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But delegates from the state of California and other states are at COP30 anyway.

Laura Clivens of member station KQED reports.

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Disability rights activist Alice Wong has died.

The MacArthur Genius Grant winner died yesterday of an infection in San Francisco, according to her friend and fellow activist Sandy Ho.

Wong was 51 years old.

NPR's Chloe Veltman has this remembrance.

Senator John Fetterman is home from the hospital two days after a fall related to a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.

He'd been on an early morning walk, felt lightheaded and fell, and was hospitalized in Pittsburgh.

Today, in a social media post, the Pennsylvania Democrat thanked well-wishers.

He posted a smiling photo of himself with an iced coffee, saying after 20 stitches, he had fully recovered and is home with his family.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.

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military officials tell NPR the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, will arrive in the northern Caribbean tomorrow amid increasing tensions with Venezuela.

The U.S.

has conducted multiple strikes on boats in the region, saying they were ferrying drugs trafficked from Venezuela.

President Trump is cutting ties with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The president posting on social media announcing he's withdrawn support from the Georgia Republican and PR's Ava Pukach reports that Greene suspects the rift came from her support for the release of the Epstein files.

Ava Pukach, NPR News, Washington.