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Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general clears critical hurdle after deal with GOP holdouts

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Aug 04, 2026 11:08 am - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche cleared a critical hurdle Tuesday in his bid to be confirmed to the post after swaying Republican holdouts on a Senate committee to advance his nomination for a floor vote.
US job openings slip to 7.4 million, but labor market remains resilient in face of fighting in Iran

By PAUL WISEMAN
Aug 04, 2026 9:56 am - U.S. job openings fell slightly in June, but the labor market continued to show resilience in the face of an economic shock from fighting in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump is making a rare Western trip to to raise cash for Republicans and talk about the economy

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Aug 04, 2026 7:53 am - President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California and Nevada this week to try to draw contrasts with Democrats on the economy, border security and crime, seeking to shore up support for Republicans in November elections that will determine whether his party keeps control of Congress.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos lead $200M project to save 100 of globe’s most threatened species

Aug 04, 2026 6:46 am - Foundations funded and co-founded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos have launched an initiative committing $200 million to revive 100 of Earth’s most threatened species, including endangered lemurs, salamanders, pangolins, pigs and echidnas.
Nauru, the world’s 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
Aug 03, 2026 8:22 pm - The Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language.
Cubans sleep on seaside boardwalk to seek relief from crippling blackouts, summer heat

By ARIEL FERNÁNDEZ and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ
Aug 03, 2026 8:18 pm - Alexey Ríos García awoke not to his bed in Cuba 's capital on Monday, but to an ocean breeze and the concrete of Havana's famous seaside boulevard.
Europe’s hot, dry summer takes its toll with fires in France and Greece, and drought in the UK

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and SYLVIE CORBET
Aug 03, 2026 7:58 pm - A record-breaking hot and dry summer tightened its grip on Europe on Monday, as water-dropping planes swooped over a major wildfire in Greece, firefighters in France sought to stabilize a blaze in Provence, and much of the United Kingdom recorded its driest July in nearly two centuries.
Contractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico

By MIKELLA SCHUETTLER
Aug 03, 2026 7:29 pm - PHOENIX — The Trump administration has ordered construction crews on a border wall to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico after ranchers said pumping groun...
Former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondents Pelley, Alfonsi go from newsroom to classroom

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Aug 03, 2026 7:18 pm - Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, two of the correspondents ousted from “60 Minutes” as part of a major shakeup at the storied CBS News show, are moving from the newsroom to the classroom.
Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing

By BERNAT ARMANGUE and JOSEPH WILSON
Aug 03, 2026 7:14 pm - The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind.

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