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Todd Blanche backs decision to block CNN from Air Force One
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- Sep 28, 2026, 12:13 AM UTC
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Air Force One
USAF aircraft carrying the US president
Air Force One is the official air traffic control–designated call sign for a United States Air Force aircraft carrying the president of the United States. The term is commonly used to denote U.S. Air Force aircraft modified and used to transport the president, and as a metonym for the primary presidential aircraft, VC-25 or VC-25B, although it can be used to refer to any Air Force aircraft the president travels on.
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Todd Blanche
American attorney (born 1974)
Todd Wallace Blanche is an American attorney and former prosecutor who is the 88th United States attorney general, having served in an acting capacity from April 2026 until his confirmation in August. Blanche has also served as the 40th deputy U.S. attorney general from 2025 to 2026 and as the acting librarian of Congress since 2025, although the legality of the latter appointment has been disputed.
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CNN
American news channel
Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN) is an American multinational news media company and the flagship namesake property of CNN Worldwide, a division of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on June 1, 1980, by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, CNN is the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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