"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor-Johnston.
Searching rescue efforts are continuing around the clock three days after catastrophic flooding
“and mudslides devastated communities along the Nepal China border.”
More than 600 people are confirmed dead and thousands of others remain missing, including dozens of Americans, and PR's Jennifer Pack has the latest from Beijing. To reach the worst affected area, the G-Long Raswa border checkpoint, Chinese rescue teams have had to go on foot. One group accompanied by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, arrived Saturday morning, only
defined vast stretches of mud. Suddenly, they spot a car and tree branches poking out. Is anyone there the rescuers call out? They must work fast, they risk facing further floods, landslides, and avalanches.
It's the same challenge over in Nepal.
Uma Tapa with the Charity World Vision tells NPR severe weather and blocked roads are limiting aid distribution. Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing.
“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing growing pressure about the government's”
response to rising measles cases as students head back to school, and PR Solina Simmons stuff and reports of former health secretary is urging him to do more. Kathleen Sebelius served as health secretary under President Obama. She said the fact that secretary Kennedy is holding events about school lunches instead of raising public awareness about the dangers of measles is a choice.
Doing anything else seems to me a very intentional refusal to confront both the spread of measles throughout the country, but also the effectiveness of vaccines and a call to actions for parents to get their kids vaccinated. Since measles is extremely contagious and can cause blindness or even death, Selina Simmons Duffin and PR News.
Joy deliberations resume Monday and the trial of a Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023. Deborah Becker from Member Station, W. B. U. R. reports attorneys for Lindsey Clancy are
“seeking what's known as the insanity defense.”
The trial has ignited a national conversation about post-partamental health. The defense says Lindsey Clancy was experiencing post-partum psychosis, a psychiatric emergency.
Psychiatrist Dr. Aruj Kamal Header says diagnosis is critical and new moms should seek help
if they feel something is wrong. There is a dangerous myths conception that the mom has to be hallucinating or hearing voices, but really it's the quieter symptoms that we miss. Header says about one to two of every 1,000 new moms experience psychosis, which is temporary but treatable.
For NPR News, I'm Deborah Becker in Boston. This is NPR. Otters in Iceland cast their ballots today in a referendum on whether to restart negotiations with the European Union about joining the block as me Nicholson reports. 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 Piaon News, I'm Esmericalson in Berlin. Virginia is removing several confederate statues from capital square in Richmond. The effort to remove the monuments began around 2018.
Democratic State Senator Mike Jones says there continued presence at the capital, "Miss represents what Virginia stands for today." "Is this what the commonwealth is about? Is this where we want to direct people to? And it's not."
Statues honoring Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, former Governor William Smith, and Confederate physician Hunter Holmes McGuire will be moved to historic battlefield sites where they can be displayed with additional historical context. This is NPR News. Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you to put the phone down and
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