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The Court has four cases left to decide, including President Trump's challenge to birth

rights citizenship, voting rights groups mean while or applauding a Supreme Court decision

that preserves the ability of states to count postmark ballots at a rive after election day. This is a victory for some veteran groups who intervened in the case, whose impures Ashley Lopez reporting Republicans were challenging a Mississippi law that allows officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive after.

But in a five-four vote, the Supreme Court upheld the law. That voice foundation was among the groups that intervened in this case. They argued eliminating ballot-received grace periods would have disproportionately harmed military and overseas voters who often face postal delays. In a statement the group said this ruling is a major victory for voters.

About 30 states have laws that allow election administrators to count postmark ballots

that arrive after election day from overseas and military voters.

Ashley Lopez and Piano's. "The heat wave that has a Midwest weltering is poised to move eastward, some of the worst conditions expected Thursday and Friday in the Ohio Valley, the Mid-Atlantic Region and the Northeast. Temperatures are forecast in the 90s, with heat index values expected to exceed 100 degrees.

The National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Badoo warns that there will be little relief when the sun goes down." Heat index value, overnight, will probably only dip below the 90-degree mark for six to

maybe eight hours overnight, so the recovery is minimal and that's what takes the toll.

"Eatways have been intensifying over the years because of human cause climate change. To Kentucky now, where damage assessment is ongoing across the state after four people died

as a result of massive flooding over the weekend, from Member Station W.E.K. K.U.

Lily Burris has more." Governor Andy Beshear told CNN Monday the remaining search and rescue efforts were occurring in more remote areas. An official with Kentucky State Parks confirmed at least four families are staying at parks in the aftermath of the disaster.

Jill Williams is the Madison County Deputy Judge Executive. She says teams are working to assess the damage there in the hope that the area can access federal emergency aid. "Our emergency management team and our county office are very executive, our focus is on getting resources to people that they need."

"Well, officials await possible help from the federal emergency management agency.

Recovery groups and non-profits are working to shelter those who lost their homes.

For NPR News, I'm Lily Burris enrichment." "Federal officials say the three firefighters killed over the weekend in a Colorado wild fire were part of a specialized crew tasked with quickly putting out new fires and remote areas." The crew was overcome Saturday after deploying emergency shelters to shield themselves.

"You're listening to NPR News." New Mexico Governor Michelle Luangrisham is pledging to take her outrage over the actions of federal agents to the White House and Congress, saying at a news conference Monday that she wants assurances at the federal drug enforcement administration is no longer allowing any shipments of fentanyl to go unseased at an effort to build bigger cases."

She says the strategy led to many more deaths and that state officials could pursue billions of dollars in civil damages and associated a press investigation found DEA agents monitored but did not seize fentanyl shipments over a two-year period New Mexico's attorney general looking into whether the agent's broke state law. Justice Department changing the name of a division that focuses on environmental litigation

and enforcement impures Jacqueline Dia says 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 wild 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. What the agency also says the name change does not affect the division's work to defend the environment. Jacqueline Diaz and PR News.

"The world gomp another penalty shootout Monday, Morocco beat the Netherlands, three goals to two on penalties Monday night to reach the last 16 after the match ended in a one-one time following extra time, Morocco's victory sets up a meeting with Canada and Houston on Saturday. And the other shootout Monday, Paraguay beat Germany."

This week, surewave is answering all your questions about Ebola and how cuts to global health funding have made it harder to contain. "We no longer have your front line, eyes and ears on the ground, very easy for an outbreak to spread very quickly." By the current Ebola outbreak in Africa could rival the worst on record.

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