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House lawmakers have hit the campaign trail a day earlier than scheduled after a speaker
Mike Johnson cancel vote schedule for today. They included Republican Congressman Thomas Massey's proposal to remove defense secretary Pete Hexeth from office over the U.S. war with Iran. We are the majority. We may only be the majority for six more weeks.
“Why would we be canceling days when the country is burning?”
Johnson called Massey's protestor publicity stunt. He says Massey's resolutions likely to be voted down in the lame duck session. Well, the U.S. House has overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation designed to protect consumers from the soaring energy costs connected to data centers. This coming in a week when tech executives have issued new warnings about AI.
However, President Trump is fiercely promoting AI development and the building of data centers as a means of remaining competitive with China, Trump is due to host Chinese leadership Xi Jinping next week. Homes are collapsing into the water across the U.S. because of erosion exacerbated by sea level rise and P.R.'s Rebecca Hershey reports a federal program gives many owners
no choice but to let their homes fall. The federal emergency management agency, FEMA, provides flood insurance for houses in the U.S. But those insurance policies do little to help the owners of houses that are threatened by rising seas.
“Lisa Sherard is a flood insurance agent in North Carolina.”
The problem is that the policy won't pay until the house suffers a loss.
Even if the house is clearly doomed, owners can't get money from their policy to pay for demolishing it before it falls. FEMA did not respond to questions from NPR about the pollution problems or costs to taxpayers of letting homes fall. A bill that would address the issue is stalled in Congress, Rebecca Hershey and P.R. News.
In Israel, the ruling party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to stop a get-out the vote campaign for Israeli citizens abroad, tens of thousands of Israelis are expected to fly to Israel to vote in next month's elections. And P.R.'s Daniel Lestern has this from Tel Aviv. Israel doesn't allow absentee voting.
A group called the American Israel Democracy Coalition is organizing some charter flights and helping expats book commercial flights to Israel to vote next month. The group is not paying for flights.
“Jonathan Barsade runs the initiative and estimates an unprecedented surge of over 53,000”
Israeli expats flying into vote.
"I like many of the other Israelis see these elections to be very, very critical for its future."
Netanyahu appears worried many of those expats seek to vote him out of office. His party petitioned election officials to disqualify the initiative, accusing it of violating campaign finance laws, Daniel Lestern and P.R. News Tel Aviv. From Washington, this is N.P.R. News. A new Trump administration proposal could strip protections for homeless children trying
to access head start. N.P.R. Sikoye Corrella reports that the nation's largest early education and childcare program for low income families. The new proposal would eliminate a rule that allows head start centers to set aside spots for homeless students and those in the foster care system.
Right now, head start centers can reserve up to 3% of their slots for those families. Advocates worry the change will leave some of most vulnerable children without services. Another change in the proposal would not allow families to simply declare their homeless. They would need to prove it. The administration says the move to take 133 pages of guidelines and reduce it to only
handful is meant to reduce administrative burden on centers. Sikoye Corrella and Pianus. The Labor Department reports last week, jobless claims fell to their lowest level since mid July to 196,000. North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Bellcheck, the son of head coach Bill Bellcheck
has resigned as the school carries out an investigation into the football program. The school has said certain actions demonstrated a disregard for Carolina's values and standards of conduct, however it did not provide specifics of its findings. The investigation was launched in late July. In a statement today, the school says Steve Bellcheck would formally resign at conclusion
of his medical leave late next month. This is N.P.R. News. On the next, do-line from N.P.R. Let's listen to Josh Reddick's new walk-up song. Whether you love it or you hate it, walk-up music has become a huge part of Major League
Baseball. The need to secure and the attention of the fans is relentless. I've thought of my hearing things, I mean, I realize everybody's singing along. Listen to N.P.R. through line in the N.P.R. app or wherever you get your podcasts.
