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Certain rescue operations continue after catastrophic flooding in parts of Nepal and Tibet,
at least 353 people have been killed.
“NPR's de-hodeed reports more than 1,300 others are missing, including dozens of American tourists.”
The floods were triggered off to part of a glacier collapse into a valley blocking a river. It would have built up fast some 30 feet in 30 minutes, and it tore through carrying ice and rock from the glacier, bearing people and places under mud for miles downstream. 25-year-old Santa Tommong survived. She taught producer Mamita Bandari that her brother carried their elderly grandmother and
they fled to high ground after they heard flood warning sirens. "So many people lost their lives, everything is good, make your Lord, my family's make immunity."
Look as say, roads of collapse, so the government is deploying helicopters to find survivors.
Experts say the Himalayas are warming quickly, because of human-induced climate change, and that's causing glaciers to weaken and collapse, threatening downstream communities. D-hodeed NPR news.
“President Trump is facing growing pushback from members of his own party over some of his”
economic policies. His tariffs on Canada and a plan to increase beef imports are drawing criticism from Republican senators, including some facing difficult elections this fall. NPR's Deepa Shiveram reports. With the tariffs on Canada that led to some Republicans who were running in some really
tight elections, like senators, Susan Collins and Maine, to distance herself from Trump say that these tariffs are a mistake. And Trump recently also announced that the U.S., this is a different move, would import more beef from abroad. That was an effort to try and lower the cost of beef, which has increased in part because
of the war. That's NPR's Deepa Shiveram reporting.
“A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments today on plans to renovate the Kennedy Center”
and return President Trump's name to the building. NPR's Anastasia Saluca's reports, the board, has threatened to tear down the venue. In legal filings ahead of the court hearing, the board called the Living Memorial to President John F. Kennedy, a quote "embarrassment to the nation's capital" and suggested building an "outdoor amphitheater" on the site instead.
The board is also attempting to add Trump's name on three places at the center, including twice on the entryway. In the statement NPR, the Kennedy Center press office called the threat of a demolition quote, "a hypothetical scenario." The hearing is part of a federal lawsuit filed by Rep. Joy Spady, Democratic Ohio, against
President Trump and the Kennedy Center's Board. Most board members were chosen by President Trump, who is the center's chairman, Anastasia Saluca's and Pianus. This is NPR. Actor Tim Curry has died at the age of 80.
The British Foreign Artists was known for a range of memorable characters on stage in screen, including one that inspired a cult following, as NPR's Alice Wolfley reports.
With his powerful baritone voice and big expressive eyes, Tim Curry was celebrated for his
offbeat, often villainous roles in films like Clue, Annie, and Muppet Treasure Island. But he will be most remembered for his outrageous performance in the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The Rocky Horror Picture Show went on to be a global cult phenomenon, infamous for roudy and runchy audience participation.
A stroke in 2012 ended Curry's stage and screen career, but he continued to work as a prolific voice actor. Alice Wolfley and P.R. News. Space X plans to build what it says will be the world's largest space port in southern Louisiana. The company says that will invest $100 billion in the launch complex.
The facility will be designed to support thousands of starship launches a year, and will include its own power and fuel production. Space X expects the project to create about 3,000 to write jobs over the next decade. Construction is expected to begin next year on the 125,000 acre side along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. I'm Windsor Johnston, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
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