"Lie from MPR News," I'm Lakshmi saying.
As many as 500 hydropower facility workers may be trapped in tunnels buried in mud from
“catastrophic floods six days ago on the Nepal China border.”
The figure could be higher, a private sector association that represents power companies said at least 900 workers were unaccounted for, at 12 hydropower projects damage in the floods in Nepal's Resua and Nua caught districts. The overall death toll has surpassed 950 with thousands more people still unaccounted for since the historic deluge.
The vast majority of the victims were in Nepal and pierced in for pack reports China has sent more help. "More Chinese rescue teams have arrived at the worst hit area, the Jilong Raswab border checkpoint, and when they got there it was packed in mud, as shown on state broadcasters CCTV, some men had to crawl to avoid sinking into the mud.
The constant rain doesn't help. Rescue teams on both sides of the border face risks of further floods, landslides, and avalanches. Jennifer Pack and PR News Beijing.
“"Heat," it contributes to about 1,700 deaths in the United States every year.”
And PR's Alejandro Perrinda reports on a new investigation from NPR and bossing university that finds a number of deaths as likely much higher. The official numbers are calculated using tags for heat in a death record. But it can be hard for doctors or corners or medical examiners to tag heat in those records if they're not actively looking for it.
For example, say someone has heart disease. During a heat wave, they're already stressed heart has to work harder to pump blood that they're skinned to cool down. So the heat might end up actually triggering something like a heart attack, but because heat doesn't leave a mark, the doctor in the ER only sees the heart attack.
PR's Alejandro Perrinda reporting. The Metropolitan Museum of Arts says an exhibit featuring John Galliano's work is cancelled over the British designer's past anti-Semitic and racist remarks. We have the latest from Jeff London. It was to be a nine-month-long celebration of Galliano's designs by the Met's Costume Institute
with Galliano the honored guest at the Met Gala, to kick it off. But the disapproval was immediate and fierce, Galliano was convicted of an anti-Semitic hate crime in a French court in 2011, after two incidents at a bar in Paris in a video which circulated where he said "I love Hitler" among other remarks. He was fired from Deorin underwent rehab.
The Met's director Max Holline said, "Following thoughtful discussions with John Galliano, we have together decided not to proceed with the exhibition. For NPR News, I'm Jeff London in New York." International soccer star Lino Massie says he is retiring from Washington, "This is NPR News." The online prediction market, platform call she says, "It has banned former Congressman
George Santos for life after determining the Republican likely engaged in insider trading. The company's decision is tied to the allegation that Santos bed against his attendance at the State of the Union address, and turned a profit of more than $17,000. Santos had repeatedly mentioned his intention to attend, couch he put the odds of Santos's attendance at close to 75%, minutes into President Trump's speech, Santos posted on X, he
was delayed at the airport. Santos was convicted of fraud and identity theft in 2024 and 84 days into his sentence, Trump ordered his release.
About 54 million children are either back in school or soon on their way and their facing
changes related to screen time and AI, more from NPR's near-visha. Many kids had to accept last year that they could no longer access their cell phones at school. This year, some schools are going further. Cutting back on screen time altogether, including tablets and laptops for classwork. Schools are also grappling with the role artificial intelligence should play in class.
Some districts are experimenting with the technology. For example, one district in Ohio has tested an AI chat bot that serves as a tutor. David Lawrence is superintendent of Dayton Public Schools.
“"I think when the history is written, they'll say that, hey, they were really cutting edge”
innovative and head of the curve in the interest of children." Also this year, fewer kids may have access to free meals at school, and parents are opting kindergarteners out of childhood vaccines in record numbers. "That's near-visha reporting, it's NPR News." "Country singer and rapper Shibuzi 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, Shibuzi talks about his latest album and the Black Roots
of Country Music. Listen to the Sunday story and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcast.
