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He defeated longtime Texas Senator John Cornean for the GOP nomination. Paxton said he had the strongest of supporters.
“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. Meanwhile, Paxton has successfully pushed back on criminal indictments allegations by whistleblowers, and he was impeached by the Texas State House on allegations of abusing his office to protect a political donor. The Texas State Senate acquitted him. Paxton will face Democrat James Taloreco in the fall's General Election. The Justice Department has been purging government websites of information about prosecutions related to the January 6th Capitol riot.
And Piers Tom Drysbach reports the Trump administration deleted information about violent assaults of police on that day. Late last week, the Justice Department said it was proud to purge its website of what it called partisan propaganda.
In practice, that meant deleting news releases about January 6th prosecutions, including cases where rioters were convicted
of carrying guns and assaulting police with pepper spray, tasers, and stolen police batons. It was just the latest move by the Trump administration to rewrite the history of January 6th, following mass partings of the rioters
“and the announcement of a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund.”
And Trump officials are not ruling out the possibility that even violent January 6th defendants may receive taxpayer money. Tom Drysbach and PR News officials in Washington State say there's been a dangerous industrial leak at a paper mill in the southwestern part of the state. One person was killed, nine others are injured, Oregon Public Broadcasting's Eric Newman reports another nine people are unaccounted for. Emergency vehicles were coming and going from a paper facility for the company Napan Dina Wave on Tuesday morning.
According to officials, the accident involved the rupture of a tank of a chemical compound called white liquor.
That's involved in the paper making process.
Mike Gorsuch is the city of Longview Fire Battalion Chief. The incident is stable, but it is in recovery phase. Recovery efforts remain underway at the facility. Hasners, materials, personnel, and fire crews continue working closely with facility staff to secure the area and to support the ongoing operations.
“Officials did not provide additional details about the victims and they said it's too early to know the specific cause of the accident.”
Friends, here news, I'm Eric Newman in Longview, Washington. Meanwhile, all evacuation orders have been lifted in a Los Angeles suburb after a potential chemical tank explosion was prevented. There were no injuries there. This is NPR. Iran says the U.S. military attacks this week are a show of bad faith.
The U.S. as it took defensive actions by striking Iranian missile launch sights and boats laying mines. This came as Iranian representatives were in Qatar to discuss a potential agreement with the U.S. About the war. The Israeli military is dismissing a former chief prosecutor. This is over a controversy involving the alleged rape of a detainee from Gaza.
The soldiers were reinstated to the military. Empires the annual eastern reports. The case made headlines in 2024. When Israeli TV broadcast footage of Israeli soldiers leading away a Palestinian detainee, then holding up shields hiding their actions as they allegedly inserted an object into his rectum causing injury.
Five soldiers were indicted causing demonstrations in support of the soldiers. The military's top prosecutor admitted to leaking the security camera footage and she was suspended from her post. Now, the Israeli military chief is officially discharging her from the army. Israel's defense minister welcomed her dismissal, saying she harmed the soldier's reputation and deserves many years in prison.
Charges were dropped against the soldiers. They were allowed to return to military service. Daniel Estrin and PR News Tel Aviv. Officials in Sydney, Australia, say nearly 90 twinkling show drones crashed into the city's famous Harbor Monday, night during a festival display.
No one was hurt. The drone company blamed radio interference for the mishab. Australian authorities are now trying to fish the drones out of the Sydney Harbor. Uncore of a Coleman NPR News in Washington. On Consider This NPR's afternoon news podcast, we cover everything from politics to the economy to the world.
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