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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The United Nations Climate Conference in Azerbaijan ended this weekend with a deal that would triple the amount of money rich countries will offer to developing nations to help address the effects of climate change. The deal was immediately praised by wealthy countries in attendance.
But NPR's Jeff Brady reports on sharp criticism from developing countries. Under the new agreement, wealthy countries will boost their current pledge to developing nations from $100 billion a year to $300 billion. With private and other funds, the goal is to get to $1.3 trillion a year by 2035. India's representative objected, saying the final passage had been stage-managed. But European Union Commissioner Vopka Hoekstra praised the deal. And we feel it is ambitious.
It is needed, it is realistic, and it is achievable. Next year, countries will meet in Brazil, and by then, most will have released new plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Jeff Brady, NPR News. President-elect Donald Trump has named a longtime ally to lead the Agriculture Department. Trump says he plans to nominate Brooke Rollins to be Agriculture Secretary. She's a president of the Trump-allied America First Policy Institute.
Hundreds of people showed up to a high school in East Los Angeles this weekend to get help becoming American citizens, part of a larger effort by the school district and the city to protect people from deportation. That's been promised by the incoming administration of Donald Trump. In Pierce, Kelly McEvers reports. Refugio Sanchez has citizenship. Like an estimated 800,000 other people in L.A., his wife, Cheryl Sanchez, is undocumented.
They say people are panicking. I don't want to be separated from my kids, my family. Refugio and Cheryl Sanchez have three kids. They say people they know on social media are already talking about how there could be checkpoints and how they might get rounded up. The family signed up to get legal help for Cheryl through a nonprofit. School board officials say there will be more events like this in the coming weeks.
The L.A. school district and the city recently voted to become sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants. Kelly McEvers, NPR News, Los Angeles. In Northern California, wine country residents in Sonoma County got a chance to check on their homes this weekend following that three-day deluge of rain from that atmospheric river storm. Matt Windrum is the county's division fire chief. We have never seen this kind of thing in anybody's recorded history.
experience or and certainly in my personal experience this is by far the most rain in a short period of time that we've had. The city of Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County where weather officials are calling the foot of rain that fell there once in a thousand year event. The flooding is being blamed for two deaths in Washington state. Tens of thousands remain without power mostly in the Seattle area and you're listening to NPR News.
Authorities in Pakistan have put the capital under a security lockdown ahead of protests by supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Highways leading into Islamabad have been blocked and mobile and internet services have been partially suspended. Khan has been in prison for more than a year. His supporters are seeking his release.
New research shows a growing number of young people worry about the stigma attached to seeking mental health assistance. NPR's Windsor Johnson reports that even with open conversations, some members of Gen Z still feel ashamed or embarrassed when it comes to asking for help. Data from the Girl Scouts of the USA show that 50 percent of Gen Z youth worry about being judged for receiving mental health treatment.
Sarah Keating is the vice president of girl experience at the organization. She says parents can take a number of approaches when it comes to talking to their kids. Modeling how to talk about how you feel and doing it really honestly opens up very important conversations with your children. It's important to start
immediately because then when the time comes that your child needs to talk to you about something that's a little more serious, they know how you're going to react. While Gen Z has been called the most depressed generation, members of this group are more likely to seek out mental health counseling or therapy than older generations.
Windsor Johnston, NPR News. The Associated Press reporting that game show host Chuck Woolery has died. He was 83. A cause of death is not clear. Woolery later became a right-wing podcaster. The AP quotes his podcast co-host as saying he died at his home in Texas. This is NPR News.
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