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The Senate has narrowly approved Todd Blanch to serve as the new U.S. Attorney General.
NPR's Franco-Radonia's reports, the boat puts President Trump's former personal lawyer in charge of the Justice Department.
“Blanch ever came a final hurdle after securing key support from Republican Senator Bill”
Cassidy of Louisiana. It's a major win for Blanch, but also for President Trump, who gets his person in the top job. It also ends a rough few weeks of party-infiting over-the-nomination between Trump and Senate Republicans.
Now, it's a tough job and some Republicans remain concerned about Blanch's independence. Trump has pressed for the Department to go after his political enemies, and is acting attorney general, Blanch had moved swiftly advancing controversial investigations against
some of the President's political targets, including former FBI director James Kome.
Marco, or Donias, and P.R. News, traveling with the President. It's been one year since a gunman opened fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and P.R. is paying long reports. It was Friday afternoon near the end of the work day when a gunman stood across the street
“from the CDC's main campus and started shooting.”
Dr. Dan Journaligan was there. At the time, he let the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases for about 15 minutes, he says. Being in an office in Atlanta was more dangerous than tracking Ebola in West Africa. The CDC staffers all survived, but the gunman killed DeCab County Police Officer David
Rose. A man wrote on campus is being renamed after him. The gunman, who killed himself, was motivated by anti-vaccine and anti-CDC messaging. Dr. Nagan says those sentiments are still out there. The rhetoric and demonization of public health and public health leaders certainly has not stopped.
Ping Huang and PR News. The Trump administration has signed another settlement with an energy company to not develop offshore wind, and PR's Julie Assignment Reports is the latest instance where a foreign company gets paid to develop fossil fuels in the US instead of renewable energy. The settlement is between German company RWE and the Trump administration.
RWE will now not develop wind projects in New York, California and Louisiana and get paid $1.2 billion for it. RWE will shift investments to gas infrastructure, which release far more planet heating emissions than offshore wind. All told, the administration has paid roughly $4 billion to foreign energy companies to not
develop offshore wind. The Trump administration has argued that offshore wind is unreliable, although wind paired with batteries and a well-managed grid, offshore wind is proven to be dependable. Julie Assignment and PR News. This is NPR News in Washington.
Most kids have little idea what they want to do when they grow up, and PR's Janet Wu-jungly
reports on how mentorship can open the door to careers they may never have considered.
Even when kids are passionate about something, it can be hard for them to figure out what that dream job looks like and how to make it happen. And research shows that can be especially true for young people from marginalized backgrounds. There's expectations that black folks do this and black folks don't do that. Keith Russell is a conservation scientist that Audubon and Philadelphia, who mentors aspiring
black burders and scientists. And that's been a real barrier for black folks to get into burning.
“So it's really important to have support and to know be with people that understand your”
interest. Russell says mentorship could help young people understand what needs to be done to achieve those dreams, like plan their education or work on specific skills. Janet Wu-jungly and PR News. Wild fires near Spokane, Washington, have burned more than 8,000 acres.
At least 700 buildings have been destroyed and roughly 64,000 people have been forced to evacuate with many still unable to return home. Emergency crews are stretched thin as drought and extreme heat fuel fires across the Pacific Northwest, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has declared a state of emergency and requested federal assistance.
In southern California, firefighters are working to contain several blazes, a wild fire and Calaveras County has burned more than 10,000 acres. This week on "Wait Wait Don't Tell me," we talked to legendary Oscar and Emmy-winning icon, Sally Field, about her starring role in the 60's television series, The Flying None.
I was on a 50-foot crane and they were climbing into a site of a building, and I'm like, like, like, Spider-Man. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our games, listen to the "Wait Wait Don't
