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General Ken Paxton over four term and come at John Cornan in their Senate primary today
“after an endorsement from President Trump, according to a race call by the Associated”
Press.
At more than $100 million, it was the most expensive primary and Senate history Democrats
hope the seat could be attainable because of divisions among Republicans in the race, Paxton spoke during a rally after the results came in. Without a shadow of the doubt, I will be the Democrats, number one target in November. Texas will be the radical left, number one priority, but there's one thing I know about Texans.
It's that we're not going to let them take it. Paxton will face Democrat James Taloreco in the General Election. Paxton's time in office has been scandal plagued. He's fended off criminal indictments whistleblower allegations and an impeachment by the Texas House, he was acquitted in the Texas Senate.
A federal court in Alabama has blocked the State's redistricting plan, but Tennessee's
new congressional maps have withstood their first legal challenge.
“Mariana Bakiao, a third judge panel in Tennessee rejected an emergency petition filed”
by the NAACP to stop the new congressional map from going into effect. The change splits the state's majority black city of Memphis into three different districts. The NAACP had argued that the General Assembly went beyond its authority when it struck down a 50-year-old law prohibiting mid-decade redistricting. The judge's disagreed.
The petition is the first of four lawsuits seeking to block the new map, and a separate lawsuit by the NAACP filed in federal court is still going forward. For NPR news, I'm Mariana Bakiao in Nashville. The U.S. men's soccer team is announced the 26-man roster for this summer's World Cup, NPR's Becky Sullivan reports the squad as split between World Cup veterans and newcomers.
The roster was rolled out with all the bells and whistles at a public fan event in New York City, one by one the players were called to the stage and introduced to a cheering crowd. Among the veterans on the team are mid-fielders, Western McKinney and Tyler Adams, plus defender Tim Riem, and, of course, forward Christian Plyssic, the country's biggest soccer star.
“You only have a World Cup in your home country once in your life, so I'm going to take”
advantage of these opportunities, and I'm grateful I get to do this. The new faces include defender Chris Richards and forward Alex and DeHas, hopes are high for this U.S. squad with the World Cup here on home soil.
They have two tune-up friendly matches in the coming days, before their first World Cup game
on June 12th. Becky Sullivan and PR news, New York. NASA is already ordering landers, rovers, and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis two mission. NASA outlined the first phase of its moon base plans today.
The hardware should arrive ahead of the first Artemis astronauts' landing, which is planned for its early as 2028. You're listening to NPR news from Washington. Attorney say a woman fired by Ball State University in Indiana over her Facebook post criticizing Charlie Kirk will receive $225,000 in a legal settlement.
The ACLU of Indiana says the school agreed to the payout to settle a first amendment lawsuit by Suzanne Swerck, the president of Ball State, defended the firing saying the post-cost extraordinary damage to the school's reputation. Ride Hail Drivers and Massachusetts today are celebrating becoming the industry's first certified labor union from the number station WBU R. Andrea Perdomo Hernandez reports.
In 2024, voters and Massachusetts approved the ride of Uber and Lyft Drivers to organize. The measure paved the way for ride Hail Drivers considered independent contractors to form a union. Now the app driver's union is formally recognized by the state. Here's service employees and international union president, April Verdon. "This is the starting line.
Tomorrow we organize, tomorrow we build more power, and tomorrow we win. History is ours to shape. Now let's go get it." Where it says the group plans to negotiate pay and work conditions with platforms like Lyft and Uber in the near future.
For NPR News, I'm Andrea Perdomo Hernandez in Boston. Jim Henson's puppet-making studio is drawing back its curtain, guided walkthroughs of the creature shop began in February and Queens. The tours give fans a chance to meet a puppet builder and see a demonstration with characters from Fragile Rock, the Muppet Show in Sesame Street, Henson found to the workshop in the
1960s and died in 1990. This is NPR News from Washington. From Spider-Man to a new Steven Spielberg movie, we know that TV and movies you'll want to watch this summer. "I'm excited about this film.
I just know suspense, intrigue, aliens, and I'm like, alright, Spielberg, I'm in." Check out the summer guide from Pop Culture Happy Hour, listen on the NPR app, or wherever you get podcasts.
