Anderson Cooper 360

At least 188 people have died and more than 1,500 are injured after a devastating pair of earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday, according to the country’s National Assembly president. Anderson speaks to César Jiménez, a resident of Caracas who survived the earthquakes, along with his family and pet dog. He also works with the aid group Project Hope in Venezuela and toured some of the hardest-hit areas today. Plus, a year-and-a-half after fire devastated the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, jurors have deadlocked on charges against the alleged arsonist.
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Today, the President threw down the political gauntlet with his own party. He was set to sign a landmark bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped to run on this fall. However, less than two hours before the planned signing, President Trump announced he was canceling the signing until he gets action on his controversial elections overhaul legislation. Plus, the latest on the deadly heatwave hitting France and other parts of Europe. 
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It's a primary night in America once again, for South Carolina, New York, Maryland, and Utah. In New York, two-term Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman is facing former city official Brad Lander, who is one of three Democratic House candidates running tonight with the endorsement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani. And South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson will win the state’s Republican gubernatorial runoff, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, defeating Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Plus, two reporters whose access inside the Trump White House has now gone into the remarkable and incredibly revealing book "Regime Change." The authors Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan speak to Anderson.
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According to a source familiar with the matter, Bill Pulte, the acting director of the Office of National Intelligence, the intelligence agency set up to help prevent another 9/11, has begun mass firings.  
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New diplomatic fallout from the president's longstanding habit of claiming people begged him for something. He told a TV outlet that Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni begged him for a picture with her at the G7 summit. The Prime Minister said that's "completely fabricated." Plus, a new report from the New York Times on just how far Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is going in his campaign against diversity in the military.
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