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Chapter 1: What happened in Caracas after the recent earthquakes?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Rescue work is getting underway in Caracas after back-to-back earthquakes have brought down buildings in the Venezuelan capital. Officials are reporting a growing number of injured and the U.S. Geological Survey is warning of the potential for heavy casualties. Reporter Maria Gratterall is in Caracas.
When the earthquake started, I was in my house and it was like super hard. It was, I mean, before I had not experienced something like that. You could see how the walls were moving and everything was moving around too. So we, as far as we could, we got out of the apartment and we went to like to a square and
Northern California also hit by a cluster of quakes today. The U.S. Geological Survey says the epicenter was near the rural town of Willits. There were no immediate reports of major damage. President Trump on the National Mall this evening, kicking off what's called the Great American State Fair, a 16-day event celebrating the nation's 250th birthday.
Ten days from now, our country will celebrate one of the most monumental milestones in human history. We will mark 250 years of glorious American freedom.
Trump headlined the opening night after several musical acts dropped out, citing concerns that it had become politicized.
Trump's campaign-style speech capped a day in which he held a tense Capitol Hill meeting with congressional Republicans following Tuesday's Senate passage of a war powers resolution on Iran, and after Trump canceled a signing ceremony for a bill aimed at making housing more affordable. saying he wants Congress to first pass legislation that would require proof of citizenship for all voters.
Also, a federal judge dealt a setback today to the administration's elections agenda, barring the president from implementing most of his first executive order on elections. Today marked four years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
Since then, the number of abortions nationally has actually increased each year as medication abortion becomes easier to access. Here's NPR's Selina Simmons-Duffin reporting.
The internet, telemedicine, and sending abortion medication in the mail have profoundly shaped abortion access in post-war America. Residents of the 13 states with abortion bans have continued to access abortion using those tools and by traveling across state lines. Republican lawmakers continue to push for more abortion restrictions.
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