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Emergency crews are searching for hundreds of people, including at least 65 Americans who are
“missing after catastrophic flash flooding in Nepal and Tibet.”
NPR's de-hodeed reports at least 270 people have been killed, and officials mourn the death toll is expected to rise. I spoke to Reals Lodi, who heads the World Food Program there, and he says, "Workers at this point are just trying to dig people out of the mud, but roads have been washed away, so the government's deploying helicopters."
"It's all happening in the mountainous region where road access is always challenging,
but under these circumstances, it's impossible." Lodi says they estimate about 10,000 households have been badly affected by this disaster, but he says that number will go up." NPR's de-hodeed reporting, experts say the flood was caused by a glacial collapse and debris flow.
President Trump will travel to Texas today to boost Republican Senate candidate Ken
“Paxton, and P.R.'s Tamry Keith reports Trump will headline a fundraiser in Houston”
for the State Attorney General's campaign. "A GOP source tells NPR that Ken Paxton will attend the R&C fundraiser. Ken Paxton is the scandal-plugged Republican candidate for U.S. Senate that President Trump endorsed in a bitter primary earlier this year.
As of the last campaign finance reporting deadline, Paxton had less than $2 million cash
on hand. Compare that with the Democratic nominee, James Taloreco, who had a war chest of more than $20 million. That said, Republican campaign committees and allied superpacks, including the President's MAGA Inc, have hundreds of millions of dollars at their disposal to try to boost Republican
candidates this fall. Tamry Keith and P.R. News.
“Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal is in the Ukrainian capital, as Congress prepares”
to take up new sanctions against Russia next month, and P.R.'s Polina Litnyoba reports from Keefe. Senator Blumenthal says making sure Ukraine gets into septemusals it needs to defend itself from Russian ballistic missile attacks is part of what he calls his home work. Alone with Advocate and for letting Ukraine use starlink on Russia's territory.
Talking to reporters and Keefe Blumenthal said he hoped that CIA director John Radcliffe used his recent trip to Moscow to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin against a possible escalation in the war with Ukraine. "I'm hoping hopeful that very hopeful that the message was, don't do it, forget about it." President Zelensky has said he believes Russia is preparing to mobilize an additional
300,000 troops, Polina Litwinova, and Bjernews, Kyiv. This is NPR News in Washington. A Japanese artist nickname the priestess of Polkadot's has died. The artwork of Yoy Kusama was shown at major museums in galleries around the world. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has this appreciation.
"Yoy Kusama put Polkadot on everything, clothing, paintings, giant pumpkin sculptures.
She once wrote, "Our Earth is only one Polkadot among a million stars in the cosmos.
She was also obsessed with the concept of infinity. Her infinity rooms have floor to ceiling mirrors and twinkling lights that seem to go on forever." Kusama grew up in Matsumoto City. She suffered from mental illness and hallucinations. As a little girl, she would draw the visions and sketchbooks to, as she put it, help ease
the shock and fear. Kusama moved to New York and thrived in the city's avant-garde scene. In the last years of her life, Kusama lived in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. She continued to create art in a studio nearby, Elizabeth Blair and PR news. General Mills says its removed artificial colors from all of its U.S. cereals, including
Lucky Charms and Tricks. The company is replacing them with colors from sources, including fruits, vegetables, and spices. General Mills says it plans to remove synthetic colors from the rest of its U.S. retail products by the end of 2027. The company says 90 percent of its retail products in the U.S. are and now made without them.
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