Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.
President Trump nominated Todd Blanch for Attorney General today.
“Blanch is Trump's former personal attorney.”
He's been serving as acting attorney general since Pam Bondi's removal earlier this year. He's moved quickly to pursue the president's agenda, including directing investigations into many of Trump's perceived enemies. The Senate will need to confirm Blanch. The Iranian military says it is halting its offensive on Israel after it traded strikes
with Israel yesterday, Tehran had warned it would retaliate after Israel struck the southern suburbs of Bay Route in response to rocket fire from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah. And Piers had deal-else-shaltchi reports. Iran halted its military operations after President Trump said Israel and Iran are "looking to do an immediate ceasefire."
Trump posted that the negotiation to end the war was moving along, "subject to ignorance or stupidity getting in its way." But in Iran some say they're getting used to what seems like an endless war. A 28-year-old man who didn't want to give his name due to the risk of arrest for speaking to foreign media says some Iranians felt abandoned.
When the world is busy with the World Cup, we are busy with the World War, he says. He accuses Iran of sacrificing its people for the sake of the Iranian-backed militant group, Hezbollah. He deal-alshaltchi and PR news.
“Key races for Congress will test how much voters are willing to embrace candidates with scandals”
in their past, as MPR's Barbara Sprunt reports scandals that would have upended campaigns now don't seem to stick. There was a time when scandal was a death now for a political career, but Brandon Rodding House, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, says these days, some politicians are more likely to lean into a scandal.
A lot of politicians will simply frame a scandal as a partisan attack or a misinformation or as a witch hunt that helps rally their base. He says the strategy leverages a deep distrust in the media, and a hyperpolarized environment where partisanship outweighs everything else. Barbara Sprunt and PR news, Washington New York officials say they're creating free watch
parties for World Cup fans after sky-high ticket prices and PR's brine man reports. New York Governor Kathy Huckle acknowledged Monday most soccer fans have been priced out of attending these games with some seats that New York New Jersey Stadium costing thousands of dollars. Most New Yorkers are probably not getting tickets to the stadium, but we want them to share
in the sheer joy of this. Free public watch parties are being created around New York State. With New York City mayors are on Mombani saying giant TV screens will be erected in central park for the final match July 19th. 50,000 people having a chance to watch the final of the World Cup together for free
in the most iconic park in the world.
“I think it's something that deserves to be celebrated in.”
Maybe to turn these general and New York and New Jersey have also announced an investigation into FIFA's high ticket prices, Brian Mann and PR News, New York. Wall Street held steadier today and recovered some of its sell-off from last week. This is NPR News.
A powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the southern Philippines today, triggering landslides
causing buildings to collapse in killing at least 35 people. The Pacific tsunami warning center lifted its alert hours after the quake. The annual Kids Count report is out today, a study of how well the nation's kids are doing. It shows improvements in child poverty, but as NPR's Genaki Mehta reports, there were
setbacks in education. For nearly four decades, the NEKC Foundation has tracked the overall well-being of children, based on 16 different measures across economics, health and family, community and education. The latest report gives a snapshot of how kids fared in 2024, and unfortunately, three of the four education measures got worse when compared to 2019.
Math and reading proficiency, as well as preschool attendance, all showed declines.
The good news is that more high school students are graduating on time, 87 percent, that's
up one point from 2023, and two states made progress in education, Louisiana and Mississippi, while South Carolina, state stable, Genaki Mehta and PR News. The NEKC Foundation is a financial supporter of NPR. An amateur historian has lost a prized artifacts tied to Abraham Lincoln after he left a folder on the roof of his car and drove off from Connecticut College, according to
Connecticut Insider, the documents included in invitation to the 1864 inaugural ball and a letter discussing Lincoln's assassination from General William Sherman. He thinks someone likely picked up the folder and he hopes it will be returned. I'm Ryle and Barton, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. Every episode of it's been a minute, NPR is what's happening in culture podcast, starts
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