The Supreme Court will not here, President Trump's appeal in the E.
This is the second time it has rejected Trump's bid to overturn the jury verdict. And PR's Rachel Tresman reports.
“"Rider E.G. Carole alleges that Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s.”
A federal civil jury found Trump liable in 2023, ordering him to pay Carole $5 million in damage
dollars in damages. She received the money last month," her lawyer said after years of Trump's appeals and delays. The Supreme Court rejected Trump's initial appeal in June. The President asked the Supreme Court to reconsider, but it denied that request on Monday. Trump has separately asked the court to overturn a different federal civil defamation verdict
that would award Carole more than $83 million. Rachel Tresman and PR news. The USS George Washington is on his way to the Middle East to relieve sailors aboard the warship the USS Lincoln after more than 250 days at sea. But as NPR's Emily Fang reports, the move leaves the Asia Pacific region once more with
scarce American military support.
Both the Lincoln and the Washington were deployed in the Pacific Ocean when they were diverted to the Middle East because of the war with Iran. Even as China has flexed militarily against Taiwan and the Philippines in the Pacific, the war with Iran has also left the U.S. military very low in interceptor missiles. So low that a report this month from the Conservative Think Tank, the Heritage Foundation,
found the U.S. does not have enough interceptors to defend the island of Taiwan from any potential attack from China. President Trump also wrote on Sunday that he was ordering the U.S. to "substantially reduce joint military drills with South Korea."
“An ally and a key security partner in the decade past has the U.S. tries to contain”
China's influence in East Asia. Emily Fang and Peer News, Washington. A voter advocacy group in New Hampshire is challenging a new state ban on using student IDs to check in at polling places as NPR's Hanzi Lohong reports other Republican-led states have also recently passed similar laws. New Hampshire and Indiana have stopped allowing registered voters to check in at the
polls with student IDs, a similar ban in Florida said to start next year. Republicans say officials say these ban support election security. There is no evidence, however, of widespread voter fraud involving student IDs. The coalition for open democracy voter advocacy group is now suing over New Hampshire's ban. They argue it violates the U.S. constitution for burdening eligible voters
right to vote and discriminating against younger voters. An April federal judge ruled Indiana's ban is likely unconstitutional, but that ruling was paused after Republican officials appealed. Boating rights advocates in these states are now trying to help make sure eligible students have a state ID or another accepted identification to vote in upcoming
elections on Zila Wong and PR News. The Dow Jones industrial averages down to 74, this is NPR News in Washington. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo say the death toll from the current Ebola outbreak is now more than 2000, making this its deadliest outbreak in the country's history.
Michael Kuloki reports that Congo's confirmed cases have reached almost 5,000. A new report from the Democratic Republic of Congo's public health institute shows that the total number of Ebola deaths recorded so far has surpassed those during the 2018 to 2020 outbreak, which had previously been the country's worst on record. The current outbreak is caused by the Bundesliga species of Ebola and has no approved
vaccines or treatments. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that violence against healthcare workers is among factors making response efforts challenging. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kuloki in Nairobi. One of Belgium's biggest ever wildfires raged out of control is the day began, burning across roughly 12 square miles in the high fence near Germany.
The blaze has not abated despite the arrival of rain and cooler weather, dozens of firefighters were aided by aircraft sent from Norway, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands. Elsewhere in Europe, Greek fire investigators examined the area on the island of Salamina where a fast-moving wildfire Sunday killed two people and destroyed several homes. In southwestern France, after four days of firefighting, authorities say a blaze covered
almost seven square miles, but it's now under control. This is one of Europe's hottest and driest summers on record. I'm Louise Kivoni and PR News, Washington.
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