Men p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Senate Republicans say they could confirm a replacement before the November election N.P.R. s Daniel Kurtz Laban has more Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasted no time in addressing Kennedy s retirement the Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on president trumps nominated to fill this role I consider confirmation requires a simple majority of 51 votes Senate Republicans currently hold 51 seats Senator John McCain has been away battling brain cancer but Vice President Mike Pence could break a tie McConnell drew heavy criticism from Democrats for blocking President Obama s Supreme Court pick holding the seat in hopes of a Republican nominee Democrats are blasting McConnell now for pledging to confirm a nominee just before midterm elections Daniel Kurtz Lavan n.p.r. News Washington protesters outside the headquarters of u.s. Imm
We ll be joined by China Russia and Iran to see if they can work around u.s. Sanctions and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tells n.p.r. He supports the investigations into Russia and interference into Trump s 2016 campaign It s Friday May 25th Mike Myers the actor gave us Plainsboro this 55 today Party on my The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington Herbst companies around the world are grappling with a new data privacy law and that by the European Union that affects any firm with European customers or shelter reports that Europeans are finding their access to some websites blocked by sites that either can t or won t comply with the strict new data laws the e.u. General data protection regulation means websites must get explicit consent to gather data and rules for storing and using it are much more strict but despite a 2 year transition period many companies aren t ready and are therefore blocking residents either temporarily or permanently the l.a. Times for examp
Looking back American Morning Glory to you I m joined this hour by Patrick Morrissey the attorney general of the great Mountaineer State of West Virginia Good morning General Morrissey it s great to have you back I was with one of your former colleagues yesterday in the day before Scott Pruitt was barnstorming through California looking at Superfund sites and giving speeches and I interviewed him once and I listened to him at the Hoover Institution and I remember I met him in you at the Republican attorney generals association you make graded minister and candidate I just think there s something about being a state attorney general it gets ready for the show. Well thanks to you 1st of all it s great to be back on your program spend some time with you and I do think that the crop of attorneys general that we have really only to do some incredible things for our country and I was obviously very pleased to work with Scott and a number of H.G. s as we talked on that alone very I think th
1995. B.B.C. Radio still. It s 7 o clock Monday the 26th of March you re listening to Good Morning Scotland with Julian marls and Gary Robertson our top story this morning X Kaplan Education Minister Carl upon city is to fight extradition from Scotland. Discussions that these constitutional discussions. Will speak to a lawyer American war after the news coming up with the deadline looming on the 20 percent of Scotland s largest employers of published details of the gender pay gap and has a team at the head it what developed a technique that could change the global energy balance. The B.B.C. News a professor from St Andrews University is preparing to Hunter self over to police in Scotland after a warrant was issued for her arrest cleared up on Saturday was a minister in the Catalan government when it declared independence from Spain and October she faces charges of rebellion with violence and up to 30 years in jail the former leader of Catalonia Carlos put you more is due to appear bef
Dispersal by force of the Occupy Wall Street movement in Manhattan from k p s a Berkeley and k p s k Los Angeles this is the Pacifica Evening News with Glenn Rader I m Eileen out in Derry. Published reports say President Donald Trump directed his White House counsel to tell Attorney General Jeff Sessions to not recuse himself from the Justice Department investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign the sources say the conversation between Don McGann and sessions took place on the president s orders and occurred just before sessions announced he would step aside from the inquiry a New York Times report said Trump erupted in anger in front of numerous White House officials saying he needed his attorney general to protect him former ethics watchdog Walter Shaab appeared on c.n.n. Where he called White House counsel Don McGann a cancer who has done much to undermine anti-corruption mechanisms in this country he can try to hide behind the I was only following orde