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Mail invoting for the mid-term election is underway in some states, including Alabama, North
Carolina and Wisconsin.
“But as NPR sounds, a low-wong report, selection officials around the country are still”
waiting for a Supreme Court ruling on President Trump's push for new restrictions. The Supreme Court is deciding whether to allow the U.S. Postal Service to refuse to deliver mail and bounce to voters in states where election officials do not turn over voterless to the mail agency and do not have certain barcoats on their ballot envelopes. We should note U.S. P.S. is a financial supporter of NPR.
A federal judge blocked those requirements after finding the postal service has no authority to impose them. Tammy Patrick of the National Association of Election Officials says many voters can prepare now. No matter what has changed in your state or how you decide you want to go and vote, make a plan
early and don't wait until the last day of the polls. Still Patrick says the U.S. P.S. plan would put some voters at risk of losing the ability to exercise their right to vote, including many disabled voters and those living in places without polling sites. On Z-L-Wong NPR News.
Iran says it will attend a regional meeting of foreign ministers of countries in the Persian Gulf.
“The Iranian Foreign Ministry says that eight foreign ministers will be attending to discuss issues”
around the straight-of-four moves, which Iran has blockaded since the beginning of the war with the U.S. And P.S. Huddel El-Shalci reports. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baka'i, announced that the meeting of foreign
ministers will take place in Oman next week. He said the foreign ministers of Iran, Iraq, and other Arab states on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and the sea of Oman will be attending. He said that the meeting will address negotiations Iran and Oman have been part of to reach an agreement to temporarily reopen the straight-of-harm moves.
The Iranian blockade of the straight has affected global oil supplies. U.S. Diesel prices hit a new American high at an average of $6 a gallon this week. And do you allow Shalci and P.R. News Istanbul? A major pipeline that carries crude oil across the Saudi peninsula to the Red Sea has been
shut down.
“Officials in Saudi Arabia say the move is a precaution after Houthi rebels captured an island”
of the southern end of the Red Sea. The Houthi's have been supporting Iran by periodically firing on ships in the region. President Trump is continuing to promise that gas prices will come down after the midterm elections. But he is not explained just how that will happen.
This prices remain above $4 a gallon since the U.S. war against Iran began and diesel costs have hit a new record. And Americans in every state are feeling the effects of the war, even if they don't drive. That's because many of the goods purchased in the U.S. are moved around the country using
diesel. Arizona trucker Daniel Wood says he and his family are hurting. One fill-up was over $1,000, and when this price is just skyrocket like this, it takes food out of the amounts of your children. In crude prices, meanwhile, it's the International Oil Standard.
They fell by 2.8 percent to $101.61.
This is NPR News. The UN Security Council voted Friday to extend the current arms embargo on Sudan's western Darfur region. The vote came as negotiations continue. On a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country.
The U.S. says the current embargo is insufficient to bring the three-year-old conflict to an end. But Russia has said it will block any expansion of the embargo. Nintendo of America is using tariff refunds for a sale that starts Sunday. MPR Steven Besah reports that while companies have received more than $100 billion back,
many have been reluctant to offer customers' refunds. Nintendo says it will offer up to 30 percent off on some digital games in savings of other products like clothes. The Japan-based company is facing a U.S. class-action lawsuit from customers demanding direct refunds.
Nintendo responded in court filing saying it does not have an obligation to offer refunds, and customers paid those higher prices willingly. The company said in the sales announcement that it absorbed most of the tariff costs, but the refunds help make this sale possible. Other companies like Walmart have also said though past long-tare of savings, not through
custom refunds, but lower prices, though they haven't offered details yet. Steven Besahab and Pure News.
Alexander Zavarif will be playing for his second Grand Slam title this year, after beating
Karen Hatchenoff, Friday 637676 in the U.S. open semi-funnels. He'll be playing in Sunday's finals against Belt Shelton, who beat Francis T. F. O. for late Friday night, the U.S. is looking for his first men's Grand Slam since 2003. I'm Dale Willman, NPR News. This is Ira Glass.
On this American life, we tell stories about when things change, like for this guy David, who's an entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant term, and it did take me a while to realize it's basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right, because the monkey pressed the button.
