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The death toll is rising in Nepal two days after catastrophic flooding struck the region,
“at least 469 people are dead and more than 1,500 others are missing, including about 90”
Americans. NPR's D.A. Haddeed reports authorities are warning that a natural dam could give way, triggering, even more flooding. The water's receded from most places, leaving behind mud and debris, but Santosh Pande from the A. Group Oxfam says one of the worst affected areas, Roswa is still
only accessible by helicopter, but because that area is largely inaccessible, it also means that death count is likely to rise further. And now authorities are warning that there might be secondary floods, because there's
still an overflowing lake in the area where experts at the first glacier collapsed,
blocked up the river valley and triggered these major floods. That's NPR's D.A. Haddeed reporting. A federal judge is weighing another effort to put President Trump's name back on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and P.R.'s Anastasia Saluca's reports, a previous court decision said that only Congress has the authority to change the venues' official name.
The Kennedy Center board wants to add President Trump's name on the entry-wave center.
“Is that fundamentally the same as renaming it or is it something different?”
Lawyers for the plaintiff represent Joyce Bady, Democrat of Ohio State, Judge Christopher Arcooper has already ruled that the board does not have the right to rename the living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
Department of Justice Lawyers represent President Trump and other members of the board argue
adding another line of signage to the entry-wave thanking Trump for his planned renovation of the complex is not changing the institution's name. It's not clear yet when Cooper will make a ruling, Anastasia Saluca's and P.R. News. A Trump administration plan to temporarily import more foreign ground beef at a lower tariff rate is getting pushed back from the U.S. agriculture industry and P.R.'s Joe Hernandez
reports the move may do little to bring down the price of beef. 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 tariff rate 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 P.R. News. This is NPR News in Washington. Australia says it will evacuate 2,000 scientists from a research station over concerns about a potential outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus. Christina Cucula reports the facility is located on a remote island territory halfway
between Australia and the Antarctic. The Australian government says an ice-breaking vessel will be deployed in October to extract the scientists from a quarry island in the southern ocean, which has home to thousands of elephant seals. The government says the evacuation is not due to concerns about the physical well-being
of staff, but rather the psychosocial risk of researchers being exposed to mass deaths among seals in the event of a bird flu outbreak. The team arrived on the island in May and was scheduled to remain for one year. Last year, thousands of seals died after being infected by the virus on herd island, an uninhabited Australian territory in the southern Antarctic.
For NPR News, I'm Christina Cucula in Melbourne, Australia. A federal judge has cited with anthropic in its legal fight with the Pentagon. The government labeled the artificial intelligence company a supply chain risk earlier this year, but a judge ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the tech giant for criticizing its position on the use of AI.
The dispute began in February when President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Heggsett accused anthropic of posing a threat to national security. The government is expected to challenge the ruling and the topic of the decision and says it remains committed to working with the government. This is NPR News Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you
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