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Todd Blantry means acting attorney general, but his nomination to the post is on hold.
And while President Trump said Thursday that he could pull Blanche's nomination, he
“also suggested he may try to wait out to key Republicans, John Kornin of Texas and North”
Carolina's Tom Tillis. At issue as a controversial anti-weaponization fund, Blanche signed off on, Blanche has said that the fund has been abandoned, but Kornin and Tillis want written proof, Tillis spoke with reporters on Thursday. On social media, Trump said he could put Blanche back up for attorney general after Kornin
and Tillis leave office next year. State Department says there's been a lot of demand for the 250th commemorative passports featuring President Trump's image.
Now it will be a bit easier to get one as MPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
Up to now, the new passport was only available for Americans applying in-person at Washington D.C.'s passport agency. Now the State Department is arranging special events at passport agencies across the country for Americans who want to apply for it.
“There will be 250,000 of these "patriot" passports, President Trump is shown on the first”
page, standing with his fist on a desk in front of the Declaration of Independence. There's information online about how to get one. If you don't want one, apply as usual online or pick the option with extra pages. The commemorative passport is only available in the standard 26 page book. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the State Department.
To New York, despite a statewide moratorium on new AI data centers, former crypto miners and upstate New York are getting into the business, Rosemary Misdari of Memorization W. and Y.C. reports. When it's generation, is a natural gas-fired power plant in the Finger Lakes region that has the energy capacity for 75,000 homes.
Nearly all its generation goes towards mining Bitcoin. After a decline in revenue, the company says it's changing its name to Vulcan and rebranding as an AI data center.
“The new venture is also requesting 200% more power from the grid.”
Environmental regulators decline to comment on whether Vulcan falls under the new statewide data center moratorium. Vulcan has not informed state officials of its new venture. For NPR News, I'm Rosemary Misdari in New York City. South Korea's benchmark share index has logged its largest ever single-day gain.
The cost-be jump were the 18% in Friday trading amid a rebound and stock-sling two artificial intelligence. This is NPR. Hot and dry conditions are posing challenges for firefighters in Oregon. As close to three, does a major wildfires are burning through range lands on cattle
country in the eastern half of the state. NPR's Kirk Seigler reports here are a new fire weather watch advisories 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 Seigler and P.R. News. The death toll is rising from the earthquake that hits southwestern Japan Tuesday.
Officials now say 34 people were killed in the quake that set off an explosion at a shopping mall, toppled effect rate chimney, and flattened homes on Q-shoot Japan's main southern island. The governing body of European football planning to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest of FIFA chief Gianni Infantino's plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private
equity investors. UEFA says an online meeting of all 55 members came to a unanimous decision. The regional body for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, stopped short of a boycott but still rejected Infantino's proposal. This is NPR News.
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