NPR News: 06-27-2026 6AM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Rescue operations are entering a critical stage in northern Venezuela, three days after powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck the country. NPR's Fatima Tanis reports on the growing international response as rescue teams continue searching through the rubble.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has promised a big, fast, and effective response from the US, a one hundred and fifty million dollar commitment to faith-based aid groups and United Nations agencies for the response. The US is also deploying a disaster assistance team and two search and rescue teams from Virginia and California to help find survivors in the rubble.

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That's NPR's Fatima Tanis reporting. Authorities say more than nine hundred people have died. Nearly three thousand others were injured. The US hit Iranian military facilities along its coast on Friday. NPR's Tom Bowman reports the attacks were in retaliation for Tehran hitting a cargo ship on Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz with a drone.

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The Central Command statement said American warplanes attacked Iranian missile and drone storage locations and coastal radar sites. This comes after Iran attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship, the Ever Lovely, exiting the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast, where the US has set up a pathway and cleared it of mines. Iran insists that ships can only sail through the routes it has set up closer to its coast. Nearly