Lye from the NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Skivone.
State Department official Tommy Pigut says about 85 Americans are unaccounted for five
“days after a catastrophic landslide and flood along the border of China and Nepal.”
Nine Americans have been evacuated safely. Officials in Nepal say close to 800 people have died in that disaster. Pigut says the U.S. has been in communication with rescue coordinators. As a Nepal government, we're coordinating with them on what they need.
We have activated from the State Department $3.6 million in emergency humanitarian assistance.
That includes up to three months of emergency food for up to 10,000 flood-affected households. So we have immediately activated that. We actually have the first U.S. assistance on the ground already to address this humanitarian disaster. Pigut spoke on ABC's this week.
He says the State Department has boosted consular assistance with U.S. embassies in Beijing and Catman do working around the clock. A powerful El Nino climate pattern is now developing which could affect weather around the world.
“A new study finds climate changes intensifying the effect and P.R.'s Lawrence summer reports.”
El Nino is a natural climate pattern that occurs every few years. It happens when the water in the tropical Pacific Ocean gets abnormally warm, which can affect weather across the planet. Some regions get more rain while others get drier. The El Nino developing now could be a record breaker.
Researchers at the University of Michigan and others looks at whether these kinds of El Nino's are getting more common. They used fossils of coral reefs to put together a historical record of El Nino's over the past thousand years. They found since the Industrial Revolution, El Nino's are now 36% stronger, which could
mean even greater impacts. Lawrence Summer and P.R. News. A human rights organization says dozens of migrants have been deported by the U.S. to the Central African Republic. Michael Colokie has more.
According to the advocacy group, human rights first, the flight carrying the deportees arrived
in the Central African Republic's capital of Bangui yesterday. The deportees include nationals of Afghanistan, Iran, Nepal, and Nicaragua. A lawyer of one of the deported migrants said that his client is an Afghan man, whose brothers collaborated with the U.S. military, adding that his client was granted protection by a U.S. court against deportation to Afghanistan.
The Trump administration has previously approached the number of countries to accept the deportees who are citizens of other nations. According to the New York Times, data compiled by refugees international and human rights first shows that 23,000 people have been sent to countries they are not originally from. When P.R. News are Michael Colokie.
Native American leaders are calling on the U.S. to refer to Lake Ontario by its original name, my-in-dot-nation chief, Billy Francis, the Wendot language, gave Ontario its name, which means the lake is big, or the lake is beautiful. President Trump's executive order, the lake's name, be changed to Lake America, has now been reflected on Google Maps.
This is NPR News in Washington. President Trump says he's going to be at the Pentagon on September 11 this year and will therefore miss Memorial Events at Ground Zero in New York City, and P.R. is Emily Fang explains. Asked why he was not going to New York to mark the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Trump responded "because I'm going to the Pentagon."
Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Trump had wanted to give a speech at 9/11 Memorial Events at Ground Zero itself, where the World Trade Center towers once stood, a report Trump denied. Since 2012, event organizers there have not allowed elected officials to give public remarks.
Instead, Trump will head to the Pentagon in Virginia after traveling back from the GOP midterm convention in Texas, where he and Vice President JD Vance will be keynote speakers. Emily Fang and Pernu's Washington. Europe's biggest annual street festival, the Nodding Hill Carnival, is taking over London streets today, and PR's Robbie Griffith says to Tails, "On the Caribbean Flavor event,
now in its 60th year. The Nodding Hill Carnival started small, with its roots in the thousands of people from Britain's former colonies in the Caribbean, who arrived soon after the Second World War. 60 years later, the carnival is grown into a huge annual street party at the end of August,
with around 2 million people expected to attend across the busiest days, Sunday and Monday.
The carnival includes a parade of vehicles, accompanied by dances in striking costumes, multiple sound systems stages, and organized paint fight and a steel band competition, Robbie Griffith's MPR News London. I'm Louis Skivone, NPR News, Washington.
“Country singer and rapper Shibuzzi wants us to remember our history accurately.”
Cowboy image, you know, we tend to think that was just a white man, you know, on a horse with a cowboy hat, but you know, one in every four cowboys were black. On the Sunday story from up first, Shibuzzi talks about his latest album and the Black Roots of Country Music. Listen to the Sunday story in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast.
