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The Republican-led House voted 413-2 to Central North Carolina Republican Chuck Edwards.
“NPR's Clotic Bersel is reports a House committee recommended the move after an ethics investigation”
found that he sexually harassed two female staff members." Chuck Edwards rejected the allegations taking to the House floor to urge his colleagues to vote against censure, and while he apologized to the two female staffers at the center of the probe, he said he should be judged on the quote "facts." "Mr. Speaker, regret is not an admission of sexual harassment."
However, the 65-year-old congressman ended his reelection bid after the panel shared its investigative findings. The House Ethics Committee said Edwards created a hostile work environment fueled by sexual harassment and unwanted advances on two of his employees. The center marks a rare public shaming on the House floor, the panel's maximum punishment,
short of expulsion. "Clotty, do you say this?" NPR News. On a broad bipartisan vote, the House of Representatives has passed legislation to extend federal spending at current levels beyond the November midterm elections and through
mid-December. The Senate has already approved the bill that President's expected to sign it, the action of vverts a government shutdown. The U.S. military is coming to grips with a big resignation army secretary, Dan Driscoll, who had clashed with Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth, turned in his resignation directly
to President Trump and PR's Tom Bowman has details. He told the President a number of things, according to a person close to him. He said the U.S. is losing the Iran war. He talked about how the war is drastically reduced to stockpile of missiles. Talk to what the difficulty in getting the Pentagon budget through under Defense Secretary
Pete Heggseth and he said modernizing the military a key focus of Driscoll was not going forward, because Heggseth is firing people who know what they're doing.
This person said Driscoll basically laid it down.
“I think there was a hope Driscoll would stay through the mid-terms, but I'm told he'll”
leave this week. NPR's Tom Bowman. It was another tough day in markets as another wave of U.S. strikes against Iranian targets said stocks lower and oil prices sharply higher, and PR's Raphael Naver reports. 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. But perhaps the biggest action happened in bond markets.
A cell of terror drove up, shorts, and long-term interest rates. All this at a time when bond investors are already concerned that governments like the U.S. and Japan are borrowing massive amounts of money and going deeper into that. Raphael Naver in PR News. This is NPR News in Washington.
An innovative program in Milwaukee is using produce that would otherwise be thrown out to make healthy vegetarian meals for vulnerable people, or those in so-called food deserts. Myon Silver of W-U-U-W-M in Milwaukee reports. 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-baid chefs on staff cook them into vegetarian meals. Antonio Felder is a volunteer at an outdoor pantry in a Milwaukee neighborhood where the chop shop meals are offered. You bring 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 is 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. Friendship our news, I'm Myon Silver, and Milwaukee. In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Judge William Sullivan has ordered jurors and the Lindsey Clancy murder trial to keep trying to reach a unanimous decision. jurors have now headed home for the evening after day four.
Today they told the judge they are deadlocked on a verdict. The 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse is accused of strangling her children ages five and three years old and eight months. Since he's attorneys argue she was suffering postpartum psychosis, prosecutors say there's evidence-clancy new her actions were wrong and had made a conscious choice.
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