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American rescue teams pull infant alive from rubble in Venezuela days after devastating twin earthquakes
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American search-and-rescue teams pulled an infant alive from beneath the rubble in Venezuela days after the country’s devastating earthquakes, the U.S. Department of State said Saturday.
The State Department shared video on social media showing U.S. personnel pulling the infant from the rubble as rescue crews continued searching for survivors more than 72 hours after two powerful earthquakes struck the South American country.
The rescue came as emergency crews raced against time to locate survivors before the critical rescue window closes.
«Against impossible odds, hope endures,» the State Department posted on X.
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American search-and-rescue teams rescued an infant trapped beneath the rubble following this week’s deadly earthquakes in Venezuela, according to the State Department. (Department of State)
«American search and rescue teams rescued an infant from beneath the rubble following the earthquake in Venezuela,» the post continued. «Every life saved is a victory.»
The White House also shared the video, calling it «America at its best.»
«Thank you to the American search and rescue teams providing assistance in Venezuela,» the White House wrote.
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Rescue workers search through the rubble three days after earthquakes struck Catia la Mar, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Round-the-clock rescue efforts have continued since magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck Venezuela’s northern coast Wednesday.
As of Saturday evening, officials said the death toll from the twin earthquakes had reached 1,430.
Earlier Saturday, officials reported that 243 people had been rescued.
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Rescue personnel with a rescue dog assist in rescue efforts after earthquakes hit the country, in La Guaira, Venezuela, Saturday. (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)
According to The Associated Press, more than 68,000 people remain missing across the country.
Aid groups consider the first 48 to 72 hours after a disaster to be the most critical window for finding survivors, though access to food and water can extend that period.
Venezuelan officials said 17 flights carrying more than 1,600 rescue personnel had arrived Saturday to assist with search-and-rescue efforts.
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Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department’s international urban search and rescue team (USA-2) prepare to leave for Venezuela, in Pacoima, Calif., on Thursday. (Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images)
Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams from Virginia, California and Florida were dispatched to Venezuela on Friday to help search collapsed buildings.
According to the State Department, the three USAR teams include 312 personnel and 18 canine teams, including firefighters, physicians, structural engineers and canine search specialists. The teams also deployed more than 200,000 pounds of specialized rescue equipment.
The Los Angeles County team includes 73 members equipped with concrete-breaking equipment and specialized listening devices used to detect survivors trapped beneath debris.
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Responders search for victims in a demolished building in Caracas, Venezuela, after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake and a 7.5 aftershock struck the region. (Jesus Vargas/Getty Images)
Rescuers have fanned out across La Guaira, where the worst destruction occurred, and parts of Caracas, where families and volunteers have spent days pulling survivors and victims from the rubble.
The United States has pledged $150 million in emergency assistance and support for international relief organizations responding to the disaster.
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the State Department for additional information on the rescue.
Fox News Digital’s James Cirrone, and The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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France has recorded more than 5,700 excess deaths during its historic summer heat wave, marking the country’s deadliest heat-related toll in more than two decades, Public Health France announced Wednesday.
Between June 17 and July 2, the agency expected 15,910 deaths but instead recorded 21,674. The difference — 5,764 excess deaths — was 36% higher than what would have been expected.
During the heat wave, temperatures climbed well above 104 degrees Fahrenheit in many parts of the country, Public Health France said.
«This unprecedented event, characterized by its early onset, intensity, and duration, exposed almost the entire population to extreme heat during a period that was still largely dedicated to school and work activities,» the agency said.
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Tourists enjoy cooling off at a public water fountain in Paris, Friday, June 26, 2026. (Christophe Ena)
Deaths from all causes increased across hospitals, private homes and nursing homes during the heat wave.
The agency’s analysis included people ages 15 and older, with mortality increasing beginning at age 45. Adults 75 and older accounted for roughly two-thirds of the provisional death toll, representing at least 3,719 excess deaths.
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The Paris region was hit hardest, recording 1,999 excess deaths — more than 80% above what would have been expected without the heat wave, according to the agency.
Public Health France said 2026 recorded the country’s highest excess mortality linked to a heat wave since 2003. The National Institute of Health and Medical Research estimated that roughly 15,000 more people died compared to the usual mortality for that time of year.
