"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivoni.
Rescue efforts along the Nepal China border continue into a fourth day after devastating
“floods and monthslides erupted without warning, leaving more than 600 dead in almost”
3,000 missing. Drabha Garmachana's with World Vision International A Christian Relief Group, she tells NPR's all things considered that accessibility to affected communities is a huge problem as they battle rough landscape and seasonal rain. We have sent two trucks of food, but on the side of the river, it was totally
under-timbered. Accessibility is the main biggest challenge as the moment. On the other hand, we are in the midst of heavy months in season. Authorities are still finding survivors close to 4,000 people have been rescued so far. President Trump says the United States has reached a major oil agreement with Venezuela,
and PR's Julia Simon reports that the deal would give American interest control over
“65 billion barrels of Venezuela and oil and would involve development of 17 oil fields.”
In a post on true social, President Trump says that the new deal "more than doubles" American oil reserves and "will substantially lower gas prices for all Americans." But while these are proven oil reserves in Venezuela, there's a lag time of years between producing that oil and getting it to market. Many of the details of the deal are unclear, but what is significant oil experts say is
that the U.S. would have majority control of the oil reserves. Experts tell NPR, it's a sign that Venezuela is backtracking on state control in the industry and laying out the red carpet for U.S. oil companies, Julia Simon and Pierre News. President Trump's former teleprotter operator has reached a deal with federal regulators over his betting on the president's words, and Pierre's Bobby Allen reports the former
White House staffer confessed to insider behavior.
“Gabriel Perez was President Trump's longtime teleprompter operator, federal investigators”
say starting late last year, he would put money down on yes or no bets on whether the president would or would not say something at an event. Now federal authorities say Perez will give back around $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 fine. Military personnel company insiders and others have been caught abusing insider information for profits on prediction markets, calcium, and poly-market.
But Perez is the first known White House official who used access to the president to
profit on so-called mention markets. The president's son Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to calcium poly-market. He also is a financial stakeholder in the companies, Bobby Allen and PR News. Russian strikes in and around the capital of Ukraine continued into the weekend in the deadliest attack of the war this year, at least 37 died in the Buca District where an attack
ignited a fire that spread through homes and buildings and included a munitions warehouse a local official says at least 50 buildings were damaged. This is NPR News in Washington. Voters and Iceland cast their ballots today in a referendum on whether to restart negotiations with the European Union about joining the block, as mean Nicholson has details.
Iceland first applied to join the European Union in 2009 in the wake of the financial
crisis that hit the island hard, talks stalled amid political concerns about sovereignty loss and fishing rights, but the current referendum comes amid a push to bolster maritime security in the Arctic and North Atlantic in response to President Trump's threats to take over Greenland and amid concerns about Russian naval movements in the region. Iceland is already part of the shengen zone of visa free travel but at a time of global
instability, Brussels is eager to show that the 27-nation union is able to grow rather than shrink as it has done since Brexit, from Pian use, I'm Esmunicalsson in Berlin. National International Airport may be heading for a name change, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced he would support re-naming the airport for Dolly Parton, the Nashville Airport Authority considers the question next month and in Nashville tonight.
The granald oppree will honor Dolly Parton and her vast impact on country music with a special tribute. She died at age 80 after a brief battle with cancer. Some ticket sale proceeds will go to her imagination library the project has provided hundreds of millions of free books to children. I'm Luis Skivone and PR News, Washington. 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. That's right. Big for me. Mr. Penguins, big for me. I have another sound of Antarctica, that's a reporter trying to interview a penguin. We'll explain on Planet Money Summer School, listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your
