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President Trump says he could withdraw a Todd Blanch's nomination for U.S. Attorney General
“after two outgoing Republican senators, Texas's John Coran, and North Carolina's Tom”
Tillis, with hell, their support for Blanch currently the acting AG. Their opposition stems from the settlement of Trump's lawsuit against the IRS, and Pierce Daniel Kurtz-Labin has more. Both senators wanted written guarantees regarding that settlement, which included a shield
for Trump against tax audits, as well as nearly $1.8 billion for people claiming to
have been targeted by the justice system. They said the DOJ wouldn't provide it. Trump posted on social media that he's prepared to pull Blanch's nomination until after Coran and Tillis leave office at the start of next year. He also boasted that he'd ended their careers.
In response, Coran and Post said, "Potus is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlements are limited to me and Senator Tillis. Daniel Kurtz-Labin and PR news the White House." The U.S. has retaliated against what it describes as Iran-surprise attack on Jordan.
“Central Command says ballistic missiles were fired this week against U.S. forces.”
Meanwhile, the war could be expanding in the region. A day after Saudi Arabia disclosed it was directly engaged. Egypt reported an unidentified drone strike near the Suez Canal. A Georgia man is getting 15 years in prison for giving his son the weapon he used in the 2024 mass shooting that killed four people in injured nine others at Abelachi High School.
On the eve of Abelachi High's first day of school, Judge Nicholas Primacentially told Cole Gray's father, Colin Gray, had sentencing that he failed his son and failed the community. "But for you failing to get cold help. But for your failure to remove access to the guns, this doesn't happen.
September 4th would have been a normal day." Gray's son called pleaded guilty to his crimes and will serve life in prison without parole. Hot and dry conditions are opposing challenges for firefighters in Oregon as close to
“three dozen major wildfires or burning through range lands and cattle country in the”
eastern half of the state. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports new fire weather watch advisories are posted. The National Weather Service's warning thunderstorms could bring little or no rain, but lightning that could spark new fires, most of the recent fires that have burned close to a
million and half acres of land are believed to have ignited from lightning.
Larry O'Neill is the state climatologist for Oregon. "So we're kind of holding our breath right now that the weather conditions can kind of try to moderate, although that's not looking likely." There's only heat and wind in the immediate forecast, meaning dense smoke advisories will continue across the northwest.
O'Neill warns it could be a long summer fire season with the higher altitude forests in Oregon that have so far not burned, remaining extremely dry, Kirk Sigler and PR News. U.S. stocks on the day higher with the Dow closing up 650 points. This is NPR. The Commerce Department finds the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.5% in the second quarter.
That marks a slowdown from the 2.1% annual growth registered in the first three months of the year. Well, at the same time, a separate report also released today by the Commerce Department showed inflation remained fairly high in June despite slowing somewhat from the month before. That report showed that inflation in June, as measured by the personal consumption, expenditures
price index hit 3.7% from a year ago. The famous Sinurama-Dome movie theater in Hollywood will be revived after closing during the coronavirus pandemic, and Pierre's Mandelit del Badco reports. Sinurfiles are excited about the Sinurama-Dome's comeback, Sony says it will lease, restore, and reopen the widescreen geodesic shaped theater in 2020.
It's just in time to premiere a madcat movie shot in 70mm. Preservationists have tried to revive the theater that's been shuttered since the pandemic. It seems like it's just going to be a demolition by neglect, so I was like something has to be done. 27-year-old filmmaker Ben Steinberg, campaigned with rallies in an online petition,
bringing he got attention by projecting images of the property's owners onto the Sinurama-Dome itself, asking them to save it, Mandelit del Badco and Pierre News Los Angeles. The NASDAQ is closed at more than two and a half percent, the Dow and SMP also up roughly one and a half percent. This is NPR.
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