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Why did Senator Bill Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Linda Kenyon. The Senate has voted to confirm Todd Blanch to serve as Attorney General. The deciding vote came from Louisiana Republican Senator Bill Cassidy. NPR's Claudia Grisales reports on what made Cassidy support Blanche.
He admitted he too had concerns over Blanche's role in things like that anti weaponization fund. Here's Cassidy on the Senate floor.
mister Blanche is not perfect and he will tell you this, but the choice is not between perfection and mister Blanche. It is between mister Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively under President Trump.
How will the federal judge’s order to pay $65 million affect legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children?
So he argued Blanche would actually have more leverage to push against the president if he was confirmed to the role.
Other Republican senators, including Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, did not support Blanche's confirmation in part due to his previous role as President Trump's personal attorney, and whether he would challenge the president. They also cited Blanche's handling of the Epstein files and whether his assurances against the anti weaponization fund would stand. Legal aid groups that have represented migrant children for months without pay could soon be getting a check from the Trump administration after a federal judge's order. Tike Hendricks reports from Member Station KQED.
In December, the government stopped paying the nonprofits for representing unaccompanied kids in immigration court. This week, a federal judge in Oakland ordered the government to pay about sixty-five million dollars. The checks are due to arrive Monday.
What factors are driving the stock market’s rise despite weak job numbers and higher energy costs?
It's incredibly important to have this money. Alvaro Huerta with Immigrant Defenders Law Center in Los Angeles represents the groups. Because we do feel an ethical obligation and moral obligation to ensure that children have someone standing beside them in court. The future's unclear for the nation's more than twenty thousand unaccompanied kids because the legal aid contract expired last month. For NPR News, I'm Tike Hendricks in San Francisco.
The stock market soared this week, even as the job market showed signs of weakness.
NPR Scott Horsley reports 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. Retail gasoline prices have been falling in recent days, although they're still more than a dollar a gallon higher than they were when the war began.
What is the scope of the wildfire emergency in British Columbia and how are officials responding?
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 three percent, the S P five hundred index climbed more than three and a half percent, and the Tech Heavy NASDAQ jumped more than five percent. Scott Horsley, MPR News, Washington.
Investors shrugged off the news that employers cut more than twenty thousand jobs last month. You're listening to NBR. Thousands of people in central British Columbia are fleeing of fast moving wildfire.
Why are California and Texas requiring political disclosure from content creators ahead of the midterms?
It's just one of dozens of wildfires spreading across the province. As Dan Karpinchuk reports, officials in the District of Summerlin have declared a state of emergency.
The evacuation order covers the entire district. Officials say the Bald Range wildfire exploded in size over the past twenty-four hours and now poses a significant threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the more than twelve thousand people who live there. The region's emergency information officer says it has become one of the quickest moving and fastest growing fires experienced in the area. Recent surveys suggest the fires in British Columbia, the Northwest, and in Northern Ontario have sparked a sharp rise in Canadians' concerns about climate change. For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpinchuk in Toronto.
California is joining Texas in requiring content creators to say if they've been paid by a political campaign to post about a particular candidate.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why did Senator Bill Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General?
0:01–0:37
2
How will the federal judge’s order to pay $65 million affect legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children?
0:37–1:34
3
What factors are driving the stock market’s rise despite weak job numbers and higher energy costs?
1:34–2:25
4
What is the scope of the wildfire emergency in British Columbia and how are officials responding?
2:25–3:05
5
Why are California and Texas requiring political disclosure from content creators ahead of the midterms?
3:05–3:59
6
What highlights from the ‘Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!’ interview with Sally Field are featured in this episode?
3:59–5:04