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Todd Blanche refused to commit to a Justice Department wholly independent from the White
“House, and appears Jacqueline Diaz reports he was asked to make this pledge on and”
be seized meet the press. After the scandal of Watergate, it was standard that the DOJ and the White House were kept completely separate, even though the president would nominate in Attorney General. The DOJ handled its own affairs and prosecuted cases without input from the president. Blanche refused to pledge an independent DOJ when asked by meet the press host, Kristen Walker.
"No, I'm not going to pledge that, and no Attorney General should ever pledge that." Blanche's comments were made just days after a close confirmation vote. He replaced Pan-Bondi, who Trump fired after Bondi was seen as having not moved fastened up to prosecute his opponents, including former FBI director James Komi. Brooklyn Diaz and PR News.
“The Democratic Party has approved a new road map for choosing its next presidential”
nominee. The changes reshape the opening stretch of the 2028 primary and break with decades of tradition as in President-Presidential Elections, the Democrats calendar will no longer begin with primaries or caucuses in Iowa and New Hampshire, two small rural white states. Instead, it will begin with South Carolina and then Nevada.
Democrats say because those states are more diverse, black and Hispanic voters will represent the Democratic Party more fully and help the party nominate candidates more able to win a general election. After South Carolina and Nevada, the Democrats have slotted New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan, and then Virginia.
Mara Lyerson, NPR News.
“In Latin America's largest economy, presidential candidates today rallied supporters”
on the first official day of campaigning before Brazil's October 4th primary.
The two top candidates are almost a repeat of the divisive election four years ago, except the challenger is the son of Brazil's far-right party's leader, currently under house attention, and PR's carry-con reports. With total humility, except the mission, President Bolsonaro passed to me, he said, referring to his father, the former far-right president convicted of plotting a coup to overturn his
electoral last four years ago. The younger Bolsonaro pledges to crack down on crime atop issue for voters. After President Luis Nacionalula, the silver campaigned in a stronghold of São Paulo state, the 80-year-old touted his standing-up to President Trump's harsh rhetoric and hit tariffs. Carry-con and PR news, Rio de Janeiro.
You're listening to NPR from New York City. In eastern Indonesia, rescue teams continue to search for survivors of Saturday's magnitude 7.7 earthquake. It struck off the island of Flores. Early morning while many were still sleeping, scientists and disaster management officials say nearly 1,000 aftershocks have been reported so far. Today, rescuers found more bodies in the Regencies of Sica, Mangerai,
and East Mangerai, increasing the death toll to at least 53. There are still isolated villages that are inaccessible because of landslides or mudslides. Local authorities said more than 1,300 homes were damaged, along with health care facilities, schools, and government offices. Hollywood is setting some fresh box office milestones, and PR's Bob Mandela has details.
In just 17 days in theaters, Spider-Man brand new day has joined the very exclusive $2 billion
record. It is the eighth film in history to have reached that number in worldwide ticket sales. The Odyssey, meanwhile, has become filmmaker Christopher Nolan's biggest box office hit at almost 1.3 billion worldwide. And Toy Story 5 has passed all previous toy stories to take in just over 1.1 billion. Combined with the Michael Jackson Biopic Michael, and the animated Super Mario Galaxy movie. That means that even before Avengers doomsday and doom three arrive in December. 2026 has already produced $5 billion films more than any year since the pandemic. Bob Mandela and PR news.
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