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The death toll after a powerful 7.4 earthquake in Colombia has risen to 111.
“Local officials say they expected that number to rise.”
People remain trapped under collapsed buildings in several cities in western Colombia, including in the city of Cali with more than 2 million residents. And Pierre'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 Colombian capital Bogota.
The USGS said the temblore 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. This video on local TV from cities in the region, so collapsed, building, and major damage
to a regional airport.
The quake comes more than a month after 2 strong back to backwards quake's hit neighboring
Venezuela, killing more than 5,000 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. Carry con and PR news, Rio de Janeiro.
“In Wisconsin, a democratic socialist is seeking to capture the democratic nomination for”
governor today. She hopes to follow in the footsteps of like-minded candidates who want in other states, my on-silver from Member Station W. W. M. reports. Francesca Hong's progressive platform has generated buzz among young voters and others, drawn to her message.
Like Timmel Hack. There is the moratorium on data centers. There's Medicaid for all universal child care. She brings all the things that we need to make Wisconsin a great place again. Hong is a 37-year-old state lawmaker, bartender, and chef, and daughter of Korean
immigrants. Some of her previous statements have sparked controversy, including about defunding the police and canceling Thanksgiving. She sought to distance herself from those remarks.
“Wisconsin's outgoing Democratic governor has endorsed Milwaukee County Executive David”
Crowley. He says he's concerned about Hong's chances against the likely Republican nominee, Congressman Tom Tiffany. "For MPR News, I'm Ian Silver, and Milwaukee." President Trump has signed another executive order aimed at trying to up and the way
U.S. children are vaccinated, and Perez Robstein has that story." Trump's new executive order calls for reducing the number of childhood vaccines recommended by the federal government. The executive order also calls for breaking up a shot that is now given as a single vaccination for measles, mums, and rebella into separate shots, and for the Justice Department to
press your states to reduce the number of vaccines required for school. The mums will likely be challenged in court, like previous attempts to change childhood vaccinations. The executive order was welcomed by vaccine critics and denounced by many public health experts, Robstein and Pyrenees.
It's NPR. New data out of Congo suggests that the latest Ebola outbreak is the fastest spreading on record. Roiders reports there are at least 4,000 cases so far. The illness has killed around 2,000 people over the last three months when it was officially declared, but health officials suspect the illness sickened people much earlier in a remote
province of Congo. Employees in China displaced by artificial intelligence have recently seen courts and arbitration panels rule in their favor, but workers remain anxious, and Perez Jennifer Pack reports from Beijing. This summer, economic graduate Eloin Wu took an internship at an AI startup in Eastern
China and says she was shocked. I didn't know how advanced AI was already, she said I feel very afraid. Several courts have ruled that employers adopting AI cannot shift the burden to workers, but China and the U.S. are locked in an AI race, says Eli Friedman, a professor of global labor and work at Cornell University.
You can't say that we want to dominate these industries in the future and then start clutching your pearls. Yes, it's tough to find a stable job in China's sluggish economy, Jennifer Pack and PR news Beijing. In Thailand, the Prime Minister has suspended the approval of firearms permits after
at least 7 people were killed by a teenage boy at a school near Bangkok. Dozens were injured and some remain hospitalized from the Friday shooting, a preliminary investigation indicates the shooter allegedly was influenced by social media content involving violence. This is NPR 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 MPR app.
