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Attorney General Todd Blanch says the plan to launch an anti-weaponization fund to compensate
“people the Trump administration says were hurt by the Biden administration is now dead.”
NPR's Kerry Johnson reports the idea prompted bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill."
Todd Blanch says there's no infrastructure for the nearly $1.8 billion fund, no commissioners
and no transfer of money from the Treasury. President Trump touted the fund as a way to help his supporters who faced charges, including for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. Blanch addressed the question with reporters at the DOJ. "He feels very strongly that he would want to make them whole as do I, but it will
not be through the anti-weaponization fund." January 6th defendants and other Trump allies already have filed separate legal claims with the Justice Department seeking money for the ways they say the DOJ harm them. Kerry Johnson and PR News Washington. "The Justice Department filed criminal charges today against a hate group researcher who
used to work at the Southern Poverty Law Center. NPR's Jude Jaffee Block reports." Heidi Birek is an expert in white supremacist hate groups and used to direct southern poverty law centers intelligence project, which used paid informants to track extremist groups. The Justice Department has accused the organization and Birek of making improper payments
of millions of dollars to informants through fictitious companies. Birek's attorney Michael Proctor said in a statement that Birek is innocent.
“The case is politically motivated, and that she was targeted because of quote, "her important”
work combating hate groups and extremists." Federal officials said Birek was arrested Wednesday, but her lawyer disputed that and said she voluntarily appeared in court to fight the charges. Jude Jaffee Block and PR News. Inflation cooled a bit last month, gas and grocery prices fell, and PR's Scott Horsley
reports on the latest cost of living figures from the labor department.
Consumer prices in July were up 3.4 percent from a year ago.
That's a slightly smaller annual increase than the month before. Prices rose just a tenth of a percent between June and July, rising rents and air fairs during the month were partially offset by falling prices for gasoline and groceries. Green prices are still much higher than they were a year ago, electricity prices are also climbing faster than overall inflation.
Stripping out valuable food and energy prices, core inflation was 2.5 percent over the last 12 months. easing inflation will be welcome news for the Federal Reserve, the central bank has promised to bring price hikes under control. Scott Horsley and PR News, Washington.
It was a mixed market on Wall Street. And down lost 21 points to close at 53,770, the Nasdaq added 143 closing at 26,588. The S&P finished up 20 7,748. It's NPR News from Washington. Fire managers in the Northwest are bracing for a storm system with possible thunderstorms
in high winds. The weather could make wildfires grow quickly. NPR's Kurt Ziegler reports forecasters are implementing fire weather watches. This forecast is a good news bad news situation. The storm could bring lightning and high winds to fan more fires, but possible rain and those
winds could help blow out dense smoke that's been trapped in valleys here for weeks. It is what it is. I don't want my daughter come out in it but dog sauce to get exercise on the way. She's pain. So here we are.
In Idaho, Casey Mooney is taking her dog for a morning hike in the foothills above downtown Boise a recent wildfire here was a close call for the city but ended up just blackening the sagebrush and grasses in the popular trail system. It's been hit and miss better worse, better worse. So we get out as early as we can and get home and get inside.
Into the AC before it hits 100 degrees again. Kirk Sigler and PR News, Boise. Some agents at immigration and customs enforcement will be getting new gloves to wear on the field. The gloves can deliver a 380 volt electric shock to people.
The agents are attempting to detain.
The agency says it plans to spend $20 million to outfit the officers, which I says
dubbed as de-escalation devices. Civil rights advocates and some elected officials are calling the gloves cool and warning they cannot be misused. White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt is leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month.
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