Live from NPR News in Washington, on Linde Kenyan.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court again to clear the way for a U.S.
“postal service plan that could restrict mail-in voting for the midterm election.”
As NPR's Hansi LaWang reports, the Supreme Court ruling may come as soon as this Wednesday.
This is the third emergency request the Trump administration has made at the Supreme Court
for the President's attempt to limit mail-in voting. This time, the Supreme Court has set to weigh in on the legality of the U.S. postal services plan. Under that plan, U.S. P.S. would refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to voters and states where election officials do not turn over voter lists to the mailing agency and do not have certain bar codes in their ballot envelopes.
We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR. A federal judge in Boston has blocked those requirements twice, after finding that U.S. P.S. has no authority to impose them on states, and a whistleblower report claims that postal services systems, when forcing those requirements, have not been properly tested and could derail mail-in voting for the midterm general election, which is just getting started in
North Carolina on Zilawang and Pianos.
“The House Committee on Veterans Affairs has compelled testimony from L'Arealison, the head”
of Oracle. As NPR's Quil Laurence reports, Oracle's project for handling health records at the Veterans
Administration is $17 billion over budget.
With a VA's electronic health record or deal goes back decades, as technology changed, and the military and VA failed to find an interoperable system. The latest deal is from President Trump's first term. $10 billion was supposed to get VA a working system from Oracle by 2028. Now Oracle says it will be $27 billion and three years late.
Republican Mike Boss shares the House VA Committee. This has been the biggest boondoggle I've ever seen, and the frustration that we feel on this committee is beyond measure. Oracle declined a request to appear at a hearing this month and Democrats slammed the Trump Administration for enriching Larry Ellison, a close ally of the President.
Ellison has now been subpoenaed to come and answer their questions. Quil Laurence and Pianos. The U.S. military says it struck three a radiant oil tankers yesterday after Iran fired at a U.S. aircraft carrier and destroyer. This latest flare-up is affecting energy markets.
David Goldwind and Energy on-void during the Obama administration says the price of diesel for example is affecting the price of just about everything. 75% transportation is diesel in the United States, so as the price of diesel goes up, and jet fuel also for air travel, everything that gets moved around the country and virtually everything in agriculture costs more.
Several fuel prices hit a record high this morning. The average price is 589 per gallon, it was 371 this time last year. And the far-right party known as the alternative for Germany is projected to win a strong
victory in a regional election, the first far-right state governments in World War II.
You're listening to NPR News. New treatments for lung cancer are starting to improve survival rates, and Piers Yuki Naguchi reports on one man living at the cutting edge of treatment. Two years ago Stanford Medical Professor Bryant-Lin was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. A disease he spent his career fighting.
As a patient, Lin has since benefited from a string of recently approved genetic therapies, new combination of drugs, and immune boosting medicines prolonging his life.
“I think the future is really bright because we're creating all of these personalized, specialized”
precision therapeutics for lung cancer. My hope is, before not able to cure lung cancer, we can at least turn it into a chronic disease. While the survival rate for lung cancer overall has doubled in three decades, it's still only a sobering 30% after five years, Yuki Naguchi and PR News. This is not a good time to be an ostrich.
U.S. ostrich farmers say people who have developed a rare red-made allergy triggered by tick bites are finding they can't eat beef anymore, but they can eat ostrich meat. ostrich meat is red when raw and it has a taste that is similar to beef, so it may be a good alternative for those who crave actual red meat. It may not be an economic alternative.
The average cost per pound is $20 to $28. The average cost per pound of ground beef ranges between $5 to $8. Presently, there are only about 10 to 15 ostrich farms in the United States. I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in Washington. As the political landscape shifts beneath our feet, we're all vulnerable to a well-funded
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