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The Supreme Court has paused a lower court's ruling on President Trump's order to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election in a little over two months, but, as NPR's Hansi Lowell reports, the Postal Service is still blocked from following Trump's order. It remains unclear what impact President Trump's order will have a mail-in voting for the midterms.
The order calls for the U.S. Postal Service to get lists of eligible voters from states and deliver ballots only to people on those lists. The U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
“In June of federal judge and Boston block key parts of Trump's order in the 23 states plus”
Washington, you see that suit. That judge found Trump overstepped a president's authority under the Constitution, which gives power to state legislatures and Congress to set federal election rules. The Supreme Court did not weigh in on whether the order is illegal, but it did approve Trump's request to pause the judge's June ruling on the directors for U.S. P.S.
But the same judge and Boston recently issued a separate ruling that blacks U.S. P.S. from following Trump's order across the country, on zero long NPR news. Today, the Trump administration celebrated its efforts to redefine education at a back-to-school theme-devent at the White House Rose Garden, where both President Trump and Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke and appears to genocompetta reports.
President Trump kicked off his speech by touting his administration's efforts to ban transgender students from playing school sports and removing "far-left extremism" from the classroom.
He also hailed what will soon become the first nationwide private-school choice program.
“One year ago, as part of the Great Big Beautiful Bill, we passed the education, freedom”
tax credit, the largest ever expansion of school choice. 31 states have already opted into the program, which will go into effect next year. The president also praised Secretary McMahon for her efforts to dwindle down the operations of the Education Department, which has been a central goal of the second Trump administration. Genocompetta and PR News The investigation continues into an alleged cocaine ring at Penn
State where drug dealers allegedly used two frat houses to sell drugs to college students, but NPR's Brian Mann found the big substance use risk on U.S. campuses isn't cocaine its alcohol. The drug busted Penn State was headline-grabbing, 14 people arrested, fraternity pledges allegedly helping process cocaine sold at campus parties.
The federal research shows cocaine use among college-age Americans has actually been dropping fast. Megan Patrick at the University of Michigan is one of the co-authors of an annual report studying substance use. There's been a decrease over the past five years in cocaine use among young adults in the
U.S. The prevalence overall is about 5%. Alcohol use among college-age Americans has also fallen, but federal research shows about half of young adults still drink. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimates that as many as 15
hundred college students die each year from causes linked to alcohol, Brian Mann and PR News. U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish today. This is NPR News from Washington. More than 300 people have died of Ebola in East from Congo in the past week, workers are struggling to contain the outbreak as it spreads at an unprecedented speed.
It's recorded more than 5,500 cases in 2,600 deaths. Experts believe the outbreak could be three times the known size nearly half those infected have died. Ukraine is marking 35 years of independence and hosting a number of European leaders as NPR's Polina Litvinova reports.
This year's Independence Day is the fifth during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine's president followed him with a Zelensky and first lady, Olena Zelensky studied it
with honouring fallen soldiers killed at war. Zelensky also met with European leaders visiting Ukraine to participate in the meeting of the coalition of the willing and alliance of Ukraine's partners helping it to defend itself from Russia's aggression. The UK Prime Minister and the Burnham is expected to allow European Defense Company MBDA
to share information on the UK made components in scalp cruise measles.
“This is crucial for Ukraine as it is constantly being attacked by Russian ballistic”
measles and doesn't have enough air defense rockets to intercept them. Polina Litvinova and Bjarinus Kluyov. A live oak tree at a revolutionary war battlefield in South Carolina is getting a new lease on life. The witness tree was there during the September 1781 Battle of Utah Springs, chains have
held it together for 50 years ever since a lightning bolt nearly split it in two. They're getting replaced with a modern support system including lightning rods. For the past 25 years, a rare Pacific ecosystem has been undisturbed. Now the Trump administration is opening nearby waters to commercial fishing.
The Americans' fishermen have never had a better ally in the White House than Donald Trump.
This week on the Sunday Story, we discuss what's at stake for this wild ecosystem.
