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Paxton is one of the state's Republican runoff primary for the U.S. Senate.
“He defeated longtime Senator John Coran, after Paxton got President Trump's endorsement.”
Paxton will face Democrat James Taloreco in the general election this fall. From the Texas Newsroom Blazegani reports, Taloreco has already released negative messages about Paxton. But minutes after the winner was clear, Taloreco's campaigns sent an email out featuring a new video where he highlights Paxton's impeachment. Three years ago, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors at the expense of the people.
Paxton also quickly came out with his own bar, calling Taloreco the most well-funded radical Democrat in America, calling for this potential matchup had Taloreco ahead by one point, something that of true would make history as no Democrat has won a Texas State race in three decades. "I'm Blazegani in Austin." The South Carolina State Senate has rejected President Trump's effort to redraw congressional districts in that state ahead of midterm elections.
“Gavin Jackson of South Carolina Public Radio says the state Senate voted as South Carolinians started casting early votes for their primary election.”
This all came to a head yesterday, that was the first day of early voting for the primaries, and Democrats were urging people to go to the polls.
And more than 30,000 votes have been cast already as lawmakers were meeting, so some of them were even getting updates during that debate. And around that time lawmakers faced a couple of procedural votes in the Senate to get the redistricting bill to a vote and it lost. Gavin Jackson reporting, a new map could have flipped the only South Carolina U.S. House seat held by a Democrat. It's held by the veteran civil rights activist, Congressman James Clyburn. Israeli military forces have pushed further into Lebanon.
The Lebanese health ministry says Israel has launched airstrikes that have killed at least 31 people over the last two days, and B.R.s. Jean-Arap reports from Beirut. Israel launched its most intense airstrikes in weeks despite a U.S. brokerage ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to crush his bola and said Israeli forces were capturing and controlling areas in Lebanon.
Lebanese health authorities said the dead included two children and three women in attacks on a village in southern Lebanon.
“Iran backed his bola said it targeted Israeli forces and tanks advancing in the south.”
Iran has insisted on an end to the Warren Lebanon as part of any peace agreement with the U.S. Jane Arath and Pyrenees Beirut, the Israeli strikes come as there is little news of movement in the ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. President Trump earlier trumpeted a deal to end the war but he and the White House have since lowered expectations. You're listening to NPR. Consumer confidence dipped this month according to the business think tank the conference board.
Consumers are paying more for gas and food as the Warren Iran remains unresolved. The group says some consumers are still making plans for big ticket purchases such as cars. Officials in southwest Washington state say a chemical tank has imploded at a paper mill killing one person and injuring nine people. Another nine people are still missing. The tank is huge at holds hundreds of thousands of gallons of a corrosive liquid. The cause of the implosion in Washington state is not clear.
The American Cancer Society updated its screening recommendations for colorectal cancel one of the most preventable yet lethal diseases. And pierced Yuki Naguchi has more. The Cancer Society, along with the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, already recommends adults with no family history of colon cancer to begin getting colonoscopy screenings at age 45. But people are getting diagnosed with a disease at earlier ages, often at advanced stages.
It's now the top cancer killer among those under age 50. Yet colorectal cancers are slow growing and highly treatable if caught early. So the American Cancer Society is changing its guideline to add a blood test screening. Technologies that use chemical or genetic markers to detect cancers are improving the ability to identify and treat the disease generally.
Yuki Naguchi and piernews. And I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News, from Washington. Brazil used to have one of the fastest growing economies in the world. People called it the country of the future. There are songs.
O Brasil, El País, Dofutur, 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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