"Live from NPR News in Washington on Corva Coleman, a new order from the U.
has further weakened the Federal Voting Rights Act in seven states, mainly in the Midwest.
NPR's Hanzi Loweong reports, the order, comes out of a case about the landmark laws protections for disabled voters and voters who are unable to read or write."
“The Supreme Court is leading in place a lower court ruling that strikes down a key tool for”
protecting voters with a disability or an inability to read or write. The ruling applies to Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Across the country, lawsuits by voters and advocacy groups have been the main way of enforcing the Voting Rights Act's protections for voters with a disability or an ability to read
a write. The last year ruling by a Federal appeals panel agreed with a novel argument by Republican State officials in Arkansas that only the U.S. Attorney General has a right to sue to enforce that protection. The Supreme Court has now refused to review the panel's ruling.
The movie comes about two months after the Supreme Court's conservative Supermajority week in the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination and redistricting. On Z-Loweong, NPR News, Washington.
“Vice President Vance is returning to the U.S. after holding the first high-level direct talks”
with Iranian representatives in Switzerland. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to set up a working group focused on the more in Lebanon. NPR's Greg Myri says U.N. peacekeepers report, "There was no recorded shooting yesterday between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon." There was very heavy fighting Friday and Saturday.
Israeli troops remain miles inside southern Lebanon. The Israeli leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel will keep troops there for as long as it takes, he says, to protect northern Israel. Hezbollah is also defiant saying the war will not be settled until Israeli troops leave Lebanon."
NPR's Greg Myri reporting. Pompeo has made an urgent appeal to government to focus on combating global hunger. He gave an address to the U.N. World Food Programme in warned of a disintegrating world order.
“He added aid operations to help the poorest are essential for protecting the idea of the”
international community. NPR's Resurlock has more. The international system, Leo said, is becoming disorderly and conflict-ridin and imbued by a prevailing sense of mistrust. He told the staff of the U.N. World Food Programme in Rome that while aid and development projects become insneared by politics and bureaucracy,
weapons do not. "In effect, conflicts are fed more readily than people are nourished."
Pope Leo spoke of WFP's mission as essential to preventing humanitarian crises from deteriorating
into irreversible collapse. In an era where agencies like WFP have seen budgets drastically slashed, he pressed governments to cut red tape and tear down the barriers that prevented from reaching those in need, Ruth Xialock and Piongese. "You're listening to NPR." Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died according to a statement from his
wife. Greenspan was 100 years old. He led the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades and was celebrated for keeping interest rates low. But critics say Greenspan's resistance to bank regulation contributed to the financial meltdown of 2008. Blood tests that our underdevelopment are getting better at screening for multiple cancers, and Piers Yukinaguchi explains that the Food and Drug Administration could approve the first
such blood test around the end of the year. The screening is common in the U.S. for a handful of cancers like breast, colon and cervical. The recent research in the Journal of Clinical Oncology on Patients in the U.K. showed blood tests that can detect cancer markers can help catch disease earlier. Megan Hall had medical affairs for Grail, the company that makes the test used in the study.
"It's a real fundamental shift in how we think about cancer screening instead of screening for individual cancers. We can now screen an individual from multiple cancers simultaneously." She says such tests, currently under regulatory review, could help improve survival rates. Yukinaguchi and PR news. Whether forecasters have put up heat advisories from central Texas to southern New Mexico
today. There are excessive heat watches posted for parts of California and Arizona. It could reach 114 degrees today in Phoenix. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News, and Washington. "This is our glass. On this American life, when they mean like, it's a good mystery. Sometimes it's about really big things. But most times, the little mysteries are the best.
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