- Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Kivone.
In South America, at least 20 people are dead after a powerful earthquake has struck Columbia.
“According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Western Columbia”
and could be felt as far away as Venezuela and Ecuador, and PR's carry con reports. - The strong-quake struck early Monday morning rattling buildings and homes in the Choco region, some 150 miles west of the Columbia and capital Bogota. The U.S. Geos at the Temblor struck at a depth of 66 miles, posting on social media. The governor of Choco says there are reports of, quote, "multiple injuries and severe damage
to the buildings." Some 140,000 people live in Quibdo, the capital of the region, video on local TV from cities in the region, so collapse, building, and major damage to a regional airport. The quake comes more than a month after two strong back-to-back earthquakes hit neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 5,000 people in destroying hundreds of buildings, carry con and
PR news, Rio de Janeiro. - Europe is bracing for its fifth heat wave this year in Britain authorities have issued fresh health alerts as temperatures are forecast to reach more than 95 degrees Fahrenheit later this week, and PR's Fatima Alcassab has details from London. This latest heat wave comes as more than half of England and all of Wales are already
experiencing drought, green fields have turned scorched brown, and farmers are warning of shortages of certain foods if there isn't rain soon.
20 million people in England are under water restrictions, what authorities here call
a "host pipe ban". July was the driest month since record keeping began in 1836, with parts of England not getting a single drop of rain, and PR's Fatima Alcassab reporting from London. Poling shows most Americans believe that young adults in the United States have a harder time financially than their parents did at their age, and PR's Jennifer Lutton says many
parents are helping to support their children well into adulthood. When Mabel Lagoander has been retired to South Carolina this year, they made sure there was room for their 39-year-old son, who lives with them. His job paid low wages and no benefits, and Lagoza's rents are way too high. "The young people have really been shafted at big time."
In the pricey Seattle area, one of David Zuckerrow's 30-something daughters moved back home to cut costs, and the other wants to.
“"When I look at the salaries these kids make, I'm like, how can you not live on this?”
But they can't." The share of adults under 35 living with parents as shot up dramatically in the past two decades, and AARP finds most parents also provide financial support to grown children, needed or not, though many say they give even when it hurts their own budget. Jennifer Lutton and peer news.
"This is NPR News in Washington." The nation's largest reservoir has hit its lowest water level, like Need was created 90 years ago by Colorado River Waters a question by the Hoover Dam along the border of Arizona and Nevada. The resource feeds a huge agricultural industry as well as big cities, like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, climate change, and drought conditions have been reducing
the reservoir for the last quarter century. A 4-A-Gang member is going on trial today in Nevada for the 1996 murder of hip hop icon 2-Poxia Corps, Steve Futterman, has details from Las Vegas. Join Davis, a former influential gang member, as accused of orchestrating the killing of Shakur, Prosecutors say it was a retaliation hit, two hours after Shakur and his entourage were
in an altercation with another gang member Orlando Anderson. The case against Davis focuses on what he himself has said previously, former federal prosecutor Lori Levinson. "If Davis is convicted, it's likely to be based upon his own words. He wrote a memoir in 2019 that talked all about his involvement in the crime."
Davis claims his comments in the book were an embellishment to increase sales. In addition, he says he wasn't even in Las Vegas the night of the shooting. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman, in Las Vegas.
"Well, the second baffo weekend under its belt Spider-Man brand new day is taken in 1.6 billion
at the Box office in just 10 days, global audience enthusiasm has made the Sony Marvel release one of the biggest blockbusters ever. I'm Louise Kievone and PR News." 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today, its back at rates not seen in half a century.
"These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings."
“"On the Sunday story, why coal miners and Appalachia are getting thicker faster?”
Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the MPR app."
