Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Windsor, Johnston.
The Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy says he'll back President Trump's pick for attorney
general.
“Cassidy considered a pivotal vote and announced his decision to support the nomination”
of Todd Blanch on the Senate floor just as short time ago. "This is not a referendum on President Trump. It is a decision regarding Mr. Blanch in various specific circumstances. All considered I will vote for Mr. Blanch. I'll be criticized for this vote.
What's new? But people who either can be assured that I work toward to understand the issue and to make the right decision." Republican senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have said they plan to vote no. Senator Mitch McConnell is absent leaving Republicans with no other votes to spare.
Just as face questions about the Justice Department's independence and and now cancelled fund for January 6 rioters, Blanch is serving as acting attorney general and previously worked as President Trump's personal lawyer.
“The leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have signed a joint defense agreement today”
that's according to a statement published by the Turkish President's office. NPR said deal Al-Shalci reports the President of Turkey, the Saudi Crown Prince, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan signed the deal in the city of Mecca. Details of the agreement were not immediately released, but the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that it was intended to "strengthen collective deterrence against any act of aggression."
This deal comes as tensions in the Middle East rise with fears of a widening war between the United States and Iran. The agreement would combine the strengths of Saudi Arabia as an oral-rich country, Pakistan,
a nuclear power and Turkey, which has NATO's second largest military and a growing defense
industry. Hedil Al-Shalci and PR News is done. Patients and medical researchers are calling on prediction market sites to ban bedding on clinical trials and PR's Bobby Allen reports, Calci and Polly Market say the market's offer valuable information.
Production market sites, Calci and Polly Market are facing a backlash for allowing better to wage your money on the outcome of clinical trials. Company say the bedding can keep patients ahead of the latest medical breakthroughs, but Joshua Pederson sees it differently. His 12-year-old son is a cancer patient in a clinical trial, and he says bedding against
“the trial's success is effectively trying to make money on his sick child.”
One of the things that has struck me about these platforms is that they're flashy and they're gamified in such a way that you're often kind of distanced from the real cost. Drug researchers have started an online petition asking that the platform's ban such markets, but the companies claim they could make the opaque drug discovery process more transparent, Bobby Allen and PR News.
This is NPR News in Washington. The Federal Communications Commission has voted to wipe away limits on how many Americans any one company can reach through the local TV stations at owns. Congress said a limit at 39% of Americans to preserve a range of editorial voices and sensibilities and local TV.
NPR's David Folganflick reports some lawmakers and advocates say the Commission's action is unlawful. FCC Chairman Brendan Carre says the local TV businesses under pressure from streaming, and he says local TV companies need to bulk up to fight back networks like ABC and CBS and NBC.
Carre's launched investigations of major broadcast networks, eggdone by President Trump. The vote on limits fell two to one along party lines. The loan Democrat on the Commission says the vote was illegal that only Congress can change or erase those limits, but executives at next-art hailed the decision, next-art owns more TV stations than anyone.
It's acquisition of a big rival would let it reach 80% of the nation, but that take over is on hold as a major antitrust lawsuit plays out. David Folganflick and PR News. Immigration and customs enforcement are planning to equip all field officers with body cameras by the end of September, but the agency's policy does not require the automatic
release of video from deadly or serious encounters. I says it will release that footage only if it determines doing so is in the agency's best interest. One body camera expert says that gives the "Iced Director" broad discretion over which recordings become public.
I'm Windsor Jonsten and PR News in Washington, this week, on Consider This. Virginia thought her criminal record would follow her forever until a few minutes with an AI app that told her she could clear her felonies.
"You'll never find a harder worker than someone who has something to prove to themselves
how AI could help millions of Americans with criminal records" find work.
