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The Senate is narrowly approved Todd Blanche to observe as the new U.S. Attorney General,
and Piers Franco-O. Dornez reports the vote puts President Trump's former personal lawyer in charge of the Justice Department.
“Blanche ever came a final hurdle after securing key support from Republican Senator Bill”
Cassidy of Louisiana. It's a major win for Blanche, but also for President Trump, who gets his person in the top job. It also ends a few weeks of party infighting over the nomination between Trump and Senate Republicans. Now, it's a tough job, and some Republicans remain concerned about Blanche's independence.
Trump has pressed for the Department to go after his political enemies, and distracting Attorney General, Blanche had moved swiftly advancing controversial investigations against some of the President's political targets, including former FBI director James Comie. Franco, or Dornez, and PR News, traveling with the President. The U.S. Postal Service continues to face major financial challenges.
NPR's Hansi Lowong reports the self-funded mailing agency is reporting a net loss for the third quarter in a row this fiscal year.
“10s and millions of people rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver mail and packages”
at least six days a week to just spend every address in the country. And in turn, U.S.P.S. relies on selling stamps and service fees, not tax dollars. But with people sending a lot less mail compared to decades ago, plus inflation and fuel
costs, U.S.P.S. ended its third quarter of the fiscal year with a net loss of $2.5 billion.
David Steiners, a postmaster general. "As things stand, the Postal Service was expected to be self-sustaining while, at the same time, fulfilling mandates that are inherently unsustainable and do not cover their costs." U.S.P.S. which is a financial support of NPR has paused payments to its worker retirement funds in order to avoid running out of cash.
They've also serviced now projects that crisis may come as soon as 2031, on Zilowong and Piano's. "A red flag warning looms over part of Washington State.
“Firefighters there are taking aggressive steps to prevent another major wildfire in areas”
already scarred by the Spokane complex fires." Daniel Rameous, spokesman with the California Interagency Incident Management, says crews are primed and ready if those fires pick up. "We make sure everyone who is in the loop, we're predicting those heavy winds. Now all those crews are here, they're going to be bolstered, and we're going to upstaff
every single division that we have any concern about." Rameous also says fire officials are working closely with law enforcement when it comes to weather to order evacuations. The U.S. Iran War continues to affect Iran's Middle Eastern neighbors, the United Arab Emirates reports Iranian missiles targeted one of its ships that's owned by Abu Dhabi
State Run ad-Nak oil company, no casualties were reported. You're listening to NPR. Much of Europe is bracing for yet another heat wave, Vicky Barker reports Europeans have been suffering through a record-breaking hot summer. Heat-health alerts have already taken effect in much of the U.K., where London is about
to experience its fifth heat wave of the season. All of Italy's major cities are under the highest level of heat alert, and record heat's been reported in neighboring Austria. Several European countries have been experiencing temperatures above 104 Fahrenheit, prompting health warnings for millions of elderly or otherwise medically vulnerable people.
Indianatologists say Europe, which lacks widespread air conditioning, is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, severely testing public health systems, power generation, transportation networks, and tourism infrastructure. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker, in London. The U.S. Army says it's opening up test ranges to private companies, developing missiles
and drones. Former Secretary Dan Driscoll says the decision was driven in part by his observations of the war in Ukraine, and how quickly that country moved to produce new weapon systems. Secretary Driscoll told reporters that a range in Michigan yesterday that he pledged to ground companies access to ranges within 30 days of a request.
The announcement comes as warfare is rapidly changing, particularly with the use of cheap drones in Ukraine and Iran as the Pentagon confronts higher costs of the Iran war. I'm Linda Kenyan and PR News in Washington. This week, I'm consider this. Virginia thought her criminal record would follow her forever, until a few minutes with
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