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Board says all five people killed in Sunday's crash involving an Amazon cargo plane at
“Miami International Airport were in vehicles on the ground. The plane ran off the end of”
a runway while landing on a flight from San Juan Puerto Rico and slammed into a van and SUV sparking flames. The head of the NTSB Jennifer Hammody says the investigation is in the very early stages. "We have begun collecting investigative information. We do have data and information but we are very thorough, fact-based agency and we don't release that information until we have verified it." The van was struck was carrying members of a cleaning crew
report when it was hit by the Boeing 767. Elections officials across the U.S. and millions of voters are waiting for court rulings on a plan by the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail-in voting for the November midterm elections. NPR's Hansi Lowang says a federal judge is blocking sections of that plan for now.
The Trump administration has asked both the Supreme Court and the first U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals to clear the way for new requirements from the U.S. Postal Service
“for the President's attempt to limit mail-in voting. An issue is whether U.S. P.S. has”
the authority to refuse the deliver mail-in ballots to voters in states where election officials do not turn over voter list to the mailing agency and do not have certain barcodes in their ballot envelopes. We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial support of NPR. A federal judge extended a block on those requirements last week after finding that U.S. P.S. has no authority to impose them on states. An a whistleblower report claims the Postal
Service's systems for enforcing those requirements have not been properly tested and could do rail mail-in voting for the midterm general election, which has already started in North Carolina. Honzee Lowang and Fjarnews. The Labor Department's Office of Inspector General says former Labor Secretary Laurie Chavez Deremer oversaw hostile work environment during her time there. She resigned in April
as NPR's Andrea Xu reports.
“The investigation began within anonymous complaint that the Labor Secretary was contributing”
to a hostile work environment, engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a member of her security team and had subordinates performing tasks for her personal benefit among other allegations. Investigators found merit in all of them. The report says Chavez Deremer was seemingly aware that senior members of her staff threatened and demeaned other workers and yet she failed to take action. Investigators also concluded she did have an unprofessional
relationship with an agent assigned to protect her, compromising security protocols. In a statement Chavez Deremer's attorney pointed out the report did not find she broke any laws, Andrea Xu and PR news. This is NPR News from Washington.
Canadian tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of U.S. goods went into effect this morning,
hundreds of American products are being slapped with levees ranging from 15 percent to 50 percent. They include steel, aluminum, appliances, clothing and farm equipment. Canada's Prime Minister announced the tariffs last month in response to tariffs imposed by President Trump on the same value of Canadian goods imported by the US. This is primary day in New Hampshire where voters are choosing candidates for seats in Congress, the state legislature and for governor.
Within a dozen candidates, Republican and Democratic are vying for the Senate seat being vacated by Democratic Senator Jean Chahine. She's not running for reelection. The summer box office season has been won for the record books and PR's Bob Mandelo reports. For close followers of movie box office numbers, this summer has been a nail biter. Hollywood counts summer as the weeks between the first Friday in May and Labor Day by that standard
history's biggest box office summer was 2013 when Iron Man 3 of Tony Stark.
That a parade of blockbusters to collective ticket sales are just over $4.75 billion. The
theater data firm Rintrak now projects a spider-man brand new day. My name is Peter Parker and a fresh parade of blockbusters will have collected $4.76 billion a new record. It comes with an asterisk. Audience found this for premium formats like IMAX has inflated ticket prices since 2013, so those dollars represent fewer patrons attendance while up for recent years is still well below pre-pandemic levels, Bob Mandelo and PR News.
I'm Dave Madagley in Washington. 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
