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Rescue operations in Nepal are entering a fourth day with more than 2,000 people still
“missing after catastrophic flash floods along the border with China.”
NPR's D.A. Hadid reports more than 500 people are dead as the search continues." The number of missing included more than 500 in Tibet, according to Chinese authorities, but it was Napoleon authorities who dramatically increased numbers of missing in their territory. The New York Times reported authorities raised the number after some 900 people were reported missing from more than a dozen hydropower projects.
Further downstream, footage shared by Napoleon Media Shredman and women checking lists of wounded posted outside hospitals. Flood survivors are Beatry Gourung told NPR produce some a meter boundary that she and her family raced up a hill on this scooter to escape. Human-induced climate change is rapidly accelerating glacier and snow melt in the Himalayas
at the peril of downstream communities. D.A. Hadid and Pian use. "That a reserve chair Kevin Warsh says inflation remains too high, but he's offering little
“guidance on where interest rates are headed.”
In a speech at Jackson Hole Friday, Warsh argued that Fed has become too predictable about its plans, allowing financial markets to react to its forecasts instead of the broader economy. NPR Scott Horsley reports he also warned that could leave the Fed less able to respond quickly when the economy shifts."
He argues the more the Fed talks about its interest rate plans, the more financial markets react to that and what they think the central bank is going to do rather than what's happening in the broader economy. Warsh also warns that the Fed risk tying its own hands. For example, Warsh thinks the Fed was slower to respond to inflation coming out of the
pandemic than otherwise would have been because the central bankers had telegraphed their forecast so much. "That's NPR Scott Horsley reporting."
“President Trump's former teleprompter operator has reached a deal with federal regulators”
over his betting on the president's words. NPR's Mopi Allen reports the former White House official confessed to insider behavior and will now have to pay a fine. 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 polymarket.
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 polymarket. He also is a financial stakeholder in the companies, Bobby Allen and PR news. This is NPR. Federal investigators and Washington State have released a report on a fatal chemical spill
at a paper mill earlier this year. It shows past inspection, cited safety concerns over the chemical tank, rep ruptured, killing 11 people. Eric Newman from Oregon Public Broadcasting reports. This initial investigation from the U.S. chemical safety board has been in the works since
the spill happened May 26th. On that morning, some 900,000 gallons of heated, caustic chemicals known as White Licker spilled when a storage tank failed at the long-view Washington paper mill. The spill killed 11 employees and injured 8 others. The new report shows that 10 months before the incident, safety inspectors told the company
the chemical tank was unsafe and it should be repaired. Those chemicals inside the tank are corrosive to metals and the tank's walls were thinning. The investigation is ongoing. The new report doesn't include consequences, but it provides the clearest picture yet of what happened.
For NPR News, I'm Eric Newman. The State Department is beginning to send some U.S. diplomats back to posts in the Middle East. Americans are still being urged to avoid travel to countries that have been targeted by Iranian missiles and drones during the U.S. is really war with Iran.
The U.S. evacuated diplomats and their families from several posts during the early days of the conflict as Iran's St. American interests across the Persian Gulf region.
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