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James Taloreco a victory according to an associated press race called Taloreco 1 Tuesday's
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
“Here he is speaking to supporters last night before he was declared the winner over Congresswoman”
Jasmine Crocket. We launched this underdog campaign six months ago in my hometown of Roundrock, Texas. And since then, and since then, tens of thousands of Texans have shown up to rally with us in every corner of the state, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville and everywhere in between.
Taloreco is declared the winner after confusion and Dallas and Williams and counties over new precinct rules. Taloreco's Republican opponent this November has yet to be decided and comments Senator John Corden is heading to a runoff this May against state attorney general Ken Paxton. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says U.S. embassies are under attack after an Iranian drone
struck near the U.S. consulate into buy, and two Iranian drones caused a fire and damage at the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in Piersman Show Elementary Sports. In between meetings on Capitol Hill, Secretary Rubio offered a brief update about the incident in Dubai. The drone, unfortunately, struck a parking lot adjacent to the Chancellery Building and then
a set off a fire in that place, all personnel are accounted for as you're aware. We began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this. At least in a few embassies. Since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran, the state department has evacuated
“non-essential personnel from many more embassies and consulates, and is now organizing”
a evacuation flight for private Americans. Rubio is urging Americans to call a hotline if they need help. Michelle Kellerman and PR News, the state department. Senate committee today will vote on whether to advance President Trump's controversial nominee to be the nation's next public lands chief.
And Piers Kirk's Segular reports of former New Mexico Congressman Steve Pearce once called for selling the public lands he potentially be managing. The former owner of an oil-field services company 78-year-old Steve Pearce's a Trump loyalist who pushed conspiracy theories that there was widespread fraud in New Mexico in the 2020 election.
The main flashpoint over today's committee vote to lead the Bureau of Land Management rests on calls he once made as a congressman to sell off federal public lands to raise revenue.
“That's widely unpopular in the West, including in his home state where Becky Coran is a city”
counselor in Las Cruces. He really looks at public lands in particular as places that should be bringing in more profit for corporations. Hearing last week, Pearce told senators he had no plans to push for selling public lands that's the purview of Congress.
You're listening to in PR News. At the hampered nuclear clean up site in southeast Washington state, a federal contractor
has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle fraud allegations.
The US Department of Justice says that a federal contractor charge for time that workers were idle. They accused Hanford Mission Integration Solutions of knowing that those charges were wrong. It all came out from a whistleblower. He claimed that Hanford's fire control systems were not being maintained by his employer.
Richard Condit is with the whistleblower's law firm. He says the company's plans for workers were mismanaged. They did not want to sit around and so it was very frustrating to them not to be out in the field doing what they needed to do. According to the Justice Department, the falsified record keeping happened for several
years. For NPR News, I'm Anna King. With the war in the Middle East now in its fifth day, the US Senate has headed toward a vote on President Trump's decision to attack Iran alongside Israel. The Senate is to vote Wednesday on a war powers resolution, which would demand that Congress
give its approval before any further attacks are carried out. The House is to vote on Thursday. European chairs ticked up at the open after declines in Asia at a global stock cell off-sparked by concern about the conflict in Iran.
South Korea's benchmark plunge more than 12 percent.
In the past, NKK closed down more than 3 percent as oil prices climb higher. I'm trial Snyder, NPR News.
