Senate Confirms Todd Blanche as Attorney General in 50-49 Vote

This is the evening edition of the One News Page Global Briefing, for Saturday, the eighth of August, twenty twenty-six. Here is what matters now.

The U S Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general early Saturday in a narrow fifty-forty-nine vote, elevating President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer to lead the Justice Department. The confirmation came after a lengthy stand-off in which Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana proved to be the decisive vote. Cassidy announced on Friday that he would support Blanche, providing a lifeline to the nomination after Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska declared she would oppose it. With Murkowski's defection, Blanche could not afford another Republican no vote and still secure approval. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the confirmation, saying Republicans had "handed Trump an excuse on a silver platter" to continue what he called "pervasive, breathtaking corruption."

Also in Washington, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Thursday aimed at restricting birthright citizenship and banning what the White House described as "birth tourism." The orders came just over a month after the Supreme Court on June thirty rejected his earlier, broader attempt to end birthright citizenship as unconstitutional. One order targets people whom Trump said enter the United States under the guise of tourism while actually intending to give birth. The administration has not released additional details, but Trump said he believed the latest actions would withstand constitutional scrutiny.

In international sport, F I F A President Gianni Infantino has strongly denied allegations that U E F A paid off a female employee alleged to have been in a relationship with him while he served as the European governing body's general secretary from two thousand and nine to twenty sixteen. U E F A has confirmed that a "departure payment" was made to the woman, but Infantino called the claims "categorically untrue." The allegations were reported by the Daily Telegraph, which investigated the circumstances of the payment. U E F A has not disputed that a severance-style payment occurred, but the characterization of the relationship and the purpose of the payment remain contested.

In the United States, authorities discovered the remains of fifty-six people improperly stored and decomposing on Thursday at a Chicago funeral home, describing what they called "deplorable conditions." The bodies were found in various stages of decomposition, and it was not immediately clear how long they had been at the facility. The funeral home is run by a couple who previously operated a crematory that was shut down over mishandled remains. Illinois state officials have suspended the license of at least one funeral director connected to the facility as the investigation continues.

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