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FILE - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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Blanche rescinds fund for Trump supporters after GOP senators threaten to block his AG bid

Read full article: Blanche rescinds fund for Trump supporters after GOP senators threaten to block his AG bid

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has issued a formal order terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies.

News4JAX Channel 4 - Besmir Licaj
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‘He was an angel in our house’: Sister of man who drowned in Jacksonville retention pond speaks out

Read full article: ‘He was an angel in our house’: Sister of man who drowned in Jacksonville retention pond speaks out

Less than a week after 39-year-old Besmir Licaj drowned in a retention pond at a Jacksonville apartment complex, his sister returned to the water’s edge for the first time to speak publicly about the brother she lost. Licaj was found unresponsive in a retention pond at Coquina Bay Apartments off San Pablo Road on July 29. Bystanders pulled him from the water, but he did not survive. On Saturday, his sister Blerta Gurguri and close family friend Tammy Wilson met News4JAX at that same pond, throwing flowers into the water as they grieved.

FILE - House Appropriations Committee Chair Kay Granger, R-Texas, and her panel begin work on fiscal 2024 spending bills, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Kay Granger, first Republican woman from Texas to serve in the House, has died at age 83

Read full article: Kay Granger, first Republican woman from Texas to serve in the House, has died at age 83

Kay Granger, the first Republican woman from Texas to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and who served for nearly three decades, has died.

A person walks past an electronic board showing the U.S. dollar and Japanese yen exchange rate at a securities firm in Tokyo on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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US dollar weakens sharply against the Japanese yen after market interventions

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The U.S. dollar has weakened sharply against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets.