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The U.S. Supreme Court has put a more democratic leaning map back in place for now in Missouri.
St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports that the High Court dealt a blow to a President Trump back effort to draw more GOP districts. President Trump successfully pressured Missouri Republicans to redraw their congressional lines in 2025 to house Democratic Congressmen, a manual cleaver. But redistricting opponents successfully put that map up for a statewide vote, which meant
it couldn't be used this year. The U.S. Supreme Court stayed a federal judge's temporary restraining order to have the 2025 map used in the November elections. Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Russ Karnahan says his party has stood strong against the GOP and Trump.
“"I think there's a bit of relief that we still need to get our election underway.”
While a map for a safe seat for Cleaver is in place for now, the case could return to the federal courts. From PR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum in St. Louis." President Trump's pledging $5,000 cash dividends to every American adult. If Republicans hold their congressional majority in November's elections.
If he follows through on the promising aid last night at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, the one-time payout would cost taxpayers $1.23 trillion, surpassed only by the $1.6 trillion cost for social security. David Wessel is a director of the Hutchins Center at the Center left-leaning Brookings Institution.
"We have sent checks to people before we did that during the COVID pandemic, but that was in an emergency and we're not in that kind of emergency now." Wessel accuses President Trump of trying to bribe people into voting Republican in November.
“The administration argues anyone could benefit no matter how they vote.”
The latest polls in Israel show a statistical tie in the race to determine which party governs the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing his toughest challenge yet ahead of the October 27th vote. Here's NPR's Kary Khan.
"Pulse Bay Israel's main television channel, Shonetanyahu and political newcomer, Gady Eisenkhut, Neted Heat, the former military chief of staff is tapping into voter frustration with Netanyahu, including Israel's perpetual wars and lack of inquiry into security failings before the October 7th Hamas led attack. To govern both men will likely need to farm coalitions with other parties giving the group's
outsized political influence. Many are small with ultra-right religious and nationalist genders or represent Israel's Arab population. If he wins Netanyahu pledges to quote, "complete the job in Israel's ongoing military
“conflicts, block a future Palestinian state and overhaul the judiciary handling his corruption”
trial." Kary Khan and PR news tell a leave. You're listening to NPR News. Oregon Public broadcasting reports University of Washington researchers will seek clearance from the Food and Drug Administration to move their vaccine for fentanyl into human trials.
It says Oregon and Washington state have some of the highest overdose death rates in the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, in 2023, more than three-quarters of drug overdose deaths in the United States involved opioids. However death rates have declined.
Researchers say they are planning a second excavation at Colorado Ziegler Reservoir next
summer. The site is recognized as the richest high-altitude ice-age ecosystem ever discovered. Reagan Murtz with Aspen Public Radio Hashtetales In 2010, a construction crew uncovered a mammoth test, while digging to expand the Ziegler Reservoir in Stomass Village. The Denver Museum went on to uncover more than 35,000 animal bones representing 85,000 years
at history. Sarah Stooky Sanchez of Stomass Tourism says archaeologists hoped to discover more fossils and conduct new research to provide context for the plants, insects, and animals discovered over a decade ago. "No, it's how many areas of things we're going to find out there.
It's going to be pretty major."
Researchers from the first day will return to consult on the second one.
For NPR News, I'm Reagan Murtz and Aspen Colorado. The National Association of Realtors reports existing home sales in August, sold at their slowest annual pace in more than a year. It's NPR News. This week on here and now any time, 25 years after 9/11, we asked you how your life changed.
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