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credit to President Trump for Tuesday's runoffed election victory.
“President Trump is a leader of our party and his endorsement in this most powerful force”
in politics. And I'm honored to have his support, and I look forward to working with him in the Senate to deliver for Texas. Paxton is currently the Texas State Attorney General, he won President Trump's endorsement last week, despite multiple scandals, including whistleblower allegations, and an impeachment
by the Texas House. He was acquitted by the State Senate. Paxton alsted four-term Senator John Corne, and the most expensive primary in U.S. Senate history. Corne and gave his concession speech, not long after polls closed Tuesday night.
He did not mention his opponent directly. But the Texas Newsroom displays, Gainey says he did mention his overall support for the party. Corne has been Texas Senator since 2002, before that he was Texas Attorney General, Tuesday his political career came to an end early in the night, as polls opened with him trailing
“Attorney General Ken Paxton by a sizable amount.”
The two were in an intense battle where Corne and had said Paxton winning the race would be bad for the Republican Party. But in his concession speech, he said he will support any Texas Republican in November.
"I've always supported the Republican ticket, and I'm tend to do so."
Paxton will now advance to the General Election, where he will face Democrat James Tolerico. I'm Blaise Gainey in Austin. "Iron is condemning the latest U.S. air strikes as a show of bad faith. The U.S. launched the strikes Monday as Iranian and Qatari negotiators were in Doha for
peace talks. The U.S. characterized the strikes in southern Iran as defensive, saying targets included missile launch sites, and boats laying mines. Iran says they were a ceasefire violation, and that it has the right to retaliate. Meanwhile, Israel pounded Lebanon to his day.
The strikes are being described as one of the heaviest days of bombings and weeks.
“Lebanon's health ministry says at least 31 people were killed as strikes came as Lebanese”
and Israeli delegates are to meet in Washington in the coming days.
Much of Europe's well-turing under a heat wave that's shattering temperature records for this time of year, Eleanor Beardsley is in Paris. "French authorities have linked seven deaths to the unprecedented scorching temperatures, much of Europe is under a heat dome originating in North Africa and trapped under a high pressure system across the European continent.
Climate scientists warn the extreme weather is a result of the effects of global warming. Europe is warming faster than the global average, partly due to ocean currents and air movements across the continent, restrictions on outdoor work were imposed in parts of Italy, and temperatures have reached 95 degrees as far north as London, Eleanor Beardsley and Peer News Paris."
And you're listening to MPR News. Several dozen protesters were back demonstrating outside an ice detention facility New Jersey Tuesday, where tempers flared over the holiday weekend. Bruce Conviser says reports of a hunger strike inside the prisons sparked a protest outside the gate.
Demonstrators, many of them, relatives of detainees, gathered outside the Laney Hole in Newark over the weekend, they were protesting conditions inside the prison. Their reports of prisoners being given rotten food and foul water, as well as a lack of medical care. New Jersey politicians, including Democratic Senator Andy Kim and Congressman Frank
Paulone, were given access to the 1,000-bed facility. Kim called the situation inside the camp shameful. He said the privately-run camp under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security should be shut down. At one point, a stand-up between protesters and ICE agents got ugly, pepper spray was
fired to disperse the crowd, Senator Kim was among those who got hit. A DHS spokesperson dismissed the protest as nothing more than a political stunt for NPR News time. Bruce Conviser. "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 in paper mill in Longview, a 30-say-one person was killed and nine others injured. Some of them severely, nine people remain on accountant for. In California, officials say the risk of a catastrophic explosion has largely passed.
A 30-say they have lifted evacuation orders for the final 16,000 people in Garden Grove, near Los Angeles. I'm Dr. Eil Smiter, this is NPR News. Every episode of its Benimineet, NPR is what's happening in culture podcast. Starts by asking three questions.
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