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Emergency crews in Nepal pulling a young girl from a collapsed building near the border
with Tibet.
“That rescue is one of thousands underway across the region as Nepal turns to other countries”
for help finding people still missing after catastrophic flash flooding. Our minister, Shishir Kenal, says international support is being brought in to some of the hardest hit areas. We have requested specific and specialized assistance from our friendly neighbors, which such support can further strengthen our search and risky efforts in areas such as opening
the tunnel where people have been trapped. Teams from India, China and South Korea have been sent into disaster zones to assist Nepalese crews. The death toll stands at more than 750 across Nepal and neighboring Tibet and more than 3000 are still missing.
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration's effort to restrict mail-in voting to move forward for now without ruling on whether the policy itself is legal. NPR's Maralias and reports that would require states to use approved voter lists before sending out ballots.
“The Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of the case.”
They just said that the people who were suing state governments haven't been hurt yet so it's too early for them to sue. So for now, the Trump administration can go ahead with its efforts to curtail mail-in voting. And Trump issued an order that tells the federal government to create lists of approved voters.
In other words, they're called state citizens list. If you're not on the list, you don't get to have a mail-in ballot. Trump for a very long time has believed that mail-in voting hurts Republican candidates more than Democrats and it's prone to cheating and corruption. Even though he himself votes by mail, he just did in the Florida primary, many Republican
voters vote by mail. That's MPR's Maralias in reporting. "Thelkin heavy-souring into the Florida sky here."
“NASA's newest space telescope is on its way to its new home about a million miles from”
Earth. Central Florida Public Media's Brendan Burn reports at launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on the hunt for dark matter, dark energy, and planets outside our own solar system.
Astronomers believe dark matter is the glue that holds galaxies together, and dark energy is responsible for our universe's rapid expansion. Observations from the Roman Telescope should help scientists better understand them, and what they find could change how we understand the cosmos. Scientists also hope to discover over 100,000 exoplanets, planets outside our own solar system,
since operational Roman will be back over one terabyte of data per day. For NPR News, I'm Brendan Burn in Orlando. This is NPR News in Washington. President Trump's decision to rename Lake Ontario, Lake America, is drawing more ridicule from Canada.
Ontario premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard yesterday declaring Lake Ontario now and always.
The latest job comes as tensions remain high between the U.S. and Canada over in escalating trade dispute. A major bank in Israel says of all sever its working relationship with Palestinian banks this week. Now six members of the U.S. Senate are urging Israel to maintain those ties, warning it
could trigger a "dangerous collapse in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank," and PR's Emily Fang reports. The six Democratic senators include Elizabeth Warren on the Senate's Banking Committee, Jack Reed, a ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, and Mark Warner on the Intelligence Committee.
They warned of a "near-term crisis" because come Tuesday, one of only two is really
banks that provide a critical financial services lifeline for the West Bank to the outside
world, will cut its services to Palestinian banks. The second is really bank and said it will cut its ties in October. As banking and certainty has led to a cash crisis in the Palestinian territory, compounding a dire economy, and the senators wrote, "creating the risk of a black market." Emily Fang and peer news Washington.
Hurricane Karina has formed in the Eastern Pacific with maximum sustained winds of 80 miles an hour. The category one storm is about 820 miles southwest of Mexico's Baja, California, Peninsula. This is NPR News, and Washington. On the Sunday story from up first, Shibuzi talks about his latest album and the black
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