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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The Trump administration has announced one hundred fifty million dollars in aid for Venezuela after two powerful earthquakes struck the country Wednesday evening. NPR's Fatma Tanis reports.

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The State Department says it's deploying search and rescue teams from Virginia and California to Venezuela to help locate survivors of the earthquake. The Virginia team will include eighty people and six dogs. Local authorities say they believe hundreds of people are still stuck under rubble. The one hundred and fifty million from the US is for aid groups and United Nations agencies. The State Department has also enlisted help from the Pentagon for logistics and delivery of urgent medical and other supplies. According to the UN, nearly eight million people in Venezuela were already in need of humanitarian support as the country has been in deep political and financial crisis for many years. Fatma Tanis, NPR News.

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Venezuela's health minister says the confirmed death toll is now two hundred thirty-five. Some forty-three hundred people were injured. US Men's National Soccer Team