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Mail in voting for the midterm election has started in North Carolina and Wisconsin.
But in Pierre's Hansella Wong reports, some eligible voters are considering other ways of voting to prepare for a Supreme Court ruling on President Trump's push for new restrictions. Kelsey Kiper is a military spouse who is voted by mail for years. But for the mid-Surms, she's considering booking flights and rental cars who she can vote at the polls.
I'm looking at maybe spending between $1,700 and $2,000 to fly there.
“I think that it's important to prioritize the rights that are active duty members are”
serving to preserve. Piper says she's worried about knock-on effects if the Supreme Court allows a U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver mail-in-bals to voters in states where election officials
do not turn over voters to the mail agency and do not have certain barcodes in their ballot
envelopes. We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR. In the election experts say the U.S. P.S. plan could disenfranchise many disabled voters and those living in places without polling sites on Zila Wong and Tjar News. The U.S. atomic watchdog ward today reported Iran to the U.S. Security Council over its
failure to cooperate in the long-running investigation into uranium traces that inspectors detected at undeclared sites. The resolution was put forward by the U.S. UK, France and Germany, China and Russia opposed it.
“As the U.S. war in Iran escalates, with the U.S. targeting five Iranian oil tankers last”
night and Iran attacking American targets in Jordan, now that sent oil and fuel prices
even higher today. International benchmark Brent Crude is over $101 a barrel today and West Texas Crude, the U.S. benchmark has surpassed $96 a barrel. The average price of a gallon of gas is also higher at $4.22 a day diesel is at a record of $5.94 a gallon, but President Trump says right after the mid-term elections, oil prices
will quote "tumbled out" and the gas will be below $2 a gallon. He made that claim just now to reporters as he heads to Texas for the Republican Party's mid-term convention. A congressional committee is recommending that the Pentagon developed a new program to address brain injuries among naval aviators, and here's Claudia Goodisallis reports.
The House Oversight Committee said it found that Navy has not taken the necessary steps to determine if it is systematically exposing their pilots to long-term brain injury, a probe found that Navy ignored warnings that on the job physiological and psychological injuries could put pilots at risk of mental health struggles and suicide. They also found Navy culture discouraged aviators from seeking mental health care.
The congressional effort was launched after the New York Times found a pattern of suicides and related difficulties among pilots. And Pierce Claudia Goodisallis reporting, you're listening to NPR News from Washington. In New Hampshire, Republican John Sanunu, who has the backing of President Trump, will face Democrat Chris Poppas in November in the race to replace retiring Senator Jean Shaheen.
“It's a crucial seat the Democrats need to hold to have a chance of flipping control”
of the chamber in the mid-term election. It's the new new who has represented the state in both the House and the Senate, was outstead from the Senate by Shaheen in 2008, poppas the moderate beat a member of the Democratic Socialists of America in the primary. An early play by Pulitzer Prize-winning best wall is coming to Broadway with a starry cast
in the spring among the actors, Argyllia Roberts and Paul Rudd. Jeff London reports, "There isn't much dialogue." Smallmouth Sounds, which premiered off Broadway in 2015, takes place in a silent retreat in Upstate New York, so most of the plot, which is about people dealing with deep personal issues, is conveyed in gestures movement and, yes, smallmouth sounds.
The Broadway debut, which will open in March, is directed by Tony Winner Joe Mantello, who will also direct down state in the fall, a play about men who live in a group home for convicted sex offenders. The lead producer for both plays is Scott Ruddon, who has returned to Broadway after taking time off to deal with his abusive workplace behavior.
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