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President Trump says he may withdraw and delay Todd Blanch's nomination as attorney
“general until Republican senators who are seeking concessions from the top prosecutor”
leave office. Republican senators John Cornin of Texas and Tom Tillis of North Carolina want the
Trump administration to assure them that a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund for
Trump's allies won't be revived here's Tillis today. "Somebody's tough is all to not do what Blanch said they were going to do. Whoever that person is is giving the president a bad advice. The only reason why we would move forward with this language is because that same adviser wants to bring it back to life at some point."
Trump doubled down on choosing Blanch's former personal lawyer to be attorney general calling him a star and saying he'll keep him in the role as acting attorney general for now. After winning an emergency nominating convention last weekend, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson is sprinting to assemble his campaign team for his run against
Republican incumbent Susan Collins, Steve Missler, from member station Maine Public has more.
Jackson became the Democrats nominee after embattled Graham Platner stepped aside after
allegations of sexual misconduct. But Jackson is hoping he can harness the voter enthusiasm generated by Platner's run. "I do think that we are on the right side, that people are energized because of the poor
“government that we have, and I think it's possible."”
Jackson's political career was launched nearly 30 years ago during a labor protest at the Canadian border. He has fewer than 100 days to mount to campaign against Collins who was seeking her sixth term. For NPR News, I'm Steve Missler and Brunswick Maine.
We Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second largest ever, according to the Africa CDC, as NPR as a Jonathan Lambert reports cases and deaths have jumped sharply over the past week as health officials struggled to keep up. Ebola has killed more than 1,500 people and second at least 3,400 more in the DRC. That's more than any other outbreak saved the 2014 West Africa outbreak, which second
more than 28,000 over several years. The current outbreak is spreading much faster than that 2014 one at this point, and health officials are concerned it could eventually become the largest.
Part of the problem is that the vast majority of cases are in people that health officials
weren't monitoring.
“Those officials want to trace all the contacts of known cases.”
If they can get those contacts to quarantine, they can get ahead of the virus. But that's not happening fast enough. Until it does, the Africa CDC says the outbreak will keep spreading. Jonathan Lambert and PR news. The U.S. economy expanded at a sluggish one and a half percent pace from April through
June as rising imports weighed on growth. Meanwhile, major U.S. stock indexes rose today recovering some of their recent losses. This is NPR news. The national urban leagues state of black America report warns that the American dream may be slipping away for many black Americans.
The report criticizes the Trump administration's rollback of civil rights policies and urges civil rights groups to consolidate legal resistance, a White House spokesperson says President Trump was elected with a mandate to change those policies in that diversity equity and inclusion, quote, "rand rampant" during the Biden administration. The famous "Cinorama-Done" movie theater in Hollywood will be revived after closing during
the pandemic and PR's Montelito Barco reports. "Cinophiles are excited about the "Cinorama-Dones" comeback," Sony says it will lease, restore, and reopen the widescreen geodesic shaped theater in 2021. Just in time to premiere a mad cat movie shot in 70mm. Preservationists have tried to revive the theater that's been shuddered 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. Twenty-seven-year-old filmmaker Ben Steinberg, campaigned with rallies in an online petition, covering he got attention by projecting images of the property's owners onto the "Cinorama-Done" itself, asking them to save it.
Mandelito Barco and PR news Los Angeles. "Covier drought is causing record low water levels on Europe's Danube River, affecting tourism and industry. The river flows through 10 countries and is receded to expose old shipwrecks. The drought's also affected Hungary and Romania's nuclear power plant operations and
exposed a World War II bomb." This is NPR News One of here this podcast without sponsor bricks, Amazon Prime members can listen to NPR News now, sponsor free through Amazon music, or you can also support NPR's vital journalism and get NPR+ at plus.npr.org.
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