>> Live from NPR News in Washington, on Curve of a Coleman, Texas Attorney Ge...
Paxton has defeated incumbent U.S. Senator John Kornin in the Texas GOP runoff primary.
“Paxton got President Trump's endorsement, even though Kornin noted he's voted with”
Trump almost all of the time. Houston Public Media's Andrew Schneider says Kornin still lost by double digits to Paxton. >> Kornin is in his mid-70s. He's a staunch conservative, but he represents the establishment wing of the Texas Republican party.
The party's moved considerably to the right Paxton's younger. He's long been a favorite with what is developed into the Mago wing of the party. He made the case over the course of the past year plus that Kornin's time was passed, and particularly that Kornin wasn't enough of the supporter of President Trump. >> Andrew Schneider reporting, Paxton will face Democratic State Senator James Taloreco
for the Texas Senate seat this fall.
Both candidates have already started to release negative messages about each other.
The protests continue outside of federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey inside some detainees were said to be on hunger strike. From member station WNYC, Ariette Sundrum has more.
“>> The blockade outside is to prevent detainees inside on strike from being transferred to other”
facilities. Korninna Adorno is an organizer with the New Jersey friends of Kosecha, an immigrant labor group. When people get transferred, one, we don't know where they'll be sent. They could be sent to Louisiana, they could be sent to Michigan, they could be sent to California.
When they moved them, the like system goes dark, for up to like, we've seen like up to like three days. We're like, we have no idea where they are. Activists like Adorno are holding around the clock visual and protest outside the facility while the strike continues.
The strikeers are protesting conditions inside and demanding the closure of the facility and freedom for those detained. For NPR News, I'm Ariette Sundrum in Newark. The Trump administration is proposing a new government-wide non-disclosure agreement for federal employees.
“NPR's Andrea Shew 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 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. >> Andrea Shew and PR News. >> You're listening to NPR. The U.S. military says it is conducted another deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific.
The Pentagon says one alleged drug trafficker was killed and two others survived. The Pentagon says the Coast Guard is looking for them. The U.S. has attacked dozens of similar boats and killed scores of people.
The Trump administration has never provided evidence of their links to drug trafficking.
The U.S. workers at South Korea's Samsung Electronics have approved a proposed labor deal. It would give them a bigger share of corporate profits. And B.R. Anthony Cune reports the deal of "Virt's Alluming Strike" that could have disrupted global semiconductor supply chains.
>> About 74% of some 65,000 workers voted in favor of the deal. It gives workers in the company's most profitable division, which makes memory chips, a 12% cut of annual profits. If they meet this year's profit targets, workers could get an annual bonus of around $400,000 in stocks and cash.
Less profitable divisions, making products such as TVs and smartphones will get far less. A union representing some of those workers sued but failed to stop the deal. The AI and semiconductor boom is also created a tax-win fall for South Korea's government. This is sparked a debate about how to distribute the boom's dividends across South Korean society.
Anthony Cune and P.R. News sold. >> The National Weather Service is warning it will get hot in parts of Montana and North Dakota in the next few days. Forcasters warn, temperatures could get close to 100 degrees or hotter. I'm Core of a Coleman, NPR News in Washington.
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