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The Senate has a narrow lead confirmed Todd Blanch to serve as the next attorney general of the United States.
“The upper chamber voted on his nomination early this morning, all Democrats voted against”
it along with two Republicans, and PR's run-uping reports Blanch received enough votes after weeks of opposition from both parties.
But they say they got a written commitment that Blanch would not pursue that $1.8 billion
compensation fund the Trump wants for people prosecuted under their Biden administration including the rioters, who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. But the last holdouts who gave in also expressed more general frustration, saying a vote against Blanch would not rain in Trump, or saying anyone Trump appointed to replace Blanch would be just as bad or worse.
That's NPR's run-elving reporting. The stock markets sort this week, even as the job market showed signs of weakness, NPR's Scott Horsley reports investors shrugged off news that U.S. employers cut more than 20,000 jobs last month.
“Investors focus their attention on strong corporate earnings reports and renewed hopes”
that a diplomatic deal can be reached to end the war with Iran.
The Ogasalene 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.
Investors 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 in X-plime more than 3.5% and the tech heavy NASDAQ jumped more than 5%. Scott Horsley and Pironu is Washington. Many parts of Europe are bracing for 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 UK, where London is about to”
experience its fifth heat wave of the season, all of Italy's major cities around the highest level of heat alert and record heat's been reported in neighbouring Austria. Several European countries have been experiencing temperatures above 104 Fahrenheit, prompting health warnings for millions of elderly or otherwise medically vulnerable people. Pinosologists 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. You're listening to NPR News from Washington.
Under his heat is gripping much of the country with 73 million Americans under heat alerts.
The National Weather Service says the most intense conditions are building across many parts of the southwest. Temperatures could climb well into the triple digits in some areas. A study on boomers and Washington stage shows the large cats, also called Cougars and Mountain Lions, may make roadways safer for drivers.
Researchers combined data from more than 500 wildlife cameras around the Olympic Peninsula. They also looked at the number of vehicle wildlife collisions and found were pumas were most active. There were 76% fewer vehicle collisions with deer compared to areas with the least amount of boom activity.
Justin Sarachi at Conservation Science Partners says the pumas are likely changing deer behavior. They're actually spending less of their time near roads. Which he thinks is so deer can avoid the open space that roads provide, which are ideal hunting grounds for ambush predators like pumas.
Sarachi says these results could add to conversations around allowing pumas to naturally recolonize areas where they're currently popping up in the Midwest, or even reintroduction. The results appear in the journal Current Biology, Burley McCoy and PR News. Wildfires 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. Hi, Mr. Johnson and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. 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 60s television series The Flying None. I was on a 50-foot crane and they were climbing into a site of a building.
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