Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
Early this morning, the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee for U.S. Attorney
“General Todd Blanche, who squeaked out a victory in a Republican-led Senate that raised questions”
about placing Trump's former personal lawyer atop the Justice Department.
That includes a controversial settlement between Trump and the IRS, the created a $1.8 billion
fund that was on track to benefit Trump's allies. Which was approved by the narrowest margin 50 to 49 with Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy Boting and Favor, and he was quite a glissose, has more. He admitted he too had concerns over Blanche's role in things like that anti-weaponization fund.
Here's Cassidy on the Senate floor. Mr. Blanche is not perfect, and he will tell you this. But 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. Empires Claudia could he sell this or reporting.
More than 70 million Americans are under heat alerts today, and in parts of the Western
U.S., triple-digit heat has held on for weeks. Empires Amy Held reports a new survey finds a growing number of people, say extreme heat, is changing how they live. He percent of people say extreme heat has had at least some impact on their lives. Up from 83 percent two years ago, the AP North Survey finds a growing share of American
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 two years ago. Human-cost climate change is making intense heat waves more likely.
When there's the naturally occurring El Niño Climate Pattern, forecast to intensify in
the coming months making above normal heat even likelier. This as highs in parts of the Western U.S. top 110 degrees. The National Weather Service says it's up to 12 degrees above normal for summer. Amy Held and PR News. The CDC says it's tightening restrictions for people traveling to the U.S. from Ebola-affected
areas in Africa, like a colloquie has more. The latest CDC guidance means Americans and other nationals who have been to the Democratic Republic of Congo within 21 days prior to traveling to the United States will not be allowed to board commercial flights with U.S. destinations. Those travelers must remain outside of the DRC for 21 days before re-entering the U.S.
The CDC says the measures are in place to reduce the risk of Ebola being brought into the
“United States. I think that certain categories of travelers will have recently been to”
Uganda or South Sudan will be required to enter the U.S. through designated airports where they will undergo health screening for impaired news on Michael Calokey in Nairobi. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. A Ukrainian known as the collector of souls for his dangerous work to recover remains on the frontlines in the war with Russia has been killed in a landmine blast and Pierscott Newman has more.
In 2014 after the Kremlin's annexation of Crimea and the insurgency in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, Alexey Yukov founded a volunteer organization known as Plotsdarm or Bridgehead to recover the dead on all sides of the conflict. Eight years later Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine intensified the need for his efforts. Earlier in the war he was severely wounded in a similar mine blast to the one that killed him earlier this week. But that didn't slow you coughed down. He was known
for getting in close to the action to recover remains and bring closure to the families of the dead. And that's where he was killed in Donetsk on a recovery mission. Scott Newman and PR News. Former President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden says his father's prostate cancer is spread to other parts of his body and is causing him pain, even as he continues to speak out on public issues. In an interview with the BBC, Hunter says his father's condition is
quote very sad to watch saying the cancer has spread, metastasized into his bones and that it's quote very painful and very debilitating. His 83-year-old father was the oldest man to serve as president and his age was a concern for much of his four years in office. I'm Janine Herbst and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. This week on the NPR Politics podcast, another progressive Democrat edges out an establishment candidate, a dual LCA1 Michigan Senate
primary campaigning on affordability, health care and ending U.S. military aid to Israel. Join us as we break down his victory and what it could signal for November's midterms on the NPR Politics podcast. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get podcasts.
