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In Texas today, a high stakes Senate primary runoff is taking place between two Republicans
“in common Senator John Coran and State Attorney General Ken Paxton, whom President Trump”
endorsed. And beer is glad he could have saw us as more. This race exposed a crack in the red wall of Texas that pit the party's populist movement against its establishment wing. Senator John Coran, a fixture of the establishment, was already facing a tough reelection
fight. Now, with President Trump's endorsement of controversial, Maggie Loyalists, Kim Paxton, the Coran in campaign is on life support. And here's glad to hear you saw this. Meanwhile, South Carolina Republican state lawmakers rejected President Trump's push to redrock
congressional maps and pushed out the loan democratic congressman, Jim Clyburn.
This early voting got started today for a June 9th primary. The Trump administration is proposing a new government-wide non-disclosure agreement for federal employees.
“In Pyrus Andrew issue reports, the administration says media leaks have put federal agents”
and military service 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 deliverative 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. Andrew issue and Pyrus. Ukraine's military says it hit a Russian military side in occupied Ukraine and a separate strike shut down an oil refinery in Russia.
“If here's Joanna Kikis's reports, Russia's escalating threats against Ukraine following”
its own weekend strikes. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Secretary of State Marco Rubio to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Kiev. Lavrov said the Kremlin is planning strikes on, quote, "Decision-making centers there." Rubio said he would relay the message to President Trump.
In a video addressed, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky set his country's military has used technology to halt Russian advances on the front line. It's not easy, he said. We are still actively defending it. This year, though, we have achieved better results.
Zelensky claims Ukraine's long-range drone strikes have also cut Russian oil refining capacity by 10%. And Joanna Kikis's NPR news, Kiev. The Dowsdown 207 points Nasdaq up 241. This is NPR.
United Arab Emirates trained Colombian mercenaries and deployed them to fight alongside a group at war with Sudan's army, according to a new report. And Pyrus' dual-bright reports, the mercenaries went on to commit several atrocities in Sudan, including training child soldiers. Analysis by Human Rights Watch shows how Colombian mercenaries were recruited by an Emirate
company and trained on military bases in the UAE, before being deployed to Sudan. Most of the mercenaries were retired Colombian military officers, and while in Sudan, they fought alongside the paramilitary rapid support forces or RSF, which has been at war with Sudan's army for over 3 years. The UAE has denied supporting the RSF despite mounting evidence.
Human Rights Watch says the UAE has supported other deadly groups across Africa and emitted this, and unless say this is being done, to secure minerals and to expand the UAE's influence across the region. Dual-bright MPR news lagus.
More than 1.5 million Muslims from around the world are performing the Hajj Prilgrimage
and Saudi Arabia, but this year the number of Iranians making the Pilgrimage is down to around $30,000, last year 90,000 Iranians got permits from Saudi Arabia to attend. Meanwhile the cost to attend is high, Pakistan's religious affairs minister says the three week-long package is about $3400, most Prilgrims say for decades, to be able to afford the Hajj.
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