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Senator Mark Wayne Mullin is seeking U.S. Senate confirmation to become the next Secretary
of Homeland Security.
“He first needs to secure the recommendation of the Homeland Security and Governmental”
Affairs Committee. The panel's chairman is Rand Paul. The Republican and Mullin have had beef in the past. Paul reaffirm that today in questioning whether Mullin has the temperament to lead the DHS.
You told the media that I was a frequent snake, and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted. I was shocked that it would justify and celebrate this violent assault. It caused me so much pain in my family, so much pain. I just wonder if someone who uploads violence against their political opponents is the right
person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force. If confirm, Mullin would replace Kristi Nome, who was fired by President Trump following
criticism of a more than $200 million ad campaign in which Nome was featured, however,
“Nome's tenure was also overshadowed by widespread criticism of the DHS's immigration”
enforcement tactics, including confrontations that led to the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. Israel says it has killed another high-ranking Iranian leader. It is a latest and Israeli-airstrikes targeting the country's top officials. Iran's president confirmed the killing overnight of its top intelligence minister on social
media. Separate thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for a mass funeral of the heads of Iran's National Security Council and the powerful Bossege paramilitary police. Here's NPR's carry-con. Defense Minister Israel Kat says Iran's intelligence minister, Esmail Hatib, was responsible for
quote the regime's apparatus of repression and assassination and instrumental in the deadly
crackdown on Iranian demonstrators earlier this year. Kat says the war is in a decisive phase in that quote, "No one in Iran has immunity. Everyone is a target."
“Meanwhile, mourners packed a huge Tehran square for the funerals of two leaders also killed”
by Israel. Life's stream of the massive crowd-carrying multiple coffins was broadcast on Iranian TV, carry-con and PR news to live. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he's worried the more weapons United States uses to fight its war against Iran, the fewer missiles available to help Ukraine defeat
Russia. Zelensky tells the BBC Russian President Vladimir Putin once "long war in the Middle East" because he says it would mean higher energy prices, the depletion of U.S. reserves, and a depletion of resources in Ukraine. U.S. stocks are trading lower this hour.
The Dow Jones industrial average down 470 points are roughly 1%. This is NPR News. Brassic cuters and Arizona have file criminal charges against the popular betting site Calshapen years NPR's Bobby Allen. Calshian Polymarket absolutely can bet on just about anything, are facing more than 20
losses over their legal status as a future contract, not gambling sites. But now Arizona's attorney general is accusing Calshian of operating an unlicensed gambling operation involved in criminal weightoring on sports and elections. It's the latest sign of a growing rift between states and the Trump administration, which supports the prediction market industry.
Donald Trump Jr. the President's son is an advisor to both Calshian and Polymarket. Calshian says the charges are seriously flawed and meritless. Calshian says it's billions of dollars in weekly bets fall under exclusive federal jurisdiction. Bobby Allen and PR News. Firefighters in Western Nebraska are trying to contain four wildfires that have
burned more than 800,000 acres. Macy buyers reports on how affected farmers and ranchers are coping. Though his home was saved by firefighters, rancher Owen Johnson says courrals, fencing sheds and dozens of hay bales burned when the wildfire swept through his property.
He had to let his livestock loose to escape, losing a stallion and a calf in the chaos. If I had to turn my horses out and let them survive out here, they wouldn't. They're not enough grass left to feed them for a day. As far as you can see, it's just block everything's just block and burned, burned everything. Johnson has no idea what it will take to recover.
Across the four wildfires, loss of grazing land and farm structures have hit Nebraska ranchers hard. For NPR News, I'm Macy buyers in Lincoln, Nebraska. You're listening to NPR News.
