>> Live from NPR news, I'm Jial Snyder, the Democratic primary for U.
been called in favor of state representative James Taloreco, the associate of press called
“the racist wartime ago in Taloreco, sounded optimistic when he spoke to supporters earlier”
in the night.
>> The number of Texans who have never voted before, but showed up in this election is unprecedented.
The number of independence and Republicans who voted in this Democratic primary is unprecedented. This is proof that there is something happening in Texas. >> Taloreco-Best at Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket, he will now face the winner of a May 26 runoff between Republican incumbent Senator John Corden and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The war in the Middle East now and its fifth day explosions have been heard in Iran's
capital city and into Russel, Iranian state television reported explosions in Tehran at Don Wednesday, Israel says its air defenses were activated because of incoming Iranian missile fire. President Trump has suggested the war could last several weeks, or longer, and his reasons for attacking Iran continue to shift.
And Piers D. Pashivron reports he now says it was proactive. Trump had previously said that the US acted in Iran because Tehran's nuclear program was close to having missiles that could reach the US.
Now he says he believed in Iranian attack was coming first, though he did not cite any
intelligence to that effect. >> It was my opinion that they were going to attack first, they were going to attack first. I felt strongly about that. >> The US struck Iran over the weekend after weeks of building up a large military presence in the region.
And as negotiations to try to reach a deal with Iran were ongoing, Trump touted the success of the mission thus far, though he has not outlined how he sees the conflict ending, but he did say that "lots of people are coming forward to negotiate a resolution." D. Pashivron and P yarnu is the White House. >> This week's deposition from Bill and Hillary Clinton in connection with the House and
bestogation into the late convicted sex-fender Jeffrey Epstein, now public and Piers Sage Miller report. Jeffrey Clinton told lawmakers she was confused as to why she was being deposed. She said it was her husband, former President Bill Clinton, that had a working relationship with the disgraced finance year.
But there were contentious moments between Clinton and some Republican members of the committee. Congresswoman Nancy Mace asked Clinton how she felt about a photo that showed her husband in a hot tub. >> I have no context for even answering that question.
“And I think, you know, obviously the New Window, all the rest of it, I'm asking a black”
and my question. I'm not putting any leading statements into it or adjectives. >> But Mace kept pressing Clinton on her thoughts. Neither of the Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing. Sage Miller and PR news.
>> This is MPR. Homeland Security Secretary Kristy Nome was on Capitol Hill Tuesday, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee where she defended her agency amid a backlash over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
It was her first congressional hearing since two protesters were killed amid theapolis
in January and it came amid the shutdown of her department. Democrats have refused to agree to new funding without changes to immigration enforcement practices, funding laps last month, but most immigration enforcement and national security
“operations are deemed essential and continue.”
The lantern festival was held Tuesday and China anti-wan. It celebrated on the first full moon of the lunar calendar. And this year was a blood moon, a total lunar eclipse, which put on a show Monday night for people in North America. And PR assembly Fang has more.
>> Across Taiwan and China, people celebrated UNSELSEA, or the lantern festival, the 15th day of the lunar new year, and a time for family and friends together. And Taiwan's Pinky District, people gathered as tradition, and let go large paper wish lanterns on which they'd written with ink-collegraphy their wishes for the year of the firehorse. And in China, people help parades and dance performances to celebrate the full moon.
And people ate tongue-yens, sweet, glutinous rice balls often filled with sesame-paste because their shape resembles the full moon, and they're eaten for good luck on lantern festival and the winter solstice, Emily Fang and Pyrenees.
