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The Senate has voted to confirm Todd Blanche as US Attorney General. On this vote, the Yeaser 50, the Nays are 49, the nomination is confirmed. All Democrats voted against the nomination, along with Republicans, Susan Collins, and Lisa
“Murkowski, the Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy provided crucial support for Blanche”
on Friday after raising concerns about his nomination. Blanche previously served as President Trump's personal attorney and the Justice Department's second ranking official. The Senate has also approved a bill imposing sanctions on Russia with broad bipartisan support.
NPR's Claudia Grasala's reports the measure gained momentum after its chief architect, Senator Lindsey Graham died last month. Senator Graham led the push for Russia sanctions as part of an effort to end the war in Ukraine. The legislation was named in his honor as the bill's supporter saw it as a tribute to the
South Carolina Republican, that includes a sister Darling Graham who was appointed to serve the remainder of his term.
“My late brother Lindsey was a foreign policy and national security expert.”
He was also a peacemaker who was determined to bring it in to the conflict in Ukraine. He would place sanctions on top Russian leaders and top importers of Russian oil. It would also allow President Trump to place tariffs on those importers, which some Democrats say unnecessarily gives Trump more power. Claudia Salis and beer news.
The capital. The Pentagon has released a new set of files showing unidentified flying objects and PR's Jeff Brumfield reports it's the latest round in an ongoing effort to document weird things in the sky. A flock of mysterious lights flying over the south China Sea, a black triangle in the sky
above Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan in 2002 and a report of a large middle sphere with a body inside that fell from the sky and landed in a city in Brazil in 1963. These are but a few of the oddities in the Pentagon's latest UFO files, or rather UAP files since these incidents are now called unidentified aerial phenomena. The Pentagon has released hundreds of files in videos since President Trump called for
more transparency around UAPs so far, number-by-clear evidence of alien visitors.
“It appears the truth is still out there.”
Jeff Brumfield and beer news. The Federal Appeals Court has ordered the Trump administration to stop construction of
its $400 million white houseball room because Congress has not approved the project.
Three judge panel ruled that Congress has not authorized the 90,000 square foot project on the former site of the East Wing President Trump is calling the decision unjust and says he plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. This is NPR. Columbia has sworn in a new president into office following a hard-fought election
this summer. He's an ally of President Trump and says he will fight rebel groups in the country with greater military force, Manuel Ruida has more from Bogota. I'm Lardo de la Espereja held his inauguration in Gali, a city that has been heavily hit by violence from drug gangs and rebel groups.
The conservatives spoken a military base and said that his top priority will be to restore
order in 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 staging peace talks with rebel groups that profit from the cocaine trade, but there has been little success. The Espereja says he will end those negotiations, as he takes an iron-fisted approach to crime.
For NPR news, Manuel Ruida, in Bogota. The number of states are considering stricter rules for social media influencers who are paid to promote political candidates, Texas now requires creators to disclose compensation in their posts, and lawmakers in New York are considering, as similar rule. California already requires disclosure when influencers are paid by political committees.
A bill before the state legislature would add penalties for those who fail to comply. The proposals reflect the growing role of paid influencers in political campaigns. I'm Windsor-Johnston 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
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.