Tourists cool off at a public water fountain in Paris, Friday, June 26, 2026. (Christophe Ena)
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This year, the hottest days occurred on June 24 and June 25, when the national average temperature reached 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Peak temperatures also climbed above 104 degrees in many areas.
More than half of the excess deaths — about 56% — occurred during or immediately after the most intense stretch of the heat wave between June 25 and June 27.
Officials also said more than 10,000 excess deaths were reported across Europe during the peak of the heat wave, though the preliminary figures are expected to be updated in the coming weeks.
People cool off in a fountain in Paris during a major heat wave. (Abdul Saboor/Reuters)
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According to The Associated Press, funeral directors in Paris said they were inundated by the surge in bodies awaiting burial or cremation, with some mortuaries reaching capacity and turning down new arrivals.
Health officials noted that the excess mortality estimate includes deaths from all causes that occurred during the heat wave. The figures remain provisional and will continue to be refined in the coming weeks.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Vulnerable Democrats flip on women’s sports vote after opposing similar bills as midterms loom
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Several vulnerable House Democrats are breaking with their party on men competing in women’s sports as Republicans continue to hammer the issue ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Reps. Shomari Figures and Terri Sewell, D-Ala., joined Republicans in voting for an amendment to the annual defense policy bill Tuesday that would bar biological males from participating in women’s sports in Department of War-run schools.
The vote marked a notable shift for both Alabama Democrats, who opposed similar legislation as recently as last year, and comes as Republicans’ redistricting efforts have scrambled their re-election prospects.
Figures now represents one of the GOP’s top pickup opportunities after Alabama’s newly drawn congressional map added more GOP voters to his district, dramatically increasing the difficulty of his re-election bid. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), House Republicans’ campaign arm, added the freshman lawmaker to its target list last week.
Congressman Shomari Figures, D-Ala., speaks at a press conference with other members of the House Democratic caucus in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Sewell’s Black-majority seat anchored around Birmingham remained largely unchanged, though she also bucked Democratic leadership on the amendment.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and 202 other Democrats voted against the measure. All Republicans present voted in support.
Both lawmakers voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in 2025, which barred federally funded schools from allowing biological males to participate in girls’ and women’s sports.
The reversal comes as transgender issues continue to divide Democrats, with public polling showing broad opposition to transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
A New York Times/Ipsos poll conducted in 2025 found that nearly 80% of Americans opposed biological males competing in women’s sports. Roughly seven in ten Democrats or Democrat-leaning respondents agreed, according to the survey.
Protesters against transgender athletes competing in women’s sports gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 13, 2026. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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Republicans sharply criticized the Alabama Democrats’ votes, arguing the move reflected political necessity rather than a genuine change in position.
«Out of touch Democrats Shomari Figures and Terri Sewell are desperately trying to hide their far-left views now that it’s politically expedient, but it’s too little too late,» NRCC spokesman Reilly Richardson told Fox News Digital.
«Alabamians know Figures and Sewell support Democrats’ radical agenda of allowing men to compete in women’s sports and will hold them accountable at the ballot box in November,» he continued.
Figures, however, argued his views on transgender participation in women’s sports have been consistent and pointed to a 2025 amendment vote restricting transgender athletes that he supported in a statement to Fox News Digital.
«As I have said before, I do not believe that men should be allowed to participate in women’s sports,» Figures said. «I voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act because that bill would have created an open season for pedophiles to conduct sex checks of young girls, with no safeguards.»
Proponents of the measure disputed during floor debate that the legislation would put girls at risk.
Fox News Digital reached out to Sewell for comment.
Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C., and Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, also voted with Republicans in favor of the Mace amendment.
The three Democrats, who are all vulnerable to GOP challengers, frequently cross party lines to support Republican-authored bills, though Davis voted «present» on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who sponsored the amendment, argued the measure was intended to protect women’s sports.
Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., speaks during a Congressional Black Caucus news conference in the U.S. Capitol on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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«Men are not women. Men will never become women. Yet male athletes are stealing medals, invading locker rooms, and putting girls in the hospital, all in the name of gender ideology,» Mace said Tuesday. «Our NDAA amendment would end this nonsense.»
