Live from NPR News in Washington, on Rylan Barton, the Senate has confirmed J...
to head the nation's intelligence agencies, Clayton is the U.S. attorney for the Southern
“District of New York and a former securities and exchange commission chairman during his”
confirmation hearing he refused to say outright that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Some Democrats say they want to investigate President Trump's actions if they win control of Congress during the midterm elections and P.R.s. Mara Lyerson has more on the historical context to political scandals and efforts to reform. If you listen to people who follow this like Michael Waldman at the Brennan Center, they
look back to those times in history where there were huge scandals and after that Congress took things that had merely been norms or voluntary choices and they codified them into laws. Here's Michael Waldman. Teddy Roosevelt and the progressive error reforms came after the corruption of the guilty age. Their watergate came a wave of protections and reforms in the 1970s.
It's now a half century later, the corruption is growing, the abuse is growing and it's time for another reform moment. And we're now at a time when most of those post-watergate laws have been overturned or otherwise shipped away.
“NPR's Mara Lyerson reporting, President Trump met with the leaders of Ukraine and Israel”
today and P.R. is Michelle Kalman reports. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky says he had a good meeting with President Trump in a social media post. He writes that he discussed several ideas with them, including giving Ukraine licenses to produce patriot missile interceptors.
And Zelensky says they discuss the need to reinvigorate diplomacy. President Trump came to office saying he could resolve that war on day one. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came out of his meeting saying it was one of the best conversations he's had with President Trump. It comes amid tensions over the war in Iran, which Trump initially promised Americans
would be over quickly. Michelle Kalman and B.R. News, the State Department. The teenager who killed four people in a school shooting in Georgia has been sentenced
“to life without parole, remain crews of member station W. A.B.E. reports.”
Colt Gray was 14 years old in 2024 when he brought the assault style rifle that his father gifted him for Christmas, two Appalachia High School northeast of Atlanta and opened fire. Both the prosecution and the defense agreed that the teen had a bad upbringing. But the local district attorney Brad Smith says Gray's motive was to mimic other mass shooters for fame and notoriety within the true crime community.
"I want everyone to realize this is not harmless. The things they're doing online are not harmless and we need to pay attention to when these kids start doodling these things on their notebooks."
The teen's father is set to be sentenced later this week for second-degree murder and
involuntary manslaughter. For NPR News, I'm Shaman Cruz in Atlanta. Most US stocks rose today, this is NPR News. The Republican race to replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham on the November ballot is heating up at least 10 candidates have filed for the special primary on August 11th, the
late Senator Sister, Darlene Graham will serve out the rest of his term and is running for the nomination, but she's a political unknown to many South Carolinians. Other contenders include Congressman Ralph Norman and Russell Frye and former Governor Mark Sandford, Dr. Annie Andrews, is the Democratic nominee. FIFA is planning to sell stakes of the world cup to private investors, and P.R.'s Raphael
Nom reports Europe's soccer governing body strongly opposes the plan. It's a complicated plan, FIFA would create a separate company to oversee all commercial decisions for the men's and women's world cup, as well as to other FIFA tournaments like the Club World Cup. And in this new venture, FIFA would partner with a firm called Thrive Eternal, run by Joshua
Kushner, the brother of President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Thrive's role would be to bring in new minority investors to this commercial venture, effectively selling a stake to the world cup and other FIFA tournaments to others. UEFA, though, the body that governs European soccer, strongly opposes the plan. Saying quote, "None of us are the owners of football.
It is not FIFA's to sell, Raphael Nom in P.R. News." Police are searching for two men they say climbed over the glass wall of Seattle's space needle last week, flipped over the edge, and parachuted down from the 605 foot structure. Police say the men put helmets on in a restroom, then ran to jump off. This is NPR News.
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