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affordability bill intended to lower the cost of housing and encourage more home construction.
“On social media the Republican leader said he was protesting Congress's inability to pass”
a strict voter identification bill with the country well into midterm primary season. Trump had ten days until today to sign or veto or allow the legislation to take effect at midnight without his signature. The administration has ousted the remaining leadership at the election assistance Commission. This leaves the independent agency in a precarious position heading into November's
midterm elections. We have more from NPR's Ashley Lopez. The White House says it has removed the last few commissioners of the election assistance commission. This is an independent agency created in the wake of the 2000 presidential
election, a close race plagued by administrative errors. The agency has since helped provide
election officials with resources and has collected data about how elections went. The EAC was created to have four commissioners at the beginning of this year, one Republican member abruptly resigned, and now another is also resigning. The agency's two Democratic members, however, were removed. Ashley Lopez and PR News. President Trump says Iran asked to keep negotiating and end two hostilities in the U.S.
agreed, but that the June ceasefire was over. He gave an update on social media today after a three-cattari and Saudi commercial tankers came under fire this week and led to retaliatory strikes between the war rivals. Joseph Hotel is a retired four-star general and served as Commander of U.S. Central Command from 2016 to 2019. An NPR hotel was asked if he believed Iran was willing to risk prolonged war with the U.S. to maintain control over
the straight-of-armours.
“I think that's a big takeaway out of just these last 72, 96 hours that Iran is principally”
focused on permanent sovereign control of the straight-of-armours, and they are willing to accept the risk of large-scale conflict before they're willing to relinquish. Goldman Sachs is prohibiting employees from betting on prediction markets such as Polymarket and Calshy, and Piers Bobby Allen reports on the latest investment firm to warn staff against abusing confidential information.
Prediction markets offer betting on many topics involving finance, whether it's a company's quarterly earnings, or what an analyst will say on an investor call or when a company will introduce a new service. The new rule from Goldman Sachs prohibits employees from placing bets on future outcomes related to finance, corporate America, elections, or geopolitics that does allow for employees to wage your own sports and entertainment. Billions of dollars
are traded every week on prediction market sites, which are largely unregulated, despite
“the new rule Goldman Sachs' CEO David Solomon said earlier this year that prediction markets”
were "superinteresting," and that he had met with prediction market executives over possible partnerships, Bobby Allen and PR news. It's NPR. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded. This comes amid
reports that the outbreak has spread to new provinces in the country, and PR's Jewelbright has details. Health officials say they are tracing potential Ebola cases in the provinces of Shuffle and Hawaii. To suspected cases are also being tested in the city of Kishan-Ghani, one of Congo's biggest cities. Health officials say the suspected cases suggest the outbreak is now
spreading beyond trip provinces in the country's eastern region, which had been the epicenter of the outbreak, but in 1700 Ebola cases have been recorded in the DRC, since the start of the outbreak in May, and at this 600 people have died. This week, health workers respond into the outbreak, trying to go on strike to protest poor-working conditions, and the non-payment of salaries, Jewelbright and PR News Lagos.
The German automaker Volkswagen says it plans to significantly scale back its model lineup. After Europe's largest automaker reported an 8.6% decline in global deliveries, where the
third of the decline isn't China, where the German automaker is struggling to compete with
Chinese rivals. Volkswagen's top executives says sales were affected by geopolitical tensions, as well as increasing costs. The company has not said if it now intends to implement its plan for mass layoffs. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. Fram Platner is out. On the latest in PR politics podcast, we are unpacking the downfall of a candidate once seen as a standard bearer for Democrats. Plus, what Platner's exit from the
main Senate race could mean for the balance of power and Congress. Listen to the NPR politics podcast every afternoon to stay a step ahead of all the latest political news.
