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The U.S. Postal Service is appealing the latest court ruling to block its plan for an
“order by President Trump, that order seeks to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm”
election. As Imperiales Hansi LaWang reports, the appeal sets up another possible Supreme Court review of Trump's order. So far, President Trump's order has not directly affected mail-in voting, but the U.S. Postal Service is now appealing the latest major legal hurdle to carrying out Trump's
order. The Postal Service plan involves delivering mail-in ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mail-in agency. U.S. District Judge and Dirtolani found that plan is likely illegal because U.S. P.S. has no authority to control voting by mail.
We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
The Postal Services appeal sets the stage for another review of Trump's order at the Supreme Court.
“So far, the high court has not weighed in on whether the order is legal, but there's”
little time left where the order to be fully carried out, mail-in voting for the midterm starts next week on Zilawang and Fjarnews. An experimental treatment that uses gene-editing to cut cholesterol levels appears to continue working for at least a year, according to new research that was released today. And P.S. Robstein has more.
The treatment uses the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to switch off a gene in the liver to lower levels of so-called "back cholesterol" as well as triglycerides, which can cause heart attacks and strokes.
Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic last year reported that a single infusion of the gene
editor could cut bad cholesterol and triglyceride levels by about half for at least two months. At a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology Congress, the researchers report that the benefits can last at least a year. They stress, however, that more research is still needed to make sure the treatment will continue to work safely.
“Robstein, and P.R. News Investors now think the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest”
rates as early as next month. If your Scott Horsley reports, the shift comes after a speech this morning by Fed Chair Kevin Worc. Speaking to a gathering of economists and central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Worc described the labor market as stable, consumer spending as resilient, and business investment,
especially in artificial intelligence, as strong. The source spot in the economy, so far as Worc is concerned, is inflation. Flation is running above our two percent target. So the Fed's predominant focus, right now, should be on prices. While Worc remained tight-lipped about where he thinks interest rates are going, investors
took his remarks as a signal that a rate hike could be coming as early as September. Three members of the Fed's rates heading committee were already pushing for a rate hike at the last Fed meeting when the central bank held its benchmark rate steady. Scott Horsley, in Pyrenees, Washington. And that's at Walt Street, lower by the closed-out on 9 points, Nasdaq down 138.
You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Federal investigators have released a report on a fatal chemical spill at a paper mill in Washington state this spring. They determined that past inspections showed that there were safety concerns over the chemical tank that ruptured, killing 11 people.
Oregon Public Broadcasting's Eric Newman has more. This initial investigation from the U.S. chemical safety board has been in the works since the spill happened May 26th. On that morning, some 900,000 gallons of heated, caustic chemicals known as white-licker spilled when a storage tank failed at the long-view Washington paper mill.
The spill killed 11 employees and injured eight others. The new report shows that 10 months before the incident, safety inspectors told the company the chemical tank was unsafe and it should be repaired. Those chemicals inside the tank are corrosive to metals and the tank's walls were thinning. The investigation is ongoing.
The new report doesn't include consequences, but it provides the clearest picture yet of what happened. For NPR News, I'm Eric Newman. The death toll from catastrophic flash flooding on the border between Nepal and China's Tibert region has risen to more than 570, with more than 2,000 listed as missing, including
hundreds of foreign tourists as rescue efforts continue. The State Department says 90 Americans are unaccounted for in both countries, while five have been rescued. Preliminary reports suggest a giant glacier collapsed, triggering the flooding and the landslide. I'm Jeanine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
It's another sound of Antarctica, and that's a reporter trying to interview a penguin.
