>> Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Lynda Kenyan.
Senate Republicans evoked the controversial nomination of acting attorney general Todd
“Blach, who was appointed to fill the post left vacant by Pam Bondi's departure in April.”
NPR is Scott Newman, as more. >> President Trump's former attorney was confirmed in a 50 to 49 vote, with Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine voting against him. With ailing Senator Mitch McConnell absent, Blanch's fate rested on getting a last moment yes vote from Senator Bill Cassidy, who lost his primary to a Trump-backed challenger,
was concerned that as acting AG, Blanch exempted the president from IRS audits, and that he'd used the power of the Department of Justice to go after Trump's political enemies. But earlier this week, the Louisiana Republican said he would vote for Blanch, all but assuring his nomination. Scott Newman and PR News, Washington.
>> Immigrant attention is approaching record highs and numbers not seen since January of this year, and private prison companies, including geo-group and core civic, that work with ice, a reaping large profits.
“And PR immigration correspondent Vanessa Romo says they're not the only ones making money.”
>> They start at the top of ice, the acting director David Ventrella is a former executive at geo-group, but in a recent letter he told lawmakers that he's divested his geo-group stock, then there's Trump's borders are Tom Homein, who was also a paid consultant for geo-group before joining the government, and former Attorney General Pam Bondi also lobbied for geo-group before she was appointed.
>> And PR's Vanessa Romo adds President Trump also has financial ties to both geo-group and core civic, in trades supervised by his brokers.
Federal revenues for geo-group alone were up 15% to more than $730 million over the same period
last year. Tens of millions of Americans are under heat alerts today, as NPR's Amy Held reports, a new survey finds a growing share of American safe stream heat, is changing how they live. 90% of people say extreme heat has had at least some impact on their lives.
“Up from 83% to years ago, the APNORC survey finds a growing share of Americans say”
it's affecting their energy bills, outdoor activities, their sleep. One thing that's dropped, the percentage of Americans who say climate change is happening, two thirds down from three quarters to years ago. Human cost climate change is making intense heat waves more likely. Then there's the naturally occurring El Nino climate pattern forecast to intensify in the
incoming months making above normal heat even likely. This has highs in parts of the Western US top 110 degrees. The National Weather Service says it's up to 12 degrees above normal for summer, Amy Held and PR News. You're listening to NPR.
Columbia has worn in a new president following a hard-fought election this summer. He's an ally at President Trump and says he will fight rebel groups in the country with greater military force, Manuel Waita has more from Bogota. I'm Elardo del Esprella, held his inauguration in Gali, a city that has been heavily hit by violence from drug gangs and rebel groups.
The conservative spoken in military base and said that his top priority will be to restore
ordering areas of the country where criminal organizations have become more powerful.
The time to recover security and liberty has come, he said. For the past four years, Columbia has been stage in peace talks with rebel groups that profit from the cocaine trade but there has been little success. The Lesprella says he will end those negotiations, as he takes an iron-fisted approach to crime.
For NPR News, I'm Manuel Waita, in Bogota. A new Gallup survey finds many adults use AI for financial guidance, but they aren't exactly confident about the guidance they are receiving. The survey conducted in partnership with financial services firm Edward Jones finds about one in five Americans who sought financial guidance in the past year, used AI.
But fewer than three in ten said they had any confidence in its expertise. The poll found a disconnect between the resources Americans trust for their financial advice and the ones that they actually rely upon. I'm Lyndick Onion, NPR News, in Washington. This week on Wait wait don't tell me we talked a legendary Oscar in Emmy-winning icon,
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