And dark after the Bloss to about 50 people were all known near the island at the time $23.00 were rescued but 5 of those have died the police say foreign tourists are among the dead the restaurant accounted for emergency teams have not yet been able to search the island because it's considered to be too unstable the B.B.C.'s Phil Mercer the World Anti-Doping Agency has banned Russia from global sports for 4 years and this is over its widespread doping program Russia is banned from the Olympics from soccer's World Cups and any other sporting events but Russian athletes can still apply to compete if they're able to prove they aren't taking banned substances you're listening to n.p.r. . Israel is thanking a real estate mogul in Switzerland who is donating Nazi artifacts that he purchased the Lebanese born business been says he bought the items to keep them out of the hands of hate groups Naomi's oval office more Adela told the Associated Press that he paid some 600000 euros or about 660000 dollars and I mean it auction for the items which included Adolf Hitler's top hat to Teela said that he initially planned to destroy the items but then decided to donate them they will be given to Yad Vashem Israel's Holocaust Remembrance center and appearance in Jerusalem Sunday said I believe that the Jewish people are the only ones that have the right to decide what to do with the items Israeli president Ruben Rivlin told us that he had shown the world how to fight fascism with his purchase and donation of the memorabilia for n.p.r. News I'm in Tel Aviv the Kennedy Center in Washington d.c. 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News I'm Steve Inskeep And I'm Rachel Martin and this morning I want to tell you about some time I spent with Joe Biden recently we met up with him in Elkader Iowa on Friday this is a little town about an hour and a half outside of Cedar Rapids and a couple 100 people had gathered into this community center to see the former vice president his tour bus is an hour late but no one inside seems to mind what kind of people show up for Joe Biden at this point of the campaign so mostly big fans I do have to say when I was just doing a rough count of this particular group probably a couple 100 folks as I mentioned less than 15 or so were under the age of 50 I got a whole lot of oh we loved you know there was this real sense of familiarity about him I heard more than once he's been around a long time and in this crowd Steve that is not a negative thing people appreciate that experience a lot of them were wearing these no malarkey stickers which is what Biden has named his bus tour which we have to say is not exactly a name that makes you think of the future but it is very Joe Biden. You see great to see so this is the bus the bus it's the marquee So we were with him on the bus this is the 3rd time the vice president has campaigned for president in Iowa he's currently polling 4th in that state behind Bernie Sanders was with mourn and Judge Biden is hoping that a recent endorsement from a former presidential candidate who did well in Iowa might help him and we are not talking about Barack Obama. Let me ask you you recently got an endorsement from your friend Senator John Kerry former Secretary of State John Kerry. There are some within your party in particular younger voters who look to. The former secretary of state and it's a warning for them for 2020 because they think about 2004 because while John Kerry came from behind to win Iowa. He. He still lost the presidential race and he was he was the stabilizing force he was the guy with the name recognition he was going to right the ship after George w. Bush who was at the time fairly unpopular. That's the liberal rap on you right now that a moderate can't beat. Look at all the point show me where the Democratic Party doesn't want to know you don't even like polls Oh I say can't trust the polls that we can't but we just just travel with me travel with me look what's happening look what's modern about my want to make sure everybody has health care I just have a different view than other people do and if you notice the vast majority of people agree with my position on health care degree with my position on education they agree with that and so the idea that there's something that I am moderate one of the things that I wish I had that label when I was running the all the times from the Senate I was a moderate because I was I was always rated as one of those liberal senators the United States Senate. But you're not nearly as progressive on on health care as other candidates because I guess what you're going to find $33.00 trillion dollars in 10 years so I'm not racetrack you are beginning to be a little more honest and. You're looking at now and saying Ok those are for Medicare for all you going to have to raise taxes on middle class you let everybody not answer that question for the longest time. So Steve I should take a moment and just describe the scene here we're both situated on this black leather bench on the bus as it is driving on the highway it's a really small space we're probably only a few inches apart from one another and when I bring up any criticism of the campaign Biden bristles and lose it in to make his point he is especially displeased with a question about his challenge with younger voters a recent Harvard poll shows him with only 18 percent of the vote between people but . The ages of 18 and 29 why do you think there's an enthusiasm gap there is an enthusiasm gap whatever you're talking about I'm talking about a brilliant guy he knew what he wanted to do he knew how to get it done you brought up the ticket so I want to ask each of. And I'm running mate and so I want to ask you about that because Senator Senator. Dole longer in the race and that leaves the debate stage for the next debate in the Democratic primary looking very white although all the people in the