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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch is President Trump's pick to be the nation's next Attorney General.
“At a White House event Wednesday night, the President said he intends to nominate Blanch”
Thursday. Before joining the Justice Department, Blanch was Trump's personal attorney, and was elevated to the acting role after the President fired Pam Bondi this spring.
Democrats have been critical of Blanch's performance as the nation's top law enforcement
official. For House Republicans joined every Democrat Wednesday to pass for the first time a war powers resolution that would halt U.S. military action in Iran. How speaker Mike Johnson who tried to prevent an outcome that would show mounting opposition to the war, New York Congressman Gregory Meeks is the ranking Democrat on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee. He says President Trump has failed to explain the war to the American people. "They still have an eye at all, just as younger. They still have weapons." And this failed to publish his clothes.
“If the measure ever gets to President Trump's desk, he would likely reject it and”
veto it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has wrapped up two days of congressional hearings
protestors shouted "free Palestine" and one Senator pressed Rubio about Israeli violence
in the West Bank, and PR's Michelle Kelliman reports. Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkle is sounding the alarm about Jewish settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, saying they're trying to separate Palestinian villagers from their farms and sources of water. Secretary Rubio tells the Senator that he's race concerns about this repeatedly with the Israeli government.
And it's already a tender box over there. The last thing we need is to throw one more match into that fire. And that's the point we've made to them repeatedly on the West Bank. I appreciate you making that point. And I encourage us to press that very hard because it's a very unjust situation.
Senator Merkle says the U.S. should also press Israel to allow international journalists into Gaza, Michelle Kelliman, and B.R. News, the State Department. New Jersey's governor, Mike Lee Cheryl, is struggling to manage fierce outcry over how the state police handled protesters over the weekend outside of an ice facility. Michael Saul Warren of the member of Station, the U.N. Y.C. reports.
Governor Cheryl says New Jersey's attorney general will look into possible incidents of state police brutality against protesters in North. Cheryl fielded calls on WNYC Wednesday from people who said they'd been harmed when state troopers cleared protesters from the area around the Delaney Hall Ice Detention Center. If there were incidences like that, the attorney general will be looking into that.
The governor says state police were deployed to lower tensions after the Trump administration threatened to surge ice into the Garden State last week. For MPR News, I'm Michael Saul Warren in Montclair. Stacks closed lower. This is NPR. The race for the two top spots in California's jungle primary for Governor remains too close
to call. Republican Steve Hilton has a narrow lead over the Democratic Xavier Bacera under California's primary system. The two top candidates were a guardless of political party advanced to the general election in November. Bacera is a former attorney general of California and also served in the Biden administration as health secretary, Hilton Hilton is a former Fox News commentator.
NASA is officially ending one of the Mars missions as Joe Palco reports. The space agency lost contact with a probe called "Mavent" more than six months ago. Mavent is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Valtal Evolution. The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian Atmosphere has largely
disappeared over the last three to four billion years.
A change that turned the planet into the dry, cold place it is today. The spacecraft has been collecting data and sending it to Earth since it went into orbit around Mars more than a decade ago. But last December, a brief radio signal indicated the craft had suddenly started spinning out of control.
That meant it was no longer able to point its solar panels towards the sun and that meant the batteries went dead, making the probe inoperable. For NPR News, I'm Joe Palco. The New York Nix Wednesday night won the first game in the NBA Finals with a strong fourth quarter effort to beat the Santa Antonio spurs on their home court in Texas.
The final score of New York 105 San Antonio 95 Game 2 is Friday night in San Antonio. This is NPR News. Support for NP. The surreal horror film "Back Rooms" is a smash. The director is a 20-year-old YouTuber and it's based on his popular web series.
“Why is this online phenomenon taking off at the box office?”
We get into it on NPR's pop culture happy hour. This and via the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
