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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for a plan by the U.S.
Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election. And Piers Hansi Lowang has more.
“For now, the U.S. Postal Service is blocked for moving ahead with key parts of its plan.”
We should note U.S. P.S. is financial support of NPR. The Postal Service's plan involves delivering mail-in ballots only a people on voter list that the states would have to turn over to the mailing agency. A federal judge in Boston has found that plan is likely illegal because U.S. B.S. has no authority to control voting by mail.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled on a procedural question about this legal fight. The high court has not ruled yet on the legality the Postal Service's plan. And there's a little time left for the plan to be fully carried out before mail-in voting starts for the midterm election. North Carolina said to begin sending out ballots Friday on ZLowang and Piers News.
The former head of FEMA, David Richardson, says the Trump administration is no longer trying to dismantle the agency. And Piers Rebecca Hirscher has more.
“Richardson took over at FEMA in May 2025.”
I went there for three things to get FEMA through hurricane season. You know, shut it down or drastically reduce its size and essentially get it ready for rebranding. That's why I went. He was at the agency for about six months and says during that time, the Trump administration has changed course.
And now the country's top disaster agency is here to stay. FEMA and the White House declined to answer questions from NPR about the administration's goals for the agency. Rebecca Hirscher and peer news. The late Gloria Steinem was lionized for her work advocating the rights of women.
But as then Piers Anastasia C. Lucas reports, the journalist author and social activist also helped make one of the most classic children's album of all time. There's a love that I see. Free to be you and me was the brainchild of actress Marla Thomas, but mean ever have existed without the contributions of Gloria Steinem.
In 1972, Thomas called upon her friend Steinem to help her shape free to be you and me. Steinem introduced Thomas to letty cotton pogobin, one of Miss magazine's founding editors. They all realized that mothers and their young children would be a perfect audience for their feminist message. Though songs, skits, and original stories featuring stars like Diana Ross and Harry Balfante were a huge success and inspired a book and a television special that won
Emmy and Peabody Awards. In 2020, the Library of Congress inducted the album into its national recording registry on the Stasiets Lucas and peer news, New York. The U.S. trade gap in goods and services widened in July to the highest level since 2020-25 as imports rose sharply in exports, fell amid President Trump's volatile tariffs.
The Congress department says the total gap was $88.6 billion, up 24 percent.
You're listening to NPR News. The Missouri Supreme Court blocked the redistricting backed by President Trump that had tilted a house seat in the state toward Republicans. The court ruled that it can't take effect unless voters approve it on the ballot in November. It was placed on the ballot by a citizens initiative.
It's unclear what this means to the state as the state follows to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court immediately, primaries have already been held in the new districts. The British Royals, together with the prime ministers of the UK and France, had a special private viewing at the British Museum of the Violet Test Pistory.
“It's more than a 1,000-year-old embroidery that depicts a key battle between France and England.”
If you're as learn for air reports, it goes on display to the public next week. Part war propaganda, part comic strip, the Bayotapestry, depicts the Norman Conquest, when French Normans of Scandinavian Viking descent invaded Anglo-Saxon England in the year 1066, changing this country's rulers language and culture forever. It shows gory battles, including the death of England's king by an arrow to the eye.
The 230-foot embroidery was sewn in England, but soon transported to France, and this is
the first time it's returned on loan, king Charles called that.
"The precious symbol of trust. At a time, when trust seems sadly to be in short supply between nations." Public viewings begin next week, Lauren Fryer and Pierre-News London. Wall Street higher by the closing bell that out of 624 points than Aztec up 366. I'm Janine Herbst and Pierre-News in Washington.
This week on the NPR Politics podcast, Democratic Socialists are having a moment. What's their goal? The goal being to eventually reline the Democratic Party to perhaps some day develop of an independent party, but we recognize that in the United States they're just as a two-party system. How Democratic Socialists are staking out political territory.
