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"Life from MPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Givone, a federal judge in Bost...

parts of President Trump's executive order to restrict voting by mail.

The ruling applies to the 23 mainly Democratic-led states that challenged the order, plus Washington, D.C. and PR's Huntsy-Lawant has details."

A key part of President Trump's order from March calls for the U.S. Postal Service to come up

with lists of eligible voters and deliver mail-in ballots only to people on those lists. U.S.P.S. financial support of NPR, U.S. District Judge and D.R. to Alwani and Boston found that Trump's order exceeds his authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress, not the president to set federal election rules. So far, the order has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year's elections, but

the judge is ruling sets up an expected appeal by the Trump administration. In similar lawsuits based in Washington, D.C., Democrats are appealing in decision by another federal judge, who last month refused to put out an emergency order that would block

parts of Trump's election order, because the Trump administration had not carried it

them out yet. Huntsy-Lawant and PR news. Fennel's oil is president says that at least 160 people have been killed and backed back earthquakes that hit the country, rescue workers are searching for survivors as help begins to arrive from nearby countries.

Manwavada has more.

Major earthquakes are relatively rare in Venezuela.

In the past hours, Latin American countries that have more experience with big quakes, including Mexico and Chile have said their send-in rescue teams in medical equipment there. And U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio said rescue teams from Virginia and California are also on the way. "That's the most immediate need right now, is search and rescue efforts, and then we're

also helping them with some overhead imagery, especially in coastal areas where they don't have full visibility over what the damage has been and what the impact has been." Venezuela's act in president del Cirolediga said dozens of buildings collapse in the coastal city of La Guida and the nation's main airport has been closed. For MPR Newsom Manwavada in Bogota, a massive heat wave continues to grip much of western

Europe and PR's Ruth Scherlock reports the U.F.E. Gallery in Italy suspended ticket sales as the air-conditioning system there gave up. The air conditioning at the U.F.E. Gallery buckled in the extreme temperatures that have

reached 96.8 Fahrenheit in Florence, operations are underway to mend the units, but in

the meantime, new ticket sales have been suspended until Monday, the gallery says, "Those with existing reservations can enter, but only at staggered times to reduce crowding. This has created long, snaking lines of visitors waiting outside in the heat. Italy's health ministry has placed 16 cities, including Florence, Milan, Rome, Turin and Verona on its highest heat alert.

The World Meteorological Organization says Europe is warming at twice the global average Ruth Scherlock and Pyrenees." The Dow was up 78th and asked back off 1961 this is NPR. Vocalist David Clayton Thomas has died at the age of 84. He led the 1960s rock band, Blood, Sweat and Tears, NPR's Felix Contreras reports the

band went from Granny Winning Heights to a controversial ant. David Clayton Thomas had a rough start in music, having taught himself guitar well in a reformatory as a teen in Toronto. After eventually making his way from Canada to New York, he was heard by the leader of the then fledgling band, Blood Sweat and Tears, and before too long, they were selling

millions of rare. A controversial trip to Eastern Europe in 1970 sponsored by the US State Department put them in the crosshairs of a political cultural war that pretty much caused the demise of the band. David Clayton Thomas continued as a solo act, performing and recording with smaller

jazz bands while advocating for a restorative youth justice programs in Canada. A tarp still covers the exterior wall of the Kennedy Center where workers reportedly removed President Trump's name. Now federal judge Christopher Cooper wants to know why that is and what the administrators of the performing arts landmark have planned for the rest of the year.

The judge is asking for a report by no later than the last day of July, and specifically Cooper ordered the Kennedy Center to explain the purpose and status of the tarp and scaffolding over the front of the arts complex. I'm Louise Skiavone and PR News, Washington. This is our glass.

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