states will be white candidates and that is just not as you know that's not representative of the party if you are the nominee can you commit to selecting person of color to be on the ticket or have neither little tiny bit of a problem picking a person of color. Or a woman can you commit to that no I can't commit to that because I know about Vice President you have to have someone who works for you who believes exactly like you do on the strategic notion that you support the reason why the historians are. Having their closest relations really body is we trusted each other completely he was able to give me entire chunks of responsibility I didn't have to report because he knew I knew what he was thinking and you can we know right now that we cannot be but there's plenty of people of color there's plenty of women who are not who would have rather you got senators on I can think of 4 women senators off the bat that would be great vice president so I can think of some I could think of several women who are in fact the last races recently who are completely capable of space and look I'm in a situation where look at my staff I have the most diverse staff from anybody running I've always done this is what the country has to look like the administration should look like the American public. What's happening right now President Obama is in the process of being impeached. Pending. Suggested that they might call you or your son Hunter if you are subpoenaed which you comply Oh I'm not going to let you take the ball here and everybody knows that this is about this is a trumped gambit you play whenever he's in trouble he tries to find someone else to divert attention to Mr I'm. Sure you're suggesting that they would subpoena President Trump these issues will be in the Senate trial but the question is would you comply no. I will not feel what everybody is looking for here and that is to take the eye off the ball everybody knows the issue here is not what I did because no one has proof one. Scintilla of evidence that it is anything other than do my job for America as well as anybody could have done it making sure that we in fact got rid of a corrupt prosecutor who everybody including our allies. Including our allies as well as. The i.m.f. And everyone else has to go I did my job incredibly well even the people and his newest ration of testified to my character testified to my honesty saying While I didn't you know it didn't look good for Hunter Biden to be on the board even if he did nothing wrong the optics weren't good there were former White House seats of yours who tried to warn you about the potential conflicts of interest nobody warned me about it for a potential conflict of interest nobody wanted. The same time George joined the State Department official testified because he raised it you know here is he did not he used. To never heard that once. He has no band but my son and I guess that's why he said because my son was honest. That not the reason why they should have told and the fact of the matter is my son testified to did an interview saying if he looking back on it made a mistake he made a mistake over he did nothing wrong the appearance look bad and he gave folks like Rudy Giuliani any excuse to come up with a trumpery and kind of defense why they were piling to the Constitution his his words speak for them so. I know that you sat down with your family before you decided to run for president this time because I talked with your wife about it and you had a big conversation about the emotional toll that this takes every single time but especially this time this is your 3rd time running for president why do you want this. Number one. I'm not sure I'd be running to if. I think the country is at this point the vice president goes into this very long answer recounting how his grandchildren insist. Good that he ran this time then he goes back in time and lays into President Trump for calling Mexicans rapists and defending white supremacy after Charlottesville and then Joe Biden repeats a line he says a whole lot on the campaign trail that we are in a battle for the soul of this country they're looking for somebody who can actually bring the world back together and get us off this precipice looking for someone who can actually get things passed what good does it do if we cannot reach a consensus on issues relating to health care education climate change dealing with . Assault weapons I think. You mentioned earlier that his experience can be seen as a liability Rachel but you hear him there playing on it as an asset right and you know I talked to several people at that town hall I went to who said listen we just want to be Donald Trump right but that's not the entire Democratic voting bloc I mean to win this very crowded primary Biden has to build a coalition of voters not just those who want to go back to life before Donald Trump but also those who want a vision for the future and they haven't decided if Joe Biden is the guy who has that Ok thanks Rachel really fascinating it's a great video as well which you can watch this interview with Joe Biden npr dot org . This is n.p.r. News. Starting December 9th. Sometime in the last 1000000 years tabby star may have swallowed a planet one of the planets moons survived the encounter though entering its own orbit around the star but the stars heat is causing the moon to evaporate that's leaving a trail of dust around the star as seen from Earth clumps of the dust pass in front of the star periodic like causing it to fade that's the scenario presented by a team of astronomers earlier this year the team was trying to explain the star's unusual flickering at times its light can drop by anywhere from about one percent to more than 20 percent but there's no pattern to the drops that means they can't be caused by the passage of a planet in front of the Star such passages would follow a regular pattern astronomers have proposed several mechanisms to explain the flickering They range from swarms of comets to structures built by an alien civilization the latest idea doesn't settle the matter but several other discoveries may want to stronger for example found a score of stars that fade and brighten erratically just as tabby star does the stars are of 2 main types suggesting there's a common cause for their flickering studies of the entire group could help astronomers find that cause. Another study found a star whose light faded by 80 percent for about a day that star may have been eclipsed by a planet with giant rings just one of the many possible ways to make a star flicker you can find more astronomy news in started magazine subscription information at start a dot org for the University of Texas MacDonald observatory I'm Billy Henry. Support for n.p.r. 