More than 350 people are dead, and over 1,300 remain missing, after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a Himalayan river valley on the border of Nepal and Tibet. It’s the region’s worst disaster since a devastating earthquake over a decade ago. The mudslide swept through the Lhende Khola river valley just after 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, washing away homes and burying entire villages. Water levels along the river at one point rose by as much as 27 feet over half an hour. This is Subina Tamang, whose husband remains missing.

Subina Tamang: “In our last conversation at 7:30, he said he was sending two kilos of walnuts and two kilos of chocolates for the children. He also sent some instant noodles for them. And he said he would be coming soon, but he didn’t. … All I want is for my husband to come back to me safely in one piece. I don’t want anything else.”

Hundreds of foreign tourists are among the missing. The mudslide washed away at least 19 bridges, complicating rescue efforts. The disaster was triggered by a 2,000-foot-long chunk of ice that broke from a glacier high in the Himalayas. Climate scientists warn the region is warming much faster than the global average, leading to the rapid retreat of glaciers. Nepal has lost nearly a third of its total ice volume over the last three decades.

The Pentagon said it carried out strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, killing four people. The latest attack brings the number of those killed, according to the Pentagon’s own figures, to 227, across 68 strikes that began almost a year ago. Once again, the Pentagon provided no evidence the boat was carrying drugs. Amnesty International has condemned the strikes as extrajudicial killings, a form of murder, saying they amount to crimes under international law.

The chief of Iran’s nuclear program says inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency will not be allowed to visit nuclear sites in Iran that were bombed by the U.S. and Israel. On Wednesday, Mohammad Eslami, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, criticized the IAEA for failing to condemn the strikes, and said the U.N. agency was being used by Iran’s enemies as an intelligence-gathering tool.

Mohammad Eslami: “The IAEA is pressing to visit the damaged sites under pressure from the United States and Israel. The reason for that pressure is that they want to see what their military operation has done to those sites.”
On Wednesday, President Trump told Al Jazeera he has “no time schedule” for when he expects to return to the negotiating table with Iran, adding, “I’m not in a hurry.”

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russia on Wednesday, just hours after CIA Director John Ratcliffe departed Moscow following an unannounced meeting with Russian intelligence officials. Following Ratcliffe’s visit, a wave of Ukrainian strikes killed 12 people inside Russia and in the Russian-occupied Donbas region of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russia’s military targeted nine Ukrainian cities overnight, with officials in Ukraine reporting hundreds of ballistic missile and drone attacks. The barrage damaged residential blocks, a school and a medical facility in Kyiv and killed a 78-year-old woman in Zaporizhzhia.

The attacks came as Russia’s Foreign Ministry has warned it could target British military assets, after the U.K. supplied Ukraine with long-range missile technology.

Maria Zakharova: “We have repeatedly warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could target any British military facilities and equipment, whether in Ukraine or beyond. Those responsible for war crimes, including those committed against our country’s civilian population, will be punished in accordance with their actions.”

Meta has reached a landmark settlement with attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories over claims it intentionally designed its social media platforms to addict children. Under the settlement, Meta must pay over $17 billion in penalties over a decade. It also agreed to block overnight access to its sites, while setting a two-hour limit for anyone under 18, and will silence most notifications during school hours. This is Victoria Hinks reacting to the settlement. Her daughter, Alexandra Hinks, died by suicide at age 16.

Victoria Hinks: “I think as long as they enforce it properly — and I’m glad that the judge asked, 'How are you going to actually do this?' Because lots of times it’s just a lot of talk. And they need to actually have independent people come in. I think it’s great. I think this is three times now. With trial in L.A., they were found liable. In New Mexico, they were given a huge fine. And then, now this, they settled.”

We’ll have more on Meta’s landmark $17 billion settlement agreement later in the broadcast.

Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy is calling on the Trump administration to halt immigration raids in the city of Danbury, following reports that ICE has been arresting parents at school bus stops. Murphy wrote on social media, ”ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents.” Senator Murphy joined other elected officials in Danbury Wednesday at a rally of immigrant rights groups demanding accountability.

Sen. Chris Murphy: “Congress should not authorize a single additional dollar for ICE while this illegality continues.”

The advocacy group Danbury Unites for Immigrants counted 25 people detained Wednesday, 16 on Monday and at least nine on Tuesday. The group says detentions occurred at day-laborer gathering spots and a Latino grocery store and that two of its legal observers were shoved by officers, with one hospitalized with injuries from pepper spray.

Five-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father Victor Martinez Nieto, who were detained by ICE in Austin, Texas, earlier this month, were deported to Mexico on Tuesday. According to the family’s lawyer, Liam’s father had begged officers to let his son go as they were arrested on their way to soccer practice. His father had wanted his son released to his mother, but that option wasn’t provided to him.

A judge has blocked Minnesota’s bid to extradite Christian Castro, an ICE agent accused of firing his gun and wounding a Venezuelan man, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, in the leg. Castro remains in custody in Texas. Under Texas law, Castro could be released from jail today. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said that he will not abide by Minnesota’s extradition request.

Alex Pretti’s family is calling for accountability from the Trump administration seven months after he was fatally shot by Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis. Pretti’s parents said they found out their son had been shot while watching the coverage of the shooting on the news. His mother said she recognized her son’s jacket and sunglasses from the footage. Two CBP agents have been charged for use of force, but they have not been charged for the killing. Alex Pretti’s parents spoke to ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Susan Pretti: “My shock is, is that he was murdered, and no one has given us the complete truth or anyone has been held accountable. And it’s been seven months.”

Michael Pretti: “There was more effort in vilifying him than pursuing justice, investigating this.”

A federal appeals court has declined to dismiss charges against Democratic Congressmember LaMonica McIver, who visited the notorious ICE facility Delaney Hall as part of routine congressional oversight. She was charged with interfering with an arrest in May 2025 outside Delaney Hall. She is the only congressmember indicted by Trump’s Justice Department. Earlier this year, Democracy Now! spoke to Congressmember McIver about the charges.

Rep. LaMonica McIver: “The process is the punishment. This is what they’re doing. They’re doing this with your taxpayer dollars, prosecuting a member of Congress for doing their job. It doesn’t cost them anything, because they’re using taxpayer dollars to do so. But I think what it does is it inserts fear in other leaders to step up and hold the administration accountable. It’s intimidation. It’s bullying. And they’re just using me as a tool and a prop to do so.”

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the U.K.-based direct action group Palestine Action and two other organizations, designating them as “specially designated global terrorists.” Palestine Action’s members have broken into factories that produce arms for Israel’s military, where they sabotaged equipment. The U.S. sanctions follow a U.K. appeals court ruling last June that found the British government acted lawfully when it banned Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori responded in a statement, “The fact that Trump is now taking inspiration from Britain’s repression of the movement for Palestinian freedom exposes just how dangerous this ban is and should be a wake-up call to anyone who cares about free speech and civil liberties.”