Hansi Lewong
speaker
1,358 appearances
173 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 2d ago
Hansi Lewong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 138 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 52.
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And that's destabilizing the U.S.
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Postal Service, which generally receives no tax dollars to keep it running.
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USPS relies instead on selling stamps and other service fees.
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The Postal Regulatory Commission recently approved temporary price hikes of close to 6 percent for certain USPS shipping services starting next month.
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Like those put in place by FedEx and UPS, those increases are set to last through the year-end holiday season.
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Anzhi Luang, NPR News.
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In a friend of the court brief for a lawsuit over Louisiana's map of congressional districts, the Justice Department argues the Voting Rights Act's longstanding legal protections against racial discrimination and redistricting are no longer constitutional.
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The DOJ's filing comes months after it started stepping away from multiple voting rights lawsuits that were first brought during former President Joe Biden's administration.
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A series of rulings by the Supreme Court's conservative majority have already weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Now many of the law's advocates fear that the rare second round of oral arguments the court has ordered for this Louisiana case on October 15th could be setting up a decision that ends key remaining protections for minority voters.
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Anzila Wong, NPR News.
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Before starting to lead the largest federal statistical agency, George Cook worked as a quote institutional investor and economic analyst.
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That's according to a Census Bureau staff email shared with NPR.
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Federal law requires the Bureau's permanent director to have a demonstrated ability in managing large organizations and experience in collecting statistical data.
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Some census advocates are concerned Cook has no obvious qualifications to head the Bureau as it prepares for a national headcount that's set to determine how many congressional house seats and electoral college votes each state gets after 2030.
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The Fourteenth Amendment says that count must include the quote whole number of persons in each state.
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President Trump has revived a call to exclude people living in the states without legal status.
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Hanzi LeWong, NPR News.
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Two California Democrats, Representative Joe Lofgren and Senator Alex Padilla, are leading this reintroduction of a bill banning the redrawing congressional district maps at this point, unless it's ordered by a court.
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Padilla says the bill would also ban redistricting that favors or disfavors a political party and requires states to use independent redistricting commissions to draw congressional voting maps.
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