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The Senate is voted to confirm Todd Blatch to serve as Attorney General.
“The deciding vote came from Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.”
NPR's Claudia Grisales reports on what made Cassidy support Blatch. She admitted he too had concerns over Blent's role in things like that anti-weaponization fund. Here's Cassidy on the Senate floor. Mr. Blatch is not perfect and he will tell you this.
The choice is not between perfection and Mr. Blanche. It is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively under President Trump. So he argued Blanche would actually have more leverage to push against the president
if he was confirmed to the role.
Other Republican senators, including Senator Lisa McCalsky of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, did not support Blanche's confirmation in part due to his previous role as President Trump's personal attorney and whether he would challenge the president. They also cited Blanche's handling of the Epstein files and whether his assurances against the anti-weaponization fund would stand.
Legal aid groups that have represented migrant children for months without pay could soon be getting a check from the Trump administration after a federal judge's order. Tyki Hendricks reports from Member Station KQED. In December, the government stopped paying the non-profits for representing unaccompanied kids in immigration court.
This week, a federal judge in Oakland ordered the government to pay about $65 million.
The checks are due to arrive Monday.
“It's incredibly important to have this money.”
Alvaro Werta with immigrant defenders law center in Los Angeles represents the groups. Because we do feel an ethical obligation and moral obligation to ensure that children have someone standing beside them in court. The future's unclear for the nation's more than 20,000 unaccompanied kids because the legal aid contract expired last month.
For NPR News, I'm Tyki Hendricks in San Francisco. The stock market saw this week, even as the job market showed signs of weakness and PR has scot horse late reports. Messers focus their attention on strong corporate earnings reports and renewed hopes that a diplomatic deal can be reached to end the war with Iran.
Retail gasoline prices have been falling in recent days, although there's still more than a dollar gallon higher than they were when the war began. Higher energy prices have been a drag on the economy, causing restaurants and retailers
“to cut jobs last month, revised figures also show hiring in May and June was weaker than”
had been reported. Officers hope the lackluster jobs report will make the Federal Reserve less likely to raise interest rates next month for the week the Dow rose 3%, the S&P 500 and S climb more than 3.5%, and the tech heavy NASDAQ jumped more than 5%. It's got horse they impure news, Washington.
Investors shrugged off news that employers cut more than 20,000 jobs last month. You're listening to NPR. Thousands of people in central British Columbia fleeing a fast-moving wildfire, it's just one of dozens of wildfires, burning across the province. As Dan Carpenshuk reports, officials in the District of Summerland have declared a state
of emergency. The evacuation order covers the entire district, officials say the bald range wildfire exploded in size over the past 24 hours and now poses a significant threat to the health safety and welfare of the more than 12,000 people who live there. The region's emergency information officer says it has become one of the quickest moving
and fastest growing fires experienced in the area. Recent surveys suggest the fires in British Columbia, the Northwest, and in northern Ontario have sparked a sharp rise in Canadians' concerns about climate change. For NPR News, I'm Dan Carpenshuk in Toronto. California is joining Texas and requiring content creators to save they've been paid by
a political campaign to post about a particular candidate. The state also is considering cracking down on those who don't make that disclosure. Campaigns of long work with celebrities and major influencers to win over voters, but now they are teaming up with smaller creators to reach more tailored audiences who could affect the outcome of any election.
The debate over whether disclosure rules for political advertisements should apply to content creators, comes ahead of the midterm elections and ahead of the 2028 presidential election. So this debate is likely to heat up much further. I'm Linda Kenyan, NPR News, in Washington. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our games, listen to the weight weight
