"Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dan Runran, devastating floods have ki...
of people in Nepal and Tibet with more than 1,000 still missing among them about 90 Americans,
“NPR's Michelle Keleman has more on the international relief efforts."”
"The head of the UN mission in Nepal, Lila Petersias, says the floods have wiped out 35 bridges and destroyed about 25 miles of roads in Nepal, and that's making humanitarian efforts all the more complicated." "So you have one municipality where it's impossible to reach by road and all the aid is being delivered by the government, by helicopter."
"She says the Nepalese government is deploying temporary bridges and the UN is trying to help
with that. The UN has offered an initial $2.5 million in humanitarian aid for Nepal,
and this was government is pitching in a million dollars more. Michelle Keleman and PR News, Washington," President Trump Thursday signed an executive order that he said will rename "Lake Ontario" as "Lake America."
“The move is the latest in the escalating trade battle between the United States and Canada,”
and what Trump said was his frustration over Canada's trade policies talks between the two nations broke down last week. NPR covered a Kathy Hookle told reporters Thursday the President isn't paying attention to ordinary Americans when it comes to economic issues, and she opposes the President's move to rename the Lake.
"Shayman, then, for electricity, from the real needs that Americans are feeling that we have here in New York, I cost of energy, prescription drugs, utility bills, groceries, and this is what the President spends his time on. Renaming a Lake, those named after our Indigenous peoples, "Shayman." Canada and New York share a 445 mile border with 17 legal land crossings. In administration plan to temporarily import more foreign ground beef at a lower terra freight
is getting pushed back from the U.S. agriculture industry. NPR's Joe Hernandez reports experts cautioned it may not cost cut the cost by very much. The proposal announced by President Trump last week would allow 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to enter the U.S. at a lower terra freight for the next 90 days. Ground beef prices have shot up in recent years, but economists say this may not be enough meat
to produce major savings for consumers such as Andrew Griffith, a University of Tennessee Professor who studies livestock economics. "I don't think he's going to be a dollar in 50 cents. Now, we might see a quarter to 35 cents." According to federal data, the average cost of
a pound of ground beef in the U.S. last month was $6.89, up more than 50 percent in the last five
years. Joe Hernandez and PR news. "Stacks closed higher Thursday on Wall Street, the Dallas and P.N. and the NASDAQ roll-off, it's NPR." Experts say they're divided over a Trump administration plan to roll back a key radiation safety guideline and PR's job from field has more. U.S. regulators require industry to keep radiation exposure, quote, "as low is reasonably achievable, but now they want to do away with that wording. Emily Kaffrey, a health physicist at the
University of Alabama Birmingham, says it makes sense." "Reasonable is too lucy-goosey. How do I
“regulate reasonable? What I think is reasonable is not what my regulator thinks is reasonable."”
Instead, regulators will use a set-dose limit. But Edwin Lyman with the Union of Concerned Scientists warns without a mandate to lower radiation exposure as much as possible. "Ration workers and members of the public could be exposed to higher doses of radiation." The Trump administration is called for the change as part of a push to increase nuclear output for data centers and AI. Jeff Bumpfield and PR news. President Trump is in Houston, Texas, where Thursday night he
spoke at a fundraiser for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who's in a tight race with Democratic State Representative James Talyoreco, Trump endorsed Paxton just days before Paxton defeated incumbent Senator John Cornan at a high profile runoff election. Friday, Trump will visit the Johnson Space Center where he plans to present the congressional space metal of honor to the four astronauts who in April orbited the moon on a test flight of the new
Orion spacecraft. The astronauts, they were the first people to reach the moon since the
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