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Attorney General Todd Blanche says President Trump will never ask him to do something
on ethical or illegal.
“On NBC's meet the press, he also declined to pledge to act independently from the White”
House. No, I'm not going to pledge that. And no Attorney General should ever pledge that. The President, I mean, if I were to pledge, I will be independent of the White House. What that means is that if President Trump says I want the Department of Justice to go
after every violent criminal in this country, which is what he has said, what you're saying to me is I just say no sir, I'm not going to do it. So I will act with integrity. Blanche also said the anti-weaponization fund is dead, although the President still strongly believes those who feel they were mistreated by the Justice Department should be compensated.
The Attorney General's confirmation had been stalled for some time when some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee criticized the President's anti-weaponization fund and provisions that could compensate January 6th protesters convicted of assaulting police.
“severe storms and flooding are being reported across parts of the Midwest, Indiana has”
been especially hard hit with rivers reaching record levels and hundreds of people forced from their homes. Samantha Horton from Member Station W. FYI has more. In the town of Rocky Ripple along the White River, residents are more than 300 homes were urged to evacuate.
Along here is helped to fill sandbags for residents to try to protect their homes. Some sandbags were also used to reinforce the levee keeping the water back. Town Council President Randy Sanders says the flood is expected to be the worst since 1913. Projections right now are that the water could be a foot over top of the levee here.
And there's also some weak spots in the levee. And if we lose any part of it, we're going to lose most of the town. President Trump approved federal aid to assist in emergency response efforts. Friend Pyrenees, I'm Samantha Horton, and Indianapolis. In the wake of the death of a black British professor who resigned over plagiarism allegations,
the university that employed him and the Prime Minister are responding. Jason R. Day was a celebrated 41-year-old Cambridge University scholar, whose rise to prominence led him to become the school's youngest black professor. He resigned two weeks ago amidst allegations of plagiarism and falsifying his personal history.
And was found dead last week. His family suggests a campaign of misinformation helped lead to his death, Prime Minister Andy Burnham. A really sad, sad and sorry state of affairs.
“And I think we just all today think of Jason, his contribution and his family and friends.”
In a statement, Cambridge University insists it offered our day pastoral care both before and after he stepped down for NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker, in London. You're listening to NPR. The death toll in Eastern Indonesia after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake is now at least 53. Michael Sullivan has more.
The US Geological Survey reports the epicenter of the quake was off the northern coast of the island of Flores in the east of the country at a depth of roughly six miles. A tsunami warning was issued then cancelled roughly two and a half hours later. But authorities say they've been hundreds of aftershocks and more than 5,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
It's unclear how many more remained buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Indonesia is an archipelago of some 17,000 islands and more than 280 million people that
sits along the seismically active rig of fire where volcanic eruptions and earthquakes are fairly frequent. Friend PR News, a Michael Sullivan, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Cosio Cortez is very public decision to freeze her eggs and spark some criticism from Republicans.
Others have said this criticism is no way to win over female voters. The Congresswoman had some advice for other women. Make the decision not based on what someone on the internet is saying. Make your decision if you even want biological children. Make your decision not based on some right-wing person that's just trying to make you feel
diminished, scared, and less than. Cosio Cortez posted those comments on Instagram.
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