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George Harrison estableció un criterio claro frente al uso de las cajas de ritmos: consideraba que la tecnología dejaba de ser útil cuando la grabación perdía la sensación de músicos tocando juntos en tiempo real, según reflejan sus declaraciones y decisiones de producción.
Esta postura se evidenció durante las sesiones de grabación del segundo álbum de los Traveling Wilburys, el supergrupo integrado por Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne y el propio Harrison. Según el sitio oficial de la banda, el proceso buscó preservar una identidad de “hermandad” creativa, priorizando el trabajo conjunto por encima de la lógica industrial de la época.
En ese contexto, Harrison expresó una opinión contundente sobre el uso extendido de las cajas de ritmos en los estudios de los años 80 y 90: “Cualquiera que pueda usar esas patéticas cajas de ritmos en la medida en que lo hacen, no nota lo malas que suenan”.
El eje de su argumento fue la defensa del pulso humano, la interacción entre intérpretes y la imperfección como elementos esenciales en el resultado final.
Para Harrison, la caja de ritmos no operó como un simple reemplazo del baterista. Funcionó como un atajo que uniformaba la música y dejaba que se impusiera el “sonido” del dispositivo por encima del carácter del intérprete, según recogió el sitio Something New.
El planteo se ordenó alrededor de una idea de grabación en conjunto. Harrison valoró la convivencia de líneas rítmicas, armónicas y melódicas que se ajustan sobre la marcha, con microvariaciones que no responden a un cálculo matemático, en línea con análisis de medios internacionales especializados.
En esa lógica, el baterista no sostuvo solo el tiempo: definió respiraciones, acentos y climas. La caja de ritmos, en contraste, fijó un patrón y estabilizó lo que, para Harrison, debía conservar margen de imprevisibilidad.
Something New remarcó que el debate no fue nuevo en esas décadas, pero en su caso se volvió más visible por la coexistencia con una trayectoria marcada por la curiosidad instrumental y la incorporación de recursos no convencionales. Su frontera apareció cuando el resultado dejó de sonar a interpretación y empezó a sonar a procedimiento.
La posición de Harrison cobró relevancia por el tipo de banda en la que se expresó. Traveling Wilburys no se presentó como un proyecto de laboratorio digital, sino como una reunión de compositores e intérpretes con identidades reconocibles, según The Beatlefan Blog. De acuerdo con estos análisis, la dinámica del grupo incluyó instancias de creación con guitarras acústicas en un entorno doméstico, con un método que priorizó la espontaneidad.
En ese contexto, la discusión por las cajas de ritmos se abordó como una decisión sobre cómo debía “sentirse” una grabación. Harrison defendió una toma como ejemplo del ideal opuesto al automatismo: “Escucha ‘New Blue Moon’, que fue interpretada en vivo con cuatro guitarras acústicas y un baterista que tocó todo lo que está ahí”, señaló. Y concluyó con una evaluación directa: “¡Suena bien!”.
Esa defensa del “sonido humano” con su percepción de la música popular de fines de los 80, cuando el uso extendido de máquinas y “trucos” de producción podía empujar canciones hacia una estética publicitaria.
“Hasta Prince, que me gusta, está empezando a sonar como esos comerciales de televisión, porque cualquiera puede usar esas cajas de ritmos y cajas de trucos”, sentenció Harrison en entrevistas recogidas por Something New.
La coherencia de esa postura se reflejó en decisiones de producción y en el tipo de instrumentación que Harrison privilegió en su obra. Brainwashed (2002) fue el álbum que dejó en un estado avanzado antes de su muerte y que completaron Dhani Harrison y Jeff Lynne.
El proyecto se presentó en medios internacionales y bases de datos musicales como un trabajo terminado de manera póstuma por su entorno inmediato, respetando la idea general de lo que Harrison había empezado.
En ese marco, la defensa de instrumentos tocados por personas —batería real y guitarras acústicas, según el sitio oficial de la banda— mantuvo la misma convicción que explicó su rechazo a las cajas de ritmos: una grabación debía conservar el rastro del intérprete.
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