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Judiciary Committee are sparring over the nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general. Blanche's nomination is on hold, senators John Corne and O' Texas, and North Carolina's Tom Tillis want the Justice Department to rain in and agreement reach with President Trump. Your simpears Ryan Lucas. The snag here in his confirmation process, it revolves around the deal that the Justice
“Department made to end President Trump's IRS lawsuit over his leaked tax returns. Remember”
that agreement included the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.
Blanche has said that is not moving forward, but there was also a second related part that was a sweeping immunity deal for Trump, his family, and businesses from audits of past tax returns. That very much remains in effect. President Trump suggested Thursday he could pull Blanche's nomination, but Blanche would still be the acting attorney general.
Seattle's police chief resigning after fallout from Sunday's mass shooting at a food festival near the space needle. One suspect has been charged in the killing of three people, but there are potentially multiple shooters to the large. Scott Greenstone with conversation, KUOW reports. Police chief Sean Barnes resignation comes after days of mounting criticism over slow, sometimes conflicting communication about the police investigation into
“the shooting. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the decision to replace Barnes won't interrupt”
the investigation. I would not have done this now if I thought that it would endanger that investigation or the other on the ground work of the department. This to me was the moment where we needed to go in the direction. Barnes was out of town at a conference when the shooting under the space needle took place in the day's sense. His frequent travel to Chicago to visit
his wife and kids while in office also came under question. For NPR news, I'm Scott Greenstone in Seattle. The transportation department has approved the driverless vehicle companies' zooms to start offering rides to paying customers. Federal regulators also say they'll begin gathering data to inform a future national standard for safety for autonomous vehicles, and appears Camilla
Dominozki reports.
“Zooks, a California-based company owned by Amazon, has been testing its driverless electric”
vehicle with free rides. Now it has approval to commercially deploy up to 5,000 vehicles total over the next two years, starting in Las Vegas. Unlike Google's Waymo, which adds driverless technology to existing vehicles, Zooks uses a purpose-built driverless vehicle that looks like a box on wheels and doesn't have any steering wheel or pedals. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also says it's launching a new consortium to gather data
on autonomous vehicles to eventually inform the country's first nationwide safety standards
for driverless cars. Camilla Dominozki and PR news. This is NPR news. The number of migrants who have died trying to enter the Spanish onclave of Suta and North Africa is rising amid a surge in people seeking to reach Europe. The Spanish Interior Ministry now says 18 have been killed. Spain's prime ministers expected in Suta today after the government deployed military units to reinforce police.
Cybersecurity experts at Amazon say they've tracked down the culprit behind several compromises of commonly used open-source software tools. And PR's genomic lawflon reports a North Korean hacking group is to blame. Open source software tools are vital to developers writing code and building applications all over the world. But most of the time, those tools are maintained and secured by unpaid
volunteers. According to Amazon's security researchers, a North Korean hacking group has been slowly embedding itself inside open source software communities before quietly inserting malicious code into a software update, often making use of generative AI. Developers who use the compromised tool are unknowingly creating a back door to their own systems. That allows the hackers to steal data and make money for Pyongyang. The Amazon researchers say they're
hoping to prevent North Korean hackers from profiting off a scheme that could affect a large chunk of the internet software. Genomic lawflon and PR news. Authorities in Minnesota say cyber attacks targeted more than 30 water systems this week. The source of the attacks is being investigated, but they came amid warnings about Iranian hackers. The federal civilian cyber defense agency issued an alert Thursday in the FBI says
it's where reported intrusions in at least seven states. This is in PR news.
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