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0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. U.S. Special on-boys Steve Wittkoff and Jared Kushner will visit Moscow in Kiev this weekend in a new push to end the war in Ukraine. President Trump says the two will present what he calls a concrete peace proposal. The White House has not disclosed its terms. The BBC's Joe Inwood reports. Jared Kushner and Steve Wittkoff, who have represented the U.S. President at a wide range of negotiations with varying degrees of success, a due to meet leaders of both countries to find a way to end more than four years of fighting. President Zelensky has suggested a limited ceasefire over the weekend, saying there will be no airstrikes on our part. Moscow has yet to respond. Donald Trump came to power, promising to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours. Speaking in the Oval Office last night, he said there might be a good chance that peace could be achieved. The BBC's Joe Inwood reporting. A federal judge in Boston has again blocked the U.S. Postal Services plan to follow in order

1:04by President Trump. The order seeks to restrict mail-in voting for the interim elections. MPR's Hansi Lowong reports the Supreme Court is already set to review the Postal Services plan. The ruling by U.S. District Judge and dear to Wani effectively extends an earlier court order, stopping the U.S. Postal Service from moving head with key parts of its plan. The U.S. Postal Service is a financial supporter of NPR. The Postal Services plan involves delivering mail-in ballots only to people on voter lists that the states would have to turn over to the mail agency. Judge Tawani found that plan is likely illegal because U.S. P.S. has no authority to control voting by mail. While the legal fight continues, mail-in voting for the midterm general election has officially started, with North Carolina just beginning to send out its absentee ballots. Hansi Lowong and PR News. Prosecutors are weighing whether to retry Lindsey Clancy after her murdered case ended in a mistrial in Massachusetts yesterday. Plumeth County District Attorney Tim Cruz says the case should remain focused on the

2:04deaths of her three children. This case is not about a health care system or about how women are treated in it or what's diagnoses are around the DSM or what they're not. Those are all important issues. This case, however, was about Lindsey Clancy and what she did on January 24, 2023 and the cruel and calculated killing of three innocents. Clancy's civil attorney, Rosemary Skipitio, says the mistrial should force broader scrutiny of how women with postpartum and maternal mental health problems are treated. We need to make things right. We need to make sure that when they're as postpartum or maternal mental health that these doctors start listening to women because that's not what they're doing right now. And they're doing a disservice to the entire population of women that need care after they have a child. The case is scheduled to return to court on September 29. This is NPR News. President Trump has signed executive orders aimed at strengthening the U.S. beef industry

3:05and reducing the influence of the country's biggest meat packers. The administration also wants new labeling standards for beef sold in the U.S. Trump says the government will create a program allowing ranchers to sell more of their products directly to consumers. He says the goal is to give producers more options. Major storms caused a billion dollars worth of damage in Hawaii this spring. Now the island stayed as contending with a series of hurricanes. Hawaii Public Radio, Savannah, Harryman Poet has more. Hawaii was still recovering from bat-to-bat spring storms when Hurricane Lala sideswiped the state in August. Emergency officials are working to tally the losses from Lala so far they've assessed more than $83 million in damage. Now Hurricane Loll is expected to bring more rain to the island's early next week. Climate scientists Adam Smith, Trats major weather events which are occurring more frequently. Back in the 1980s the United States would go roughly three months between billion dollar

4:08disasters in the last decade. It's closer to every three weeks. He says with climate change more states may have multiple billion dollar disasters in one year, making it harder to recover. Friend PR news, I'm Savannah, Harryman Poet. Serena and Venus Williams are out of the U.S. open women's doubles tournament after a three hour first round battle. It was their first U.S. open doubles appearance together in four years. I'm Lisa Johnson and PR news in Washington. As the political landscape shifts beneath our feet, we're all vulnerable to a well-funded distraction economy determined to take our eye off the bomb. Our weekly politics series if you can keep it is here to help where our focus is not the forced race. But the state. We tackle the big political stories of the day and why they matter for our democracy. Join me Todd Zwilland and me Jen White on the 1A Podcast from WAMU and NPR.