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More than a dozen people are still unaccounted for, in the Grand Canyon, in the aftermath
“of flash flooding, along the Colorado River Saturday, at least two people have died.”
Chris Clemens of Member Station K and AU and Flagstaff Arizona spoke to NPRs here and now." Right now, the American Red Cross is holding a staging area if you will at a cafeteria on the South Rim for those who have been affected for evacuees. There's another staging area in Grand Canyon Village, and rescue operations are underway as we speak, and folks have already said officials have said this morning that the rainfall
that we're seeing today and probably the rest of the week is going to impact their efforts. That's K and AU's Chris Clemens. Rescueers in Nepal are racing to reach hundreds of flood victims, believe trapped in tunnels, at hydropower sites. The death toll in Nepal and China surpasses 950 with thousands more still unaccounted for. The U.S. has entered into a partnership with Venezuela that would give
“the U.S. control of much of its oil reserves.”
NPRs, Rancordonia, as reports the deal is raising new questions, which is what it means for democracy in Venezuela. When the U.S. captured, then Venezuela and leader Nicholas Maduro, the administration outlined a three-phase strategy for Venezuela. It started with stabilization, then reviring the economy, and finally transition to new elections. Benjamin Cadan, who led the Venezuelan portfolio
in the Obama White House, says the deal throws that all into question. And potentially changes Washington's priorities for Venezuela.
On that long list of U.S. considerations, democracy, we believe was always the kind of guiding
principle for U.S. politics, and now it has fallen in either very low down that list or off that list entirely. Cadan said Trump is signing a long-term deal that largely depends
“on the current regime's staying in power, Franco, or Adonias, NPR News.”
Soccer, great, Lionel Messi, has announced his retirement from international soccer, saying that he has nothing left to give and that the time has come. John Bartlett has details. Messi retires as Argentina's most cut player, the country's top scorer, and a world cup winner with the national team in the 2022 tournament in Qatar. He originally retired from international soccer in 2016, before reversing his decision, and continuing to play for La Albe
Celeste as Argentina's national team and known, and descended to near immortal status in his home
country when he lifted the world cup six years later, Argentina's first title since 1986.
Messi won the ball on door, soccer's most coveted individual honour, a record eight times, as well as dozens of trophies during his club career with Spanish Giants Barcelona, and French champions Paris Saint-Germain. 39-year-old Messi will continue to play for Inter Miami in Major League Soccer. For NPR News, on John Bartlett. This is NPR News.
Jersey and Lindsey Clancy's murder trial will resume deliberations tomorrow morning. They're deciding whether the Massachusetts woman should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. The defense argues she had suffered postpartum psychosis. The prosecution says Clancy knew what she was doing. House lawmakers have returned from their recess to vote on a bill to avert a government shutdown,
which is at risk of happening just before the midterms. The stop gap would extend funding through December. New research disclosed that last week's American Chemical Society meeting showcase a potentially edible cookie made out of plastic. Here's NPR's aridanial with details. Microbes excel at converting raw ingredients into new materials. A team of researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbendale gave disintegrated plastic and ground-up corn husks and stocks
to genetically modified yeast, which processed it into a protein paste. A 3D food printer then turned the slurry into small cookies. The Hirojaya Kodi is a synthetic microbiologist. There is a non-plastic embedded into this cookie. So we are not eating plastic. Nor has anyone actually eaten the cookie yet. There are still safety tests to be done and the process is pricey and uses a lot of energy. Still, the researchers see potential for
a future in which cookies could be made from plastic waste and outer space or disaster zones. Aridanial and PR news. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR news in Washington. This season on Planet Money Summer School, we have drilled for oil in Norway. We've smuggled products in North Korea and now we make it to our seventh continent at Harktaka. That's right. Big for me. Mr. Penguin, speak for me.
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