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Republicans are gathered in Dallas for the closing day of the party's mid-term convention.
“The event highlights President Trump's influence on the party, but Vice President JD”
Vance delivered the keynote speech tonight as the administration tries to boost Republican enthusiasm ahead of the mid-term election. "We've got to send a message this November that the country does not belong to the radicals. It does not belong to the bureaucrats. It does not belong to the highest bidder.
This country was handed down to us by our parents and their parents before them. We received this national birthright and we are going to fight for it by elected Republicans this November." Yesterday at the convention, Trump promised to send every adult citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate.
The proposal would likely cost more than $1 trillion in required congressional approval. The federal debt recently crossed $40 trillion. A federal appeals court has refused to allow a postal service plan that could disrupt mail-in voting for the mid-terms, as MPR's Hansi Lowong reports the Supreme Court's
“expected to weigh in soon with its own ruling.”
"The ruling by a three judge panel of the first U.S. Supreme Court of Appeals keeps the U.S.
postal service blocked for moving ahead with its new requirements for President Trump's attempt to limit mail-in voting. Under those requirements, 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 mail agency and do not have certain barcodes on their ballot envelopes.
We should note U.S.P.S. is a financial support of NPR. A federal judge blocked the new requirements twice. After finding that U.S.P.S. has no authority to impose them on states. Many election experts are concerned the postal service is not ready to enforce these requirements. After a whistleblower report claimed new U.S.P.S. systems have not been properly tested and
could lead to many voters not getting their mail-in ballots in time for the mid-terms
general election, or at all.
On Zee Lowong, NPR News. The Pennsylvania coroner confirmed two more measles related deaths last month involving infants in the state. NPR's Maria Gadori reports the deaths come as the state battles more than 620 cases. Lancaster County coroner Stephen Damontoni says newborn Ivan Miller tested positive for measles,
but died on August 14th from elacerated spleen and measles did not play a role. He said measles did cause the August 18th death of six-week-old Mary Stoltz-Fus, who had a genetic condition that left her vulnerable to infections. Damontoni released the details in response to a records request from a local news station. Our goal as an office is to, you know, objectively provide information across the death
that's or a job, so it's a shame politics enters into it. Health Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania officials of inappropriately linking the deaths to measles to scare Americans. Major U.S. stock indexes sank today after oil prices jumped to their highest level since May, the S.M.P. 500 Dowian NASDAQ fell more than half a percent, it's NPR.
McClatchey media company laid off dozens of journalists at newspapers across the country today, including the Miami Harald, the Charlotte Observer, the Kansas City Star, the Lexington Hero leader, and the Idaho statesman Kentucky Public Radio reports that McClatchey management sent an email to employees sitting with the company was "reshaping its newsroom structure to more closely aligned resources with changing subscriber interests," McClatchey didn't
respond to a request for comment. Home buying is expensive enough before so-called junk fees get involved, NPR's Stephen Bassaha reports on a fee some real estate agents are warning about. These fees can be more than a thousand dollars due at a pocket at closing. They also go by different names like admin fees or document storage fees.
Hina Matlock is an Alabama real estate agent and has a different name for them. "I go and junk fees." She calls them junk because consumers are often already paying north of $10,000 in commission agents, which should cover those expenses.
“"I think it's unreasonable for it to be automatically on the consumer."”
Matlock does not charge a fee, but they are becoming more common in home sales, according to the independent think tank, the consumer policy center. That group recommends challenging these fees before signing a contract. Stephen Bassaha and PR news. "Esao Hari Moton, the baseball grade who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds
Japan's hits record has died. He was 86 years old. Nicknamed the hit machine Hari Moton was the only player in Japan to hit more than 3,000 hits. He was five when he survived the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945. It turned him into an anti-war and nuclear disarmament advocate."
This week on Consider This, the researcher who just resigned from Anthropic, why he believes AI is a threat to humanity. "Very soon, these things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue, it's not going to be good." Plus, his view of what guardrails could look like this week on Consider This from NPR.
