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A federal judge is once again blocking President Trump's order that seeks to limit male voting in the midterm elections.
For now, it comes about a week before the first male ballots are due to be sent out.
A group of mostly democratic-led states sued over Trump's order to deliver male-in ballots only to people on lists of absentee voters. It states would have to turn over to the administration. So far, the Supreme Court ruled on a procedural issue, but has not weighed in on whether Trump's order is legal.
A federal judge heard arguments today over the Kennedy Center, board's efforts to put President Trump's name back up at the Arts Complex in Washington, D.C. and P.R.'s Anassassia Silcus has more. The Kennedy Center, board wants to add President Trump's name on the entryway of the center.
“Is that fundamentally the same as renaming it, or is it something different?”
Lawyers for the plaintiff, Representative Joyce Bady, Democratic Ohio State, Judge Christopher
R. Cooper has already ruled that the board does not have the right to rename the Living Memorial to President John F. Kennedy. Department of Justice Lawyers, representing President Trump and other members of the board, argue adding another line of signage to the entryway thanking Trump for his planned renovation of the complex is not changing the institution's name.
It's not clear yet when Cooper will make a ruling, Anassassia Silcus and P.R. News. Nearly six months ago, Iranian missiles targeted a U.S. base in Bahrain, forcing military families to evacuate. Many displaced families don't know what comes next, and Navy leaders admit they did not expect the war would go on this long as Steve Walsh with W.H.R.O. reports.
Many families were sent to the safe havens they designated for emergencies. Others have been moved several times, often living in hotel rooms and short-term rentals. Police Admiral Kurt Renshaw, the head of Fifth Fleet, told the families that the Navy
“now wants them to pick a more permanent location while the military figures out the future”
of Bahrain. Steve Walsh from W.H.R.O. reporting, testimony has ended in the trial of the former gang leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 drive by killing of two poxicor, Steve Futterman reports. The defense presented just three witnesses, all former members of the Las Vegas Police Department.
The prosecution's case depends almost entirely on comments from Dwayne Davis in a memoir and an interview where he repeatedly admits supplying the gun used in the killing and says he was in the car that drove up alongside Shakur. The defense claims these were all in bellishments, and that there's no corroborating evidence to support Davis' admissions.
The final witness former detective Dan Long was asked how he was able to confirm that Davis was in the vehicle. "I'm Mr. Davis telling me that he was in a white catalog, and that she didn't claim from that same white catalog."
“Davis is the only one allegedly in the catalog still alive, closing arguments are set”
for Monday. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman. "You're listening to NPR News."
Kids under 18 will soon see changes to Instagram and Facebook, thanks to the $18 billion
settlement Mehta reached with states yesterday, Mehta agreed to strengthen its age estimates to keep kids under 13 off its platforms, and teens in age appropriate accounts, and it promised to enact a limit of two hours a day for users under 18, and block kids from the apps from midnight to 6am, and hide like counts. Critics and children's advocates cautioned it will not solve the problems overnight.
The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak owe is over in Uganda, but NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that's not so in other parts of the region. "It's been over 42 days since Uganda reported a new case of Ebola. This milestone marks the end of their outbreak, which only infected 20 people. The outbreak in DRC is still growing fast.
Over 5,700 people have gotten sick, and over 2700 have died, according to Africa CDC. The true toll is likely much greater, but the response has improved in recent weeks. More people are seeking treatment at clinics, and the number of beds has increased by about 40% compared to last month. While there are no approved vaccines for the kind of Ebola that's spreading, tens of thousands
of doses of a different Ebola vaccine just arrived. Officials are hopeful it can provide some protection, and health workers will start receiving shots today. Jonathan Lambert and BR News St. Fenorias, the Orthodox Christian patron saint of lost things, is honored each August
27th with prayers and traditional orange-flavored cake. Fenorias is believed to help people facing lost hardship and uncertainty. It's NPR. One of here this podcast without sponsor breaks, Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now, sponsor free through Amazon Music.
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