"Lie from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.
Senators are grilling attorney general nominee, Todd Blanche, about his close ties to
the president.
“NPR's Kerry Johnson reports Blanche, "Once helped to fend President Trump and”
several high-profile criminal cases." Few senators questioned Todd Blanche's qualifications to lead the justice department he served as a prosecutor in New York for years, but it's his work as a personal defense lawyer for President Trump that worries Democrats. They say Blanche lacks independence and is carrying out vendettas against the president's
foes. Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, asked Blanche whether he was Trump's friend. The nominee replied, "I'm his lawyer." Before quickly adding, "I was his lawyer."
Blanche famously said in April that he loves the president and working for him was
quote the honor of a lifetime. Kerry Johnson and PR news, Washington. Other Senate confirmation hearings are being held today for President Trump's nominees. Trump's elected Jay Clayton to have the nation's intelligence agencies and Dr. Erica Schwartz
“so retired rear admiral was nominated to lead the Senators for Disease Control and Prevention.”
A fifth day of retaliatory strikes between the United States and Iran continue to dim prospects for a peace deal. U.S. Central Command says on social media launched a new wave of strikes on Iranian military targets. And after the U.S. announced the reinstatement of a blockade on Iranian ports, the Islamic
Republic, targeted American installations in the Middle East. And PR's time-bown reports on conflict in and around the state of Hormuz, a global oil-shipping waterway. The Iran has hit at least seven commercial ships in the past week, damaging some. The U.S. says nearly a dozen crew members are killed, wounded, or missing.
That has predictably led to ship transit slowing to around a dozen each day, down from 30 or 40 a day, several weeks ago in well below the 130 before the war started. And PR's time-bomb and people in the small city of Bitterford, Maine are still grappling with a fatal ice shooting this week in their community. Main publics are a Snyder spoke with one woman who knew the victim.
Isabelle Padeda says she got to know Doron Guerrero through mutual friends, and that he left a consistent impression.
Pretty much anyone who has had an interaction with him can all basically say the same thing
that she was just a very respectful, dedicated, hardworking family man. Padeda says Doron Guerrero worked primarily as a delivery driver through apps like Uber Eats. Often bringing his three-year-old daughter along with him, she says his death has caused so much anxiety in the city's Latin American immigrant communities that some are considering
moving elsewhere. For NPR News, I'm Ari Snyder. From Washington, this is NPR News. Adding to deadly immigration enforcement encounters in Maine and days earlier in Texas, yesterday morning in Florida, four occupants of a vehicle had a confrontation with federal immigration
officers in the St. Augustine area. Officials say the four fled on foot, one person ran into the path of a semi, and was killed. Emergency personnel have been searching for three missing people after a boat involved in a memorial service sank and rough waters in the San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz island yesterday.
Local investigators say that at least one person was killed, 16 individuals were rescued. Since in Argentina, accounting down to kick off this afternoon, a security is tightened in Atlanta for a match with England, the carries decades of history, Natalie Alcoba has more from Buenos Aires. The rivalry is defined by the 1986 quarter final when Argentina's Diego Maradona's infamous
hand of God goal helped eliminate England. For many Argentines, the victory meant far more than football. It came just four years after the Falklands War, known here as the Malvinas War, over the South Atlantic Islands, Britain and Ministers, but Argentina still claims. Political scientists, Florentia Wolf, says it's impossible to completely separate the
history from today's match.
“"We shouldn't mix both things but I think that in theory, in practice, of course, everything”
is like mixed." For NPR News, I'm Natalie Alcoba in Buenos Aires. "I'm Lakshmi Singh and PR News in Washington." "This is our class at the American Life. Do you know our show?"
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