Live from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, a committee vote on Todd Blanch's nomina...
President Trump's attorney general has been delayed. The Senate Judiciary Committee had been scheduled to vote tomorrow to send Blanch's nomination to the floor, but two key committee Republicans, John Kornin of Texas and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, say they will not support Blanch without written assurances from the Justice Department about the Trump IRS settlement, Senator Kornin spoke to CNN earlier
today.
“I think they realized now that we're serious, and I think Senator Chillus is pretty much”
on the same page that I am, so they better get real, and there's not much time left. Those senators wanted in writing that the so-called anti-weaponization fund will not move forward the settlement, also included broad tax immunity for the president. The Senate Committee led by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul has scheduled a contempt vote against Dr. Anthony Fauci, the panel expected to vote next week after Fauci today repeatedly
invoked the fifth amendment, and a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as MPR's Jonathan Lambert reports. Dr. Fauci and Senator Paul have long spared over the coronavirus pandemic days before this hearing, Paul released over a thousand pages of Fauci's private writings accusing him of covering up the origins of COVID-19.
Fauci pointed out that he has responded to similar questions in previous testimony, and Fauci accused the Senator of being obsessed with trying to get him behind bars.
“Although it pains me to do so, because of the respect I have for the legislative branch”
of government under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the fifth amendment of the Constitution to reframe from answering your questions. With the U.S. Embassy in Israel intervened, MPR's ATI Stern reports, Dr. Hassan Said Shukri, from the village of Trumus Aias, his Israeli soldiers came to his house and ordered him and his wife to evacuate because they wanted to use the house for military operations.
Shukri alerted local officials who contacted the U.S. Embassy. About four hours later, the soldiers left. Said Department spokesperson told NPR that the safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas is its highest priority. Shukri told NPR he asked the soldiers why they had chosen his home, which flies in American
flag. He says they told him the house overlooks an area where the military is operating. These really military did not respond to NPR's request for comment. For NPR news, I'm a tyster and in Tel Aviv. And you're listening to NPR news.
U.S. military says it is completed the latest wave of strikes against Iranian targets and a statement.
The military says it struck dozens of targets linked to the revolutionary guard corps and
response to attempted Iranian attacks to stay out of American forces in Jordan. The military says all the Iranian missiles were intercepted. A federal jury has convicted a 28-year-old man on three terrorism-related counts, stemming from the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in Western New York. From Buffalo, Toronto Public Media, he just received reports.
Howdy mater was convicted on all three federal terrorism counts for the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie. The verdict comes one week after Rushdie gave his testimony, recounting the brutal attack that almost took his life and left him blind in his right eye.
U.S. Attorney Michael Diiacomo called Rushdie's testimony powerful.
At the end, at some point, Mr. Rushdie removed his glasses so the jury could see the extent of the injury to his eye that he no longer has visioned. Prosecutors argued, "Metara attacked Rushdie to carry out a 1989 Fatwa issued by Ayatollah Roa Ho-Many that called for the author's death. METARA is already serving 25 years in state prison for attempted murder and now faces
up to life and federal prison. For NPR News, I'm Ejas Justill in Buffalo." "If an angel mark, it's a nasum mixed in Thursday trading after Wall Street Law's ground following the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's two-day rate setting meeting that policy makers left interest rates unchanged all three major U.S. stock index benefit
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