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News I'm Rachel Martin and I'm Steve Inskeep How does intermittent fasting affect your health by intermittent fasting we mean people who fast part of the time some skip one meal a day some don't eat it all for several days per week and P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports on a study that tracked what happens when people go hungry for 14 hours per day there are lots of trendy ways to fast some people skip multiple meals some fast a few days a week but Pam Taub a cardiologist at u.c. San Diego says there hasn't been a lot of evidence on which strategies are effective there's a lot of bogus claims out there people telling extreme versions such as to day fasts which can be dangerous Talban her collaborators decided to test a simple and much more moderate approach they asked people to restrict to their eating to a 10 hour window each day we didn't ask them to change what they ate we didn't ask them to change the number of calories that they consumed the only instruction was to stick to the 10 hours so if they ate breakfast at 8 am their last bite of food for the day would need to be eaten by 6 o'clock pm making for a pretty early dinner the participants followed this diet for 3 months and tab says she really didn't expect the results she found we saw a 3 percent reduction in their weight and a 4 percent reduction in the abdominal visceral fat so it is surprising to get these types of results especially since all the participants really did was to stop eating a few extra hours each day it turns out that by shutting off eating early the participants all of whom were overweight and at risk of diabetes ate about 8 percent fewer calories but this alone Todd says is unlikely to explain the weight loss she thinks there may be other factors at play so when you go into a fasting state typically over 10 hours of. Fasting you start to deplete the glucose stores in your body and you start to use fat as your energy source in other words rather than fueling your body on stored sugars you begin to fuel your body was stored fat This study was small Talban her collaborators have a larger and i.h. Funded study underway for now the new findings offer some preliminary evidence that a 14 hour fast can be beneficial when you're constantly giving the body calories you're constantly making your cells work says think of a few extra hours of fasting as a way of giving your metabolic organs some rest Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News. If you are one of the millions of Americans who owns a rescue dog you may not know what breed your pet is since most mutts are combination Well there is a way to find out more about your dog's ancestry with a d.n.a. Testing kit although some vets say don't take the results too seriously here's N.P.R.'s Patti Niemann we're this week let's get to squeaky toy Marine recorders was told her dog Anya was a German shepherd mix and she definitely looks like a German Shepherd only she is lighter in color and much smaller whereas my girl can't give me a shake but when cordless takes Anya out for walks she sometimes hears comments that are concerning this one little boy that even said Mommy look at that lady's walk in a coyote because she is about the size of a coyote she has the same coloring other people said oh she looks like a wolf or she looks like a fox so Courtis decided to find out she went online ordered a d.n.a. Kit swapped on his mouth for saliva put it in a tube mailed it off and one week later what came back was that 88 percent of her is German Shepherd So that tells you that one parent was probably a purebred and the other parent was a mix and they identified it as the hound family so it was like Greyhound blood hound with it definitely not a Fox wolf or coyote it doesn't really make a difference what breed your dog is Dr Angela Hughes of that marriage and that assists with Mars pet care which makes a dog d.n.a. Test says knowing the breed helps you understand your dog better what makes them tick why do they look the way they do why do they act the way they do it helps use with her own dog who turned out to be part Russell terrier and part all stray and cattle dog understanding that that's just how she is hard wired that she needs a lot of exercise and she needs you know certain things that terriers need like you know a quiet dark place to Dens so that she can kind of get away and not feel like she has to be on patrol all the time recognize that she's going to go ballistic at the sight of any squirrel. Those sorts of things and that she's not just trying to irritate me but that's how how she works but these testing kits are also being used to check for potential health problems and vet Mary bioethicists Lisa Moses says this is where the problems come in she's with Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics I want pet owners and that are near Ian's to understand that they should not be using direct to consumer dog d.n.a. Testing to make medical decisions about individual animals Moses says the tests a