This NPR News segment delivers urgent updates on a deadly glacier-triggered flood in the Himalayas, sweeping social media reforms by Meta to protect youth, NVIDIA's record AI-driven earnings, the death of artist Yayoi Kusama, and SpaceX's plan for a massive new spaceport in Louisiana.
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