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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Amy Gajda
NEW DELHI — Multiple landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern India have killed 49 people, and many others are feared trapped under the debris, officials said Tuesday, with rescue operations being hampered by bad weather.
The landslides hit hilly villages in Kerala state’s Wayanad district early Tuesday and destroyed many houses and a bridge, but authorities have yet to determine the full scope of the disaster.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Amy Gajda
Visitors and locals gather each night to watch the Olympic Flame rise above Paris suspended by a huge balloon. But what's really in the cauldron?
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Steve Inskeep |Amy Gajda
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, the executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library. about childlessness in politics.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Leila Fadel |Amy Gajda
Simone Biles and the rest of the U.S. gymnasts compete in the team final. U.S. swimmers are back in the pool, but the triathlon is postponed due to dirty river water.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Ryan Lucas |Amy Gajda
The FBI has shared more of what it is learning about the shooter who tried to kill former President Donald Trump at a rally in western Pennsylvania.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Amy Gajda
Justice Department officials met with law enforcement and residents of Springfield, Ill., after the death of Sonya Massey, who was shot by a sheriff's deputy after calling 911 for help.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Amy Gajda
A divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week that a restaurant is not responsible for a customer’s injury after a bone was found in an order of boneless wings.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Laura Kwerel |Amy Gajda
This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else.
In 2013, Rasha Kowalewski’s mother, Cheryl Suzanne Stephens, was diagnosed with kidney cancer. By 2016, the cancer had spread to Stephens’ lungs and she was admitted to the hospital.
Kowalewski was scared and in disbelief. As far back as she could remember, their relationship had been close.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Ben Giles |Amy Gajda
Arizona’s status as a swing state was cemented the last two election cycles when President Biden won here in 2020 and Democrats swept key statewide races, including a U.S. Senate seat, in 2022.
But Democrats’ share of the electorate is down under Biden — Republicans now hold a nearly 260,000-person advantage among registered voters in Arizona, and hope to use that advantage to reclaim the state for former President Donald Trump, who lost by less than 11,000 votes four years ago.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
boisestatepublicradio.org | Lola Murti |Amy Gajda
Like many Americans, Thomas Guzowski and his wife, Eloísa López, are doing all they can to cut down on their spending as they struggle with inflation.
They even relocated this year to Redlands, Calif., from Los Angeles to decrease their cost of living. But there's one part of their budget they won't compromise on: care for Mali, their 13-year-old shih tzu, and Yaretzi, their 15-year-old terrier poodle mix.
"We're a childless household.
