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The U.S. is finally granting Ukraine's long-running request for the license to make
“patriot air defense systems to use against Russia's missile attacks.”
President Trump publicly discloses decision today as he was meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, who he praised for trying to reach a truce with Russia.
"At the summit, we announced the $3 billion of new defense investments with U.S.
companies, and Lakheed Martin will establish a world-class patriot missile, sustainment facility, a big deal in Europe. They're given a tremendous incentive by Europe to do that." A resolution to the more than four-year-old conflict has eluded Trump's mediation attempts, so has an end to the more than four-month-old war between the U.S. and Iran.
An Ankara, Trump said the U.S. Iran ceasefire, maybe over. He threatened more military strikes on the Islamic Republic tonight in retaliation for Iran's attacks on U.S. interests in the region, but he also said both sides were still negotiating over and end to their hostilities. The Department of Justice sent letters to election officials across the country threatening
“them with potential legal action ahead of this year's contentious midterm elections.”
In particular, the DOJ's warning election officials, they will be liable if any non-citizens
cast a ballot. Non-citizen voting is extremely rare, and it's typically a result of mistakes with voter lists and systems used to check eligibility. But the DOJ says it won selection officials to tell them within five days what they're doing to ensure that no one who isn't supposed to vote won't.
DOJ officials also warn chief election officials like secretaries of state that they could be subject to criminal liability if administrators knowingly retain non-citizens on the state's voter roles or if they facilitate non-citizens in receiving and casting ballots. A spokesperson for the DOJ says these letters were sent to all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Ashley Lopez and PR news.
Manufacturing is an industry known for its strict attendance policies, however one factory
“in rural northwest Georgia is using flexible work to solve its staffing needs, and peers”
Andrew issue explains, "At one point during COVID, the Roper Corporation, owned by GE appliances, was hundreds of workers short. The plant was flooded with orders for ovens and ranges that couldn't be built fast enough. So Tony Gabbard, director of manufacturing operations, told his boss he wanted to try out a staffing firm called my work choice.
They would recruit a pool of part-time workers who could choose their shifts on an app. His boss's response?" Tony, you are crazy for trying that. But today, about 450 flexible workers pick up shifts in any given week. On average, they work 24 hours in a week.
They earn less money than full-time employees and have few benefits. Still, many of them say it's worth it for the freedom to work when they want. It's NPR. A new study finds many health insurance companies in the U.S. will be raising premiums next year for affordable care act plans.
That's on top of steep price hikes this year. After several years of affordable premiums and high enrollment, the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces like healthcare.gov are under new management. Republicans and Congress did not renew billions in extra federal subsidies that had been keeping premium costs down.
And so costs for many people shut up at the beginning of the year. About one in five in rollies could not afford these higher premiums and dropped their coverage. Now, a preliminary analysis of insurance filings finds that insurance rates will be going up again next year by a median of 14% according to the Health Research Organization KFF. The millions of people who buy their health insurance in the marketplace often don't have
any alternative source of coverage. Selina Simmons, Duffin and PR News. The Democratic Party's effort to retake the U.S. Senate is at stake as its scrambles to find a candidate who could replace Maine, Senate nominee, Graham Platner, Platters under pressure to drop out while he continues to deny rape allegations.
President Trump's loss to bid to get his name back on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Today, a U.S. appeals court denied the administration request to pause a lower court order in law suit that was brought by a Kennedy Center board member, Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty.
I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington. Of all the protests in the summer of 2020, for a moment there, it was Utopia. One took a unique turn. This is the story of how violence came to occupy an anti-violence occupation in Seattle. Listen to We Keep Us Safe, a new true crime series on the Embedded Podcast from NPR.
