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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won the most expensive, primary in U.S. Senate history.
“Paxton, Allison Ford, term Senator John Cornen for the Republican nomination, and will”
face Democratic State Representative James Taloreco in November. Despite Paxton's multiple scandals, President Trump endorsed him last week. President Trump's redistricting effort was dealt a blow on South Carolina today, several Republican lawmakers joined Democrats in blocking a new congressional map, South Carolina Public Radios Gavin Jackson reports.
26,000 voters had already cast early ballots in person for the June 9th primary. The Republicans voting to kill the new map said that it was too late. The map could have helped the GOP take South Carolina's loan democratic seat, held by Congressman Jim Clyburn. The failed attempt cap three weeks of rushed hearings, a special session called by the
governor, long debates, limited public input, and questions over a map lawmakers said
it was crafted by the White House.
South Carolina's State Senate is not up for election this fall, meaning lawmakers might be insulated for a while from criticism by Trump.
“For impure news, I'm Gavin Jackson and Columbia.”
The Trump administration is proposing a new government-wide non-disclosure agreement for federal employees, and Piersandrius shoe reports the administration says media leaks have put federal agents and military members in danger. In its proposed rule, the Office of Personnel Management says recent leaks about immigration enforcement, and the U.S. rate on Venezuela underscore the need for NDAs.
But the proposal also appears aimed at stopping leaks related to policy and personnel matters more generally. Already, federal workers are required to safeguard confidential and proprietary government information. Now, the administration is defining that broadly, to include information about internal
agency operations and deliberative material that is not publicly available. According to the proposal, agencies would decide for themselves whether to use the NDA and federal employees would still have the right to disclose information as part of whistleblower complaints. And reassure and PR news.
“Street drug deaths in the United States continued to require to drop declining roughly”
14% last year, according to the CDC. Here's impures Brian Mann. U.S. overdose deaths peaked in 2023 with more than 110,000 fatalities in a 12-month period. They've been plunging ever since. According to the CDC, roughly 69,900 people died from overdoses in 2025.
The lowest number of street drug deaths in a 12-month period since 2019. Experts say the drop is due to better medications for treating opioid addiction and wider access to healthcare. There's also been progress disrupting the smuggling of illicit fentanyl. Alabama, New York and Virginia saw the biggest drops in drug deaths, but there are still
problem areas, Arizona, New Mexico and North Dakota have actually seen sharp increases in fatal overdoses, Brian Mann and PR news. This is NPR news. A day after concerns eased about a chemical tank and southern California, there has been a chemical tank implosion in Washington State.
The tank imploded at a pulp and paper mill in Longview, a thorny say one person was killed in nine others entered some of them severely, nine people remain unaccounted for. In California, officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion has largely passed, the AP now reporting that authorities are lifting evacuation orders for the final 16,000 people in Garden Grove near Los Angeles.
The sports car maker Ferrari has unveiled its newest model in the company's share price, promptly tanked to appear as John Ruach explains why. The new car is a sleek Fordor sedan called the Ferrari Luché, which is Italian for light. Was designed by Apple's former top designer Johnny Iv's firm love from has a price tag of $640,000 and it's something totally new for Ferrari.
It's the company's first fully electric vehicle, so it won't have that signature engine
grow. Critics and investors were not impressed. On X, Italy's deputy prime minister and transport minister Mateo Salvini called it "extremely expensive" and said it looks nothing like a Ferrari. This is supposed to be innovation he wrote, adding he wondered what the company's late
founder Enzo Ferrari would think. Ferrari's Milan listed shares skidded 8.4% after the car was revealed, and its New York listed shares tumbled 5.3%. John Ruach and PR News. Financial markets in Asia largely advancing and Wednesday trading and print crude oil,
the International Standard, trading near $100 a barrel. This is in PR News. Brazil used to have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. People called it the "country of the future." "There are songs, obrazi, well-païe, do futur, because it seems like we have it all, man."
But then the music stopped. On the planet money podcast, a lot of countries these days aren't rich, they aren't poor, they're just kind of stuck in the middle.
Why is that?
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