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A committee vote on top Blanche's nomination to become president Trump's attorney general
has been delayed. The Senate Judiciary Committee had been scheduled to vote Thursday to send Blanche's nomination to the floor. But two key committee Republicans, John Corden, of Texas and Tom Tillis, of North Carolina. Say they won't support Blanche without written assurances from the Justice Department
about the Trump IRS settlement. Senator Corden spoke to CNN Wednesday.
“"I think they realized now that we're serious, and I think Senator Tillis is pretty much”
on the same page that I am, so they better get real, and there's not much time left." Both 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 is expected to move next week. Rather, vote next week after Fauci repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment, and Wednesday searing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci accused Senator Paul of what he called an unhinged campaign to see him imprisoned.
Stocks fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve held interest rate steady. And PR Scott Horsey reports all of the major stock indexes down one and a half percent. The Federal Reserve's rate setting committee voted nine to three to leave the Central Bank's benchmark interest rate unchanged.
“The three to centers said they would have preferred a quarter point rate increase in an effort to curb stubborn inflation.”
Fed Chairman Kevin Wars notes that market-based interest rates are already climbing, even though the Fed's benchmark hasn't changed. That's encouraging for wars who wants the Fed to play a smaller role in the U.S. economy.
After all, the Central Bank need not always and everywhere be the center of attention.
The inflation still elevated, and the war with Iran still rattling energy markets. Investors see a better than even chance that the Fed will raise interest rates at its next policy meeting in September. Scott Horsey, and PR News, Washington. A new analysis from a civil rights group shows Moss Nation wide-pacing increased attacks in the months. It's a deadly shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
Willa Kuzizaba, religion news service reports. The Council on American Islamic Relations found 17 incidents targeting mosques in May, June, and July of the year that includes harassment, vandalism, and intimidation across a dozen states. During the same three-month period last year, care documented six similar incidents. In May, two teenagers shot and killed three Muslims at a mosque in San Diego.
Corey Sailer is Kair's research and advocacy director. He says anti-Muslim hate has become normalized by conservative politicians. Then that seems to make people feel empowered to go out and act on those fears that they feel. Or express their hatred in different ways. The civil rights group is calling on mosques to bolster security measures.
For NPR News, I'm Alea Kuziz. This is 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 in response to attempted Iranian attacks to stay on American forces in Jordan. The military says all the Iranian missiles were intercepted. A $100 billion data center campus will be built on federally owned land and far-western Kentucky that once housed a uranium enrichment plant. Derek Operley, the member station WKMS reports.
The privately funded project will see Trugian dollar investment firm Brooke Field develop a massive 1.8 gigawatt data center. While next era energy will build and operate a two-gigawatt natural gas plant that feeds excess electricity into the regional grid.
“Congressmen Andy Barr says Paduka played a key role in the U.S.'s post-World War II nuclear strategy.”
And this is another once-in-a-generation opportunity for the region. A place that once helped America win the Cold War will now help America win the AI race. This isn't the only big project underway around the Department of Energy's Paduka site. Two new private uranium enrichment facilities are in the works. One with connections to billionaire investor and Trump ally, Peter Teele.
For NPR News, I'm Derek Operley, in Paduka, Kentucky. No, I'm at a sell-off in companies linked to the artificial intelligence boom. The financial markets in Asia mostly lower in Thursday trading. South Korea's benchmark down 1.1% after falling more than 10% on Tuesday and nearly 6% on Wednesday. This is NPR News.
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