India’s Race To The Moon; Puerto Rico Governor Won’t Resign After Scandal; A $540,842 Dialysis Bill

Plus, parents are sometimes the problem when it comes to tech use. [NPR] by Korva Coleman and Jill Hudson First Up [Equifax will pay up to $700 million in a proposed settlement over its 2017 data breach.]( Mike Stewart/AP Here’s what we’re following today. Equifax will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach. The [credit reporting agency]( will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach that affected more than 148 million people. India is celebrating the successful launch of its Chandrayaan-2 rocket, which has now started its journey to the moon. It's [India's second attempt to launch the unmanned spacecraft]( that it hopes to land near the moon’s south pole region in early September. It would become the fourth country to land on the moon’s surface, after the U.S., Russia and China. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Sunday that he won’t run for reelection next year, but he won’t resign. [Massive demonstrations in the country’s capital]( San Juan, began after text messages from Rosselló and his staff were leaked, and have been widely condemned as homophobic and sexist. Hong Kong continues to be plagued by violent demonstrations. About three dozen people were hurt at a train station Monday when an unidentified group of attackers set upon a group of [pro-democracy protesters and bystanders]( some of whom were commuters. Don't have lunch money? One Pennsylvania school district recently sent a letter home with students warning parents in about 40 families that if they didn’t pay their child’s school lunch debt, they could be removed from the home and [placed in foster care](. Yukiya Amano, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has died at age 72. His death leaves a vacancy at the top of [the United Nation’s nuclear monitoring body]( just as tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions appear to be reaching a critical threshold. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Daily Good Parents are sometimes the problem when it comes to tech use. [Road inspections in Mexico intercept this white tiger cub concealed in a van.]( Katherine Streeter for NPR The mobile tech revolution is barely a decade old, and it brings special challenges to parents and caregivers. Most of us feel like we're failing, at least at times, to manage the competing bids for attention that come from work, kids, partners and our digital devices. And parents of young kids pick up their phones an average of almost 70 times a day — often to escape a stressful parenting moment. [Here's how to stop using your phone]( as a pacifier, for you or your kids. --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Listen First came kidney failure, then came the $540,842 dialysis bill. [Sovereign Valentine and his wife, Jessica, wait as a dialysis machine filters his blood. Before finding a dialysis clinic in their insurance network, the Valentines were charged more than a half-million dollars for 14 weeks of treatment.]( Tommy Martino/Kaiser Health News A 50-year-old man needed dialysis, and there wasn’t a single provider of the lifesaving treatment in his insurance network. The out-of-network clinic he went to charged him more than half a million dollars. His physician wife sent us this bill. (Listening time, 6:44) [▶ LISTEN]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Podcast Of The Day One man’s story of himself — and of Hong Kong. [Protesters march in Hong Kong against the extradition bill.]( Anthony Kwan/Getty Images In 1960, when he was 12 years old, Jimmy Lai snuck out of China and into Hong Kong by hiding in the bottom of a fishing boat. He got a job in a factory, and by the time he was 21, Lai was running a factory. Today, he's one of the richest people in Hong Kong. He's also one of the most vocal critics of the Chinese government, and a major figure in Hong Kong's protest movement. Planet Money looks at the 200-year history of China and the West — a story of communism, colonialism and capitalism. (Listening time, 22:01) [▶ LISTEN]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The Picture Show In India's Assam state, river island residents face uncertainty over citizenship. [Soleman Nessa's husband took his own life after authorities questioned his citizenship. "It was the month of Ramadan. The sun was rising. We were boiling rice and when my son went to the kitchen to get something, he saw my husband hanging there. He screamed. People from all over the village came and brought him down," Nessa says. The family had exhausted its savings to confirm Nessa's citizenship.]( CK Vijayakumar for NPR Assam borders Bangladesh and has long been home to migrants from there. For decades, the Indian government has been conducting a special census in Assam, called the National Register of Citizens, to try to figure out who is a valid Indian citizen — and who might be an undocumented migrant. Some 4 million people, many Muslim and impoverished, were excluded from a 2018 official register of citizens. Photographer CK Vijayakumar visited Assam [to learn more about the challenges]( they face. --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Video How microexpressions can make moods contagious. [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell listens as President Trump speaks to reporters following a meeting at the White House in October 2017.]( NPR Feelings seem to spread contagiously between friends, partners or groups. Therapists call this emotional contagion, and they have found that emotions can easily leak out of a person's face in very measurable, consistent ways called microexpressions, which are fleeting, involuntary expressions of feelings that last a fraction of a second. But [why are we so easily influenced]( by one another's emotions? A new video from Invisibilia explains what's going on. --------------------------------------------------------------- We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions and feedback: [dailynewsletter@npr.org](mailto:dailynewsletter@npr.org?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback) Enjoying this newsletter? Forward to a friend! They can [sign up here](. Looking for more great content? 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