Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston.
Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck the northern coast of Venezuela last night,
triggering frantic search and rescue operations in the capital of Caracas.
Emergency crews worked through the night pulling survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Journalist Marie Gratterall describes the moment shortly after the first quake struck the city.
I was at home when the earthquake happened.
It was kind of...
Fast but they were super strong.
So you could actually see the scratches on the walls you saw and felt how everything was shaking.
Officials say more than 30 people have been killed with the death toll expected to climb.
Hundreds of others have been injured.
The 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes are the strongest to hit Venezuela in more than a century.
President Trump scored two key victories on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
He helped kill a bipartisan affordability bill and persuaded Senate Republicans
to reject another resolution aimed at limiting his war powers in Iran.
NPR's Franco-Ardonias reports.
He really abruptly canceled a popular bipartisan achievement in Washington that both Republicans and Democrats wanted.
A bill that focuses on one of the most important challenges amazing Americans are facing right now,
and that's affordability.
But Trump was just not having it, saying that his pet issue, this election bill had to be first.