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The State Department says 90 Americans are still unaccounted for, following devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet.
“Five have been rescued, but an official with one tour group says, "They've had no contact”
with their travelers and guides since the flood's hit. We have the latest from NPR's Michelle Collaman." Himalayan Glacier is one of the groups that runs tours that are popular for Hindus, Buddhists and james, who trek around Mount Kailash in Tibet, managing directors on Kat Pandas as nine Americans were in one of his groups, planning to enter Tibet on the day
of the devastating floods. "So it's been a quite a group few days, and hoping for any sort of positive signs of life or any identification for any of our group members." The State Department says it's providing $500,000 in aid and offered Nepal's search and rescue assistance.
It's also surge consular staffing at the embassy in Kathmandu. Michelle Kailaman and PR News, the State Department. Today marks six months since the United States and Israel went to war with Iran.
“Direct talks between the U.S. and Iran have essentially ground to a halt.”
Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway critical to the world's fuel supply,
and to its strategic weapon. Interest rates might go up as early as next month. That's the takeaway among investors, weighing Fed Chair Kevin Worsh's remarks today at a gathering of economists and central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "inflation is running above our two percent target.
So the Fed's predominant focus, right now, should be on prices." Worsh did not offer guidance on how the Fed would act going forward. He says investors have become too reliant on that instead of making their own economic assessments. Worsh added that the central bank should be able to act without feeling constrained by
market expectations. President Trump signed an executive order to begin creating a U.S. space academy in
“Pierce, Franco Ordonia's reports Trump announced the new academy, while visiting NASA's”
Johnson Space Center in Houston. President Trump traveled to Houston to honor members of the Artemis two crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Before handing out the medals, he announced his plans to create a new training academy for military and civilian engineers.
"It's called the U.S. Space Academy. That's a big deal." Trump said the new school would be modeled after the military academy in West Point. The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and other top military academies. "They're all great, but we're going to have now a space force.
We're going to have an academy for what the people in this room love the most." The President said a location for the new academy would be chosen soon. That's in Pierce, Franco Ordonia's reporting. It's NPR News. If you've noticed the late Dolly Parton's music playing just about everywhere, well, it's
very well, might be. One of Dolly Parton's men-neighits, number of people who've streamed audio and video
featuring the Queen of Country, rose from two and a half million Monday to 35 million Tuesday
as the world learned she had died at the age of 80. The industry data and analytics company, Luminate, says in the U.S. alone, streaming went from 1.2 million to more than 26 million. Now, Nashville's airport could become Dolly Parton International. There's been a growing campaign to rename BNA for the late singer-songwriter.
Mariana Bucca Yavneversation WPL and reports Tennessee's governor announced he's working with the airport to make the name change possible. Changing Nashville's airport to Dolly Parton International technically goes against the airport policy, which only allows a rededication to someone who's made contributions to the airport or the field of aviation.
But the airport is pushing forward with the change anyway.
It's expected to cost around $10 million to make it official.
The push to rename Nashville's airport after Dolly Parton isn't new. Democrats offered it as an alternative to a measure that would have named the airport after Donald Trump. But since her passing, the possibility of Dolly Parton International Airport is inching closer to reality.
For NPR news, I'm Mariana Bucca Yavne in Nashville. It's NPR. This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway. We've smuggled products in the North Korea, and now we make it to our seventh continent, Antarctica.
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