"Live from the NPR News and Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
The State Department says 90 Americans are still missing following devastating floods in
Nepal and Tibet.
“Five others have been rescued, but an official with one tour group says they've had no contact”
with their travelers and guides since the floods hit, and PR's Michelle Kellerman reports." Himalayan Glacier is one of the groups that runs tours that are popular for Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, who trek around Mount Kailash in Tibet, managing directors on Catpondase 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 search and rescue assistance.
It's also search consular staffing at the embassy in Catpondau.
Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department. President Trump awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the crew members of the Artemis-2 in Houston on Friday.
“Houston Public Media's Michael Agonson reports from the Johnson Space Center.”
Trump says the four crew members of Artemis-2 who traveled around the moon and back earlier this year are leading the way for a new generation of space explorers. The certainly what they are when you think of it, fearless explorers. Trump also signed an executive order creating a U.S. Space Academy, modeled after other military service academies.
It will serve both the United States Space Force, as well as NASA at the civilian space flight industry and the attract, train, and graduate the very best of our nation. Trump says he has not yet decided where the Academy will be, and he didn't lay out a timeline for when it will open. When PR News on Michael Agonson in Houston.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warch says inflation remains too high, but he's giving little indication of what that means for interest rates. In his closely watched speech at Jackson Hole Friday, Warch argued that investors have
“become too dependent on signals from the central bank about what it will do next.”
We should not indulge a regime in which market participants are looking primarily to the Fed for their next trade. The economic literature has long described the distorting effects, what it called the Hall of Mirror's Problem. If markets rely, materially on the Fed's guidance, and the Fed relies on market prices,
were more likely to be blinded to new developments. Warch said the central bank should communicate less and leave itself more room to act. He also stressed that the Fed's main focus remains on bringing inflation back to its 2% target. This is NPR News in Washington.
The Trump administration has agreed in court to extend a pause on border related construction in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Cory Cook from Texas Public Radio reports bulldozers plowing through parts of the Park in South Texas have sparked widespread outrage. US District Judge Orlando Garcia heard arguments from attorneys for the people of La Hunza
for preservation and a West Texas outdoor recreation business. The plaintiffs say the federal government lacks authority to build border infrastructure in a national park and that construction threatens archeological and religious sites. The federal government is arguing that Congress gave CBP the authority to build. State Senator Roland Gutierrez is one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
It's my hope that as we move on in the course of the next few weeks, we can continue to put protections in place that keep this damn all out of their backyards. The parties agreed to meet before September 15 to get a clearer picture of construction in the area. I'm Cory Cook and San Antonio.
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge's decision temporarily blocking an executive order that would restrict malin voting ahead of the midterm elections. The appeal filed on Friday comes after a judge in Boston blocked the order for two weeks. The Supreme Court has allowed the administration to continue preparing the plan without ruling on whether it's legal.
The legal fight comes just days before the first states are scheduled to begin sending out
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