son-in-law,
Jared Kushner, the project threatens the Narta lagoon in Albania, a wildlife reserve home to Flamingos, protesters have been marching with Flamingo cutouts, earning the movement the nickname, the Flamingo Revolution. This is NPR News from Washington. This is our glass.
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