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The Trump administration's confirming new retaliatory strikes against Iran on social media
today.
“The president says "Force is fired on rival targets near the state of Hormuz after Iran”
attempted to add sea mines to the globally vital trade route," Trump ends his post threatening even heavier strikes if Iran retaliates. There won't be a government shutdown ahead of the November mid-terms under the terms of a bill headed to President Trump's desk. Today the House follow the Senate in approving a measure that extends federal agency
funding through mid-December. With a make-up of Congress hanging in the balance a new whistleblower report warns, the U.S. Postal Services plan to carry out President Trump's mail and voting restrictions could jeopardize the elections and Piers Hansi Lowong explains. President Trump's order calls for the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail and ballots only
to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the U.S. P.S. We should
know U.S. P.S. is a financial support of NPR. The Postal Service has been working on an online portal that would allow state election officials to submit voter names, but a new whistleblower report claims the online system has not been properly tested and could lead to eligible absentee voters not getting ballots in time or at all.
“Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut submitted the report to U.S. P.S.”
What the disclosure reveal is that the Postal Service has designed a system that is intended to fail. The spokespeople for U.S. P.S. did not respond to questions about the whistleblowers claims on Zilawong and Piers News. Chevron is expected to announce it'll expand operations in Venezuela, more from NPR's
Michelle Kellerman. The Chevron Investment is part of a larger Trump administration effort to control more of Venezuela's oil sector and push out Russia and China. The White House announced this week that the Pentagon is taking a 35% ownership stake in a company that will have 100-year rights over 17 oil fields in Venezuela.
The U.S. is partnering with a controversial Venezuela and businessman, Alejandro Benton Corps, who faced money laundering allegations in Europe. A U.S. official who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity described Benton Corps as a proven operator. End insists that a professionalized oil sector will help Venezuela's transition to democracy.
“Michelle Kellerman and P.R. News, the State Department.”
It has been another tough day in U.S. markets and Piers' Rafael NAM has recaptured. It hasn't been a great start to September. The prospect of a resumption of attacks between the U.S. and Iran helped send stock markets lower, with all three major indexes ending down. Meanwhile, Brent, the global benchmark recruit, searched amid fears that global supplies
will continue to be hit. Perhaps the biggest action happened in Don Markets, a seller there drove up short and long-term interest rates. That's NPR's Rafael NAM reporting. The Dow is closed down 419 points.
This is NPR News. Juris will resume deliberations tomorrow in Lindsey Clancy's murder trial today. They told the judge they'd been unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether the Massachusetts woman should be held criminally responsible for killing her three young children in 2023. The defense argue she suffered postpartum, psychosis, the prosecution says Clancy knew
what she was doing. Victims of utility caused wildfires could stand to get paid sooner under legislation state lawmakers in California were considering a day. Same legislature had blocked parts of Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to reduce electric company's liability if their equipment sparks a fire.
The program in Milwaukee is using produce that would otherwise be trash to make vegetarian meals for vulnerable people or those, and so-called food deserts, my and silver of WWM report. Volunteers for veggie chop shop gather up unsold produce at local farmer's markets. They chop up veggies like green beans, corn, tomatoes and cucumber, then two-page chefs on staff cook them into vegetarian meals.
Antonio Felder is a volunteer at an outdoor pantry in a Milwaukee neighborhood where chop shop meals are offered. "You bring in it to the people.
Some things that people probably never tried before.
This is pure. This is good for you." Since 2015, veggie chop shop has served more than 51,000 community meals to places like shelters that focus on domestic violence or homelessness. They've used more than 93,000 pounds of produce that would have otherwise ended up in
landfills. "Friend pair news, I'm Iyan Silver and Milwaukee. This is NPR." Billionaire Mark Cuban has stared into the belly of the beast of America's health care system. "I mean, it's so bad you can go through a long list of really quality hospitals and they
don't know their costs." So can Medicare for all be a solution? We take a hard look at the cost of the program along with U.S. health care itself. Find this and hear more stories from the indicator from planet money on the NPR app.
