"Line from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
The annual rate of inflation's gone up, the Commerce Department sat with a new report showing
“the rate of 3.8% last month compared to a year earlier, at a monthly basis prices rose”
4/10% of a percent. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused to temporarily block an executive order from President Trump. It calls for a restricting voting by mail. NPR's Honseelo Wang reports that another judge in Massachusetts is preparing to rule
on the same order in the coming weeks. U.S. District Judge Crow Nichols found it's too early for an emergency ruling that would block Trump's order because the order's main directives have not been carried out yet. This leaves in place, at least for now, Trump's latest executive order that tests the limits of the President's power under the Constitution.
The order calls for the federal government to create lists of adult U.S. citizens in
each state. It also calls for banning the U.S. Postal Service, which is a financial supporter of NPR, delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on those lists.
“Democrats and voting rights groups are good and court.”
The Constitution gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the president to set federal election rules. Since Trump signed the order in March, it's been unclear whether and how it would actually affect voting by mail, which has continued for this year's midterm primary elections. On Zeele Wang, NPR News.
The Israeli military says a hisbola drone, killed in Israeli soldier in northern Israel, and Israel is widening its offensive in Lebanon, here's in Paris, Daniel Lester, and Tel Aviv. The soldier was killed and two other soldiers were wounded in the hisbola drone attack on a military area of northern Israel. The Israeli military is struggling to thwart increasing hisbola drone attacks, which have
killed several other Israeli soldiers in recent weeks. In Lebanon, Israel says it has carried out a wave of attacks on hisbola targets around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, Israel warned residents to leave nearly the entire city.
“Israel and Lebanon have been holding rare direct talks to try to end the fighting.”
Israeli and Lebanese officials are expected to meet again Friday at the Pentagon. Daniel Estrian NPR News, Tel Aviv. The Justice Department has charged a Google employee with using confidential information to bet on the site Polly Market, more from NPR's Bobby Allen. Michele Spagnuolo is an Italian Google software engineer, residing in Switzerland.
Federal prosecutors say he gained access to internal documents showing who would be the most Google person of the year in 2025.
That led to $1.2 million in profit on Polly Market.
He now faces commodities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering charges. He had an initial court appearance in New York and has been released on bail. Last month, the US military official was charged with profiting off of classified information about the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. President Trump has vowed that prediction markets would thrive in his term, despite the
two cases his administration has taken a mostly light touch approach to the controversial industry. Bobby Allen and PR News. This is NPR News. A new analysis finds the United States continues to spend more on healthcare than similar
countries and have worse outcomes. NPR Selena Simmons definitely explains American life expectancy is 79 years, nearly three years less in the average life expectancy in peer countries. Every few years, the think tank the Commonwealth fund does a major analysis, comparing the US to other countries like Canada, Australia, Japan, and Mexico.
Minera Gunja, the lead author of the latest report, says the US stands out in many negative ways. American spend more on healthcare, avoid care because of costs, and have more preventable deaths. The US is also an outlier on universal health coverage.
In the US, we're kind of going backwards. We have bills now in place that are going to take health insurance away from millions of Americans. She mentions major funding cuts to Medicaid in the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces. Another point in the report, the US has fewer primary care doctors and medical school
graduates than peer countries. Selena Simmons, definitely, and peer news. An uncanny resemblance to a certain president's distinctive hairdo and viral fame has saved a rare albino buffalo's life. In Bangladesh, the estimated 1,500-pound animal nickname Donald Trump for its golden
tough, was slated to become a sacrificial offering during this week's Eid festivity celebrated by Muslims worldwide. After images of the buffalo and its blonde locks went viral, the government intervened. I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington.
