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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. The Category 5 Hurricane Melissa is drawing closer to Jamaica. The storm is packing top winds of 175 mph and could be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record-keeping began in 1851. Here's NPR's Rebecca Herscher.
Chapter 2: What impact does Hurricane Melissa have on Jamaica?
Hurricanes happen every year in the Caribbean. Jamaica has obviously been hit by lots of storms over the years. This is just the first time a storm of this magnitude has hit the island head-on since modern records began. But storms like this one are getting more likely. You know, climate change makes large, powerful storms more common. It also makes very rainy storms more likely.
So if you live in the Caribbean, you know, Hurricane Central, you are more and more likely over the years to find yourself staring down a really scary hurricane like Melissa at some point in your life.
Forecasters are warning of catastrophic flooding, landslides and widespread damage. More than 100 lawyers who held leadership roles at the Justice Department are condemning the case against former FBI Director Jim Comey. NPR's Kerry Johnson reports that the attorneys say they're coming together in bipartisan fashion because they're worried about the rule of law.
The unusual group includes former attorneys general and their top deputies. They're speaking with one voice to warn about the prosecution of former FBI director Jim Comey. Their new friend of the court brief says that case appears to be motivated by President Trump's animosity and a dangerous exercise of the power to prosecute. Comey's pleaded not guilty to charges of misleading Congress.
He's trying to get the case thrown out by arguing he's the target of a vindictive or selective prosecution. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
An Arizona state judge is allowing a lawsuit by the Republican National Committee to go forward with its challenge to the voting rights of some U.S. citizens who cast ballots from outside the country. NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports that the lawsuit is among the latest Republican efforts to restrict voting by overseas U.S. citizens.
Arizona is one of 37 states that allow voting by U.S. citizens who are born abroad and have never lived in the United States, and sometimes because their U.S. citizen parents or legal guardians served abroad in the U.S. military. Laws in certain states allow overseas non-resident voters to register if a relative last lived there before leaving the country.
The Republican National Committee, however, is now arguing in court that Arizona's 20-year-old state law violates the state's constitution and, quote, "...inflicts a competitive injury on the party." by adding to voter rolls U.S. citizens who are disproportionately non-Republican. Republican efforts to restrict voting by U.S.
citizens living abroad began last year with last-minute lawsuits challenging ballots in swing states. The push comes as data shows this voting population is becoming less military and more civilian. Anzela Wong, NPR News.
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