"Li," from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi, saying.
Members of the U.S. Senate are weighing weather to advance the nominations of three of President
Trump's nominees.
“Dr. Erica Schwartz, to head up the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,”
Jay Clayton to leave the nation's intelligence agencies, and, Todd Blanch, the acting attorney General, who's trying to turn his job as the interim leader of the Justice Department into a permanent one. As NPR is Kerry Johnson reports, Blanch previously helped defend President Trump in several high-profile criminal cases.
Few senators questioned Todd Blanch's qualifications to lead the Justice Department, 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 Blanch lacks independence and is carrying out vendetta against the President's
post, Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, asked Blanch whether he was Trump's
friend. The nominee replied, "I'm his lawyer. Before quickly adding, I was his lawyer."
“Blanch famously said in April that he loves the President and working for him was "the”
honor of a lifetime." Kerry Johnson, NPR News, Washington. Negligations from 65 countries are expected to be at the State Department tomorrow for a conference on the rise of political terrorism. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports the Trump administration is focusing on left-wing groups.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that far-left political terrorism is on the rise in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, and beyond, and he calls this a blind spot for law enforcement.
A State Department official tells reporters left-wing violence is rising to levels that
haven't been seen since the 1970s. Rubio is bringing together experts from around the world for a one-day conference on this to better map the threat and come up with ways to counter it, though many in Europe have raised alarms about right-wing political violence that is not a focus of this conference.
“Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.”
Inflation at the wholesale level "cooled last month," NPR has got horsesley reports on the latest data from the Labor Department. Rises at the wholesale level in June were up five and a half percent from a year ago. That's a smaller annual increase than the previous month. Holesale prices actually dip between May and June by three tens of percent.
Retail prices show to similar decline last month, thanks in part, to falling gasoline prices. Renewed tensions in the straight-of-war moves, however, are once again pushing gas prices higher, tripalases the average price of regular gas rose three cents a gallon overnight, while diesel prices jump by nickel a gallon. Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington.
Clinton and Argentina are fighting this hour for a spot in Sunday's FIFA World Cup final whoever wins today, play Spain who defeated France, too, now. From Washington, this is NPR News. The federal government is proposing that management of the nation's grizzly bare population be returned to states that have met certain benchmarks for protecting grizzly populations.
Some are spot with Wyoming Public Radio says environmental groups are not pleased with the idea. Grizzlies in the lower 48 states have largely been on the endangered species list since 1975. Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon says it's time that changes. "It's not a dangerous place, and why I say that is it's time to just bear graduates. It has excelled in its recovery."
But many environmentalists say grizzly bare should stay under federal management since they face habitat loss and climate change. The Montana Governor said grizzly hunting will still be prohibited under federal law, even if control goes to the states. For MPR News, I'm Hannah Merzbach.
Two bookstores, one of which was founded by journalists, are among the latest targets of Hong Kong's crackdown on independent booksellers, according to local media. They report police have hauled away boxes of books and arrested five people on suspicion of selling what authorities their call seditious publications. When Britain transfer control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, Beijing agreed to allow the
region considerable political autonomy under a one country two systems framework for 50 years, however 29 years in Beijing has tightened its political grip and response to dissent. U.S. stocks on the day higher, the Dow closed up 150 points. This is NPR. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old
left in the family's garage. "He told me he would not make me cry." Antonio Junior left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there. "I need some a ref me, just as for my son."
