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Live from NPR news on trial Snyder Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Mas...

have lost Tuesday's primary election, but he's encouraged by the support he received from younger voters. If you're not tired of politics, if you're not jaded, if you're not cynical and so many people are, you know, the people that, you know, want somebody that will go along to get along.

I've never heard of that strategy, but that seems to be what the voters want.

That's what's been promised to them, but not the young voters, I mean, we stirred

up something. There is a yearning in this country for somebody who will vote for principals over party. As he lost his bid for reelection to Ed Galerine, President Trump's hand picked Challenger, there will be a generational shifting Kentucky when U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell

retires at the end of his term after serving in that office since 1984. The match up to elected successors, set following Tuesday's primary care and saw our member's station WUK. Why in Lexington Kentucky reports? Congressman Andy Barr handily won the Republican primary for the Kentucky U.S. Senate

race after receiving President Trump's endorsement.

"Thank you, Mr. President, for your powerful support.

I look forward to fighting alongside you to advance our America first agenda."

Barr will face Democrat Charles Booker who ran the grassroots campaign.

McConnell, the longest serving Senate leader in U.S. history, held his seat for more than four decades. For NPR News, I'm Karen Zarr in Lexington, Kentucky. Party primaries were also held Tuesday and Alabama, Oregon, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Georgia, where voters advanced to Republicans to run off to see who will take on Democratic Senator

John Ossoff and the November midterms. More details coming out about the suspected government in the Islamic Center of San Diego shooting. The FBI says the two teenagers met online and were radicalized by hate ideology. From a member station KPBS, Alexander Winn, has details.

FBI special agent in charge, Montgomery says about the two teenage suspects. These subjects did not discriminate on who they hated. Late Tuesday, authorities conducted a search of their homes and seized more than 30 guns, as well as several electronic devices, and a note. We are dedicating every resource the FBI has to conduct a thorough analysis of that manifesto

to try to learn what led to this, but I think also more importantly, how can we stop

future attacks? Remely says the two suspects met online, then realized they were in the same city and connected in person, but they don't know is how or when they became radicalized. For NPR news, I'm Alexander Winn in San Diego. This is NPR.

The U.S. government has agreed to permanently drop tax claims against President Trump. The Justice Department has posted a one-page document to its website that says the government is forever barred and precluded from examining or prosecuting Trump his sons, the Trump

organization's current tax issues, the document part of the deal to resolve Trump's $10 billion

lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns. A new book about truth in the age of a "I" contains fake quotes that were generated by artificial intelligence. NPR's Jeff Brumfield has more on what happened. The book is called The Future of Truth, according to its website, it explores how artificial

intelligence is poised to replace human complexity with quote, "catastrophic robotic certainty." Robotics certainty appears to have been catastrophic for the book's authors, Steven Rosenbaum. He used AI to help write the book only to have it make up false quotes by prominent journalists and academics, according to The New York Times, which broke the story. In a statement 10 PR, Rosenbaum said the mis attributions were unintentional.

If this serves as a warning about the risks of AI assisted research and verification, he said in his statement, "That is why I wrote the book." He says the quotes will be fixed in future editions. Jeff Brumfield and PR news. "Our sonal is at the top of English soccer, our sonal crown premier league champions

Tuesday, winning the title for the first time in 22 years. Our sonal confirmed his champions following Manchester City's 1-1 draw at Bournemouth, leaving Arsenal with an unassailable 4-point lead at the top. This is in PR news." It can be hard to keep up with all the new movies on streaming services, how do you tell

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