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The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's attacks on state laws regarding mail-in ballots.
“The decision leaves in place laws in more than half of states in the district of Columbia”
that permit mailed ballots to be counted after the election, as long as they're postmarked by election day, Trump says mail-in voting breeds fraud, despite strong evidence of the contrary. And President Trump boasted of a new Supreme Court ruling today that gives him greater executive power over independent agencies, and PR's Franco-Ordonio's reports the High Court
ruled Trump can fire certain independent regulators. The ruling over turns in almost 100-year-old previous court ruling that provided greater protections for certain agencies to maintain their independence. In a social media post, Trump wrote that it was an honor to be the "sitting president" who won this historic and unprecedented ruling.
The case centered on Trump's right to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, but the ruling has much deeper implications and could serve as precedent for more than two dozen independent agencies across the federal government, including the National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
“But the court also ruled that Trump cannot immediately fire federal reserve governor Lisa”
Cook, Franco, or Donia's, and PR News, the White House. The Justice Department is changing the name of a division that focuses on environmental litigation in enforcement and PR's Jacqueline Diaz has more. The new name for the DOJ's Environmental and Natural Resources Division emphasizes the agency's work on energy security.
That's according to DOJ leadership who announced the change in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The division will now be called the Energy and Natural Resources Division. The DOJ says it's being done to highlight tech advances in the production and use of domestic energy.
But the agency also says the name change does not affect the division's work to defend the environment. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News. The Interior Department has released the names of three firefighters who were killed
“by a fast-moving wildfire in Western Colorado on Saturday and PR's Nate Rot reports.”
The U.S. wildland fire service says the three firefighters were assigned to a helicopter crew and working to contain a fire on the Colorado Utah border when they were overtaken by flames. They were identified as Emily Barker, a 38-year-old from Michigan, McHutcherson, a 27-year-old from Arizona and city Watson, a 27-year-old from Alabama. Two other firefighters were injured in her getting medical care.
A dry winter has left many parts of the Western U.S. parched that dry vegetation combined with strong winds and high temperatures fueled explosive fire growth on a number of wildfires over the weekend. The Interior Department says an investigation into the burn-over incident is ongoing. Nate Rot and PR News.
U.S. stocks rose today and recovered some of their losses from last week, the NASDAQ rose more than 2%. This is NPR.
New Federal figures show that about 3 million fewer people had affordable caract health insurance
plans in February compared to the same time last year, the Department of Health and Human Services says the 13% drop is due to a federal crackdown on fraudulent enrollment, but many health analysts say it's more likely related to the expiration of federal subsidies on January 1. It has caused a surge in costs.
Health care research nonprofit KFF says it expects the number of people in the government health care program to continue to decline throughout the year. Washington D.C. leaders are warning of record high temperatures for this year's independent state celebrations. W.A.M.
D.C. officials are preparing for up to 150,000 people to attend the flyovers and fireworks displays on the National Mall. Clint Osborn, the head of D.C. Homeland Security Agency, says the city will be taking extra precautions to keep attendees cool, especially since the fireworks aren't set to start until 10 30 pm this year.
But is imperative that you plan for yourself, your family, your loved ones as you go about your week, whether you're going downtown, or you're going to be anywhere in the district this weekend enjoying the festivities. People say temperatures could rise past 100 degrees on Saturday. For NPR news, I'm Alex Coleman, Washington D.C.
What's app users will soon have the option to use user names instead of phone numbers to address privacy concerns users can reserve unique user names to be contacted without sharing their phone numbers. There won't be a directory people will need to know the exact username to make contact.
The feature is expected to launch later this year, more than 3 billion people use WhatsApp
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