As NPR's senior national correspondent, Linda Wertheimer travels the country and the globe for NPR News, bringing her unique insights and wealth of experience to bear on the day's top news stories.
An Australian billionaire and the head of a Paris fashion label plan to burn trash for energy in Fiji. The Pacific nation's U.N. ambassador says the idea risks spoiling a “beach paradise.” HPR’s Derrick Malama has more in the Pacific News Minute.