Live from NPR News in Washington, on Ryland Barton, Republicans are gathering...
for an unusual two-day mid-term convention.
It's a first for the party and puts President Trump at the center of attention as his approval
declines amid the around war and high gas prices. In Texas's race for U.S. Senate, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxson is in a close race against Democrat James Taloreco, despite the state's long history of electing Republicans. During the convention, Paxson asked attendees for financial support. He is the most radical Democrat in Texas history, but he's also the most well-funded.
“And that's why today, I need your prayers, your votes, and your support.”
Taloreco hosted a food drive in Dallas in the attempt to contrast with the convention. The battle over mid-Zirri's congressional districts has returned to the U.S. Supreme Court just two months before the mid-term elections. Any Missouri voters are unsure which U.S. House districts they'll vote in and which candidates will appear on the ballots.
Federal appeals court panels signed with "sided" with Republicans today, supporting a new map backed by President Trump, but the decision was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court. A congressional committee is recommending the Pentagon to develop a program to address brain injuries and pair's cloudy-grace-soluble reports that's part of an investigation into suicides among
Navy pilots. 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. The House Committee recommended a new Pentagon program dedicated to aviator brain health,
cutting barriers to care in ramping up long-term health care studies of Navy pilots. Claudio de Salis and Pierre-Nous. Record-high fuel prices are driving up shipping costs and PR's Scott Horcer reports on how that's being felt at the busy port of Los Angeles.
More than half a million cargo containers came into the port of LA last month as U.S.
retailer stocked up for the holiday shopping season. Two-thirds of those shipping containers leave the port on the back of a truck. The price of diesel fuels hit a record high nationwide, and it's even higher in Southern
“California where Port Director Jean Cerroca says diesel selling for nearly $8 a gallon.”
Everybody's running as fast as they can, but the higher these fuel prices go, just simply mean higher prices for American families. Escalating tensions in the U.S. war with Iran have pushed crude oil prices higher. The cost of refining oil in the diesel fuel is also at record levels. Scott Horcerly and Pierre-Nous Washington.
Major U.S. stock indexes felt today, the S&P 500 lost nearly half a percent, it's NPR. A federal appeals court is considering Louisiana's attempt to ban the abortion pill myth a pristone from being dispensed to anywhere but a medical facility, in case is one of three making its way through the courts and could affect how the pill is distributed across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court has already said the current rules will remain
in effect until the case is resolved. Dozens of public schools and Massachusetts closed early this week due to an ongoing cyber
attack impacting critical systems.
It's just one of the latest examples of hackers increasingly disrupting everyday life. It isn't an inclement weather or a pandemic that has kept thousands of students home in Springfield, Massachusetts early in the new school year. Workers have prevented school administrators from accessing third-party systems, where health data and students' medications and allergies are kept on file.
Springfield mayor Dominic Sarno says progress has been made and the investigation is ongoing, but he would not say whether cyber criminals were holding data for ransom. If we have to, which could be necessary, it's back to the future, we'll go back to pen and paper. A cyber criminals' activists and nation-state target vulnerable American critical infrastructure
from water systems to schools, these disruptions have become the new normal. General Glawlin and PR News. Paps Blue Ribbon is offering up to $20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of 1,600 and 2 stolen cases of PBR and non-alcoholic old Milwaukee beer, police and Mont Clare, California, said the beer was stolen last month from a warehouse
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