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"Live from MPR news and Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

El Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared a public healthy emergency in Washington

State.

And P. R. Salina Simmons' stuff and reports the emergency gives more flexibility to the

state during ongoing wildfires." The public health emergency declaration comes on the heels of President Trump's emergency declaration last week. In a statement, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, "We stand with the people of Washington and we will not let them face this crisis alone."

Part of HHS, the administration for strategic preparedness and response, has sent regional staff to the state and is standing by to send more staff, equipment, and supplies if requested by the state. Around 65,000 people were evacuated out of Spokane last week, but now some roads have reopened and people who live in communities outside of the immediate area of the fires have been

allowed to return home. And there are other act of wildfires throughout the state and the region. Selina Simmons' stuff and P. R. News. Canada's British Columbia also under a state of emergency because of wildfires and Canadian military has been put on standby.

After one person was killed in tens of thousands of evacuated.

The former Olympian at the heart of the reflecting pool dispute between President Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine P. R. says his confidence in the nation is being tested. David Hurts spoke with MPR. I don't think people are taking this lying down. I've had so much support from all of my biking buddies, my paddling buddies, my neighborhood

friends. Of course, my family, it's been an overwhelming feeling. They have my back. It is a former Olympic canoe racer who was among those arrested, revandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

U.S. Attorney Piro moved to drop the charges against him last week, acknowledging the damage was due to a flawed renovation. But President Trump has sharply criticized Piro and wants her to revisit the decision. But, in six states, head to the polls, tomorrow, to his day, Connecticut, Vermont, Alabama, South Carolina, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, the demands of massive data centers casting a shadow

over the elections at the Imperial Stammer key three ports. The giant windowless buildings use a lot of power and face growing bipartisan opposition. It is able to cross a partisan coalitions in a way that a lot of other issues can't. Amanda Litman is the founder of Run for Something, which works with Democratic candidates for state and local office.

People are bringing it up to them, so they really are responding to what they're hearing from voters.

I think it is the most tangible physical representation of the threat that AI feels like

it's making in people's lives. A recent Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose a data center being built in their community, Tamer Keith and PR news. And you're listening to MPR news. Columbia's president says the priority is to save trapped people of a lot of data as

Perella is facing his first major crisis following that powerful earthquake that struck Western

Columbia Monday. He was just sworn in last week. The video shows rescue workers, police, and volunteers searching for survivors shoveling debris by hand. Dallas, Perella says preliminary reports indicate at least 111 people are dead and nearly

90 inch or dozens of buildings collapsed in the quake. In Thailand, three days after a high school student killed at least eight people in himself, a former member of Parliament in the same province as allegedly killed a government employee over a business dispute, Michael Sullivan reports from Chiang Rai. Former Nontaburi MP Chalong Rai-Rong was arrested after allegedly going to the provincial

administration organization office and shooting its president, Tong Chai, and Prasur dead. Police say the former MP then called a local online media host in the middle of a live broadcast and admitted to the shooting. Both police and Mr. Chalong said the incident involved the dispute over money owed to him.

Thailand is already dealing with the aftermath of the Friday shooting at Tep Serene School in Nontaburi. The country's deadliest mass shooting in four years. Thailand has one of the highest gun ownership rates in Southeast Asia. For NPR News, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai.

The financial markets in Asia mixed in Tuesday trading oil prices steady after jumping five percent Monday amid the ongoing standoff between the U.S. and Iran. This is MP R news. 50 years ago, Congress set out to protect coal miners from black lung disease. Today, it's 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 sicker faster.

Listen now to the Sunday story from the up first podcast on the NPR app.

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