This NPR News segment covers four major stories: the U.S. Postal Service appealing a court ruling on President Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions, a promising year-long gene-editing treatment for cholesterol, Federal Reserve signals of a potential interest rate hike, and a deadly chemica
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