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He defeated longtime incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornan, who conceded last night.
“"I've said throughout this race that I trust the voters of Texas, and they've made their decision and I must respect it."”
Cornan offered the concession after a drawn-out and heated race with Paxton. President Trump endorsed Paxton last week. The President blamed Cornan a long time Republican stalwart as insufficiently loyal to Trump himself. Paxton has fended off criminal indictments for alleged securities fraud. There have been whistleblower complaints filed against him. And Paxton was impeached by the Republican-led Texas State House for allegedly abusing his office to protect a political donor. He survived after the Texas State Senate acquitted him. Paxton says he is ready for Democratic attacks.
"Without a shadow of a doubt, I will be the Democrats number one target November." Texas will be the radical left's number one priority, but there's one thing I know about Texans. It's that we're not going to let them take it."
And Paxton's Democratic rival for the U.S. Senate seat is Texas State Senator James Taloreca. He lost no time in issuing his first negative ad.
“The most corrupt politician in America just became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate.”
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. That kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system. Today is the third anniversary of Paxton's impeachment by the Texas State House. Over the weekend, President Trump announced a deal with Iran was imminent, but then he backed off and said there was no rush. And Pierre Sanko Ardonius reports on Trump's pattern of inconsistency about talking about a deal to end the war on Iran.
It's happened over a half dozen times dating back to late March. President Trump has repeated several variations that a deal is close, that an agreement was largely negotiated, that a framework exists, and then it doesn't happen. Just take this weekend after nearly three months of war against Iran, now in a fragile ceasefire, Trump was talking about an almost finalized deal that would include reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
“He was almost taking a victory lap even thanking intermediaries for their help with the negotiations before backing off.”
This was perhaps the most emphatic he's been about an upcoming deal, but the reality is, while the President has repeatedly projected optimism,
there's yet to be anything concrete or durable toward a resolution. Franco, Ordonius, and Pierre Sanko. This is NPR. The sports car maker Ferrari has unveiled its newest model, and the company's share price promptly tanked, and Pierre's John Ruich explains why.
The new car is a sleek Fordor sedan called the Ferrari Luché, which is Italian for light. It was designed by Apple's former top designer Johnny Iv's firm love from, has a price tag of $640,000, and it's something totally new for Ferrari.
It's the company's first fully electric vehicle, so it won't have that signature engine growl.
Critics and investors were not impressed. On X, Italy's deputy prime minister and transport minister Mateo Salvini called it extremely expensive, and said it looks nothing like a Ferrari. And this is supposed to be innovation he wrote, adding he wondered what the company's late founder Enzo Ferrari would think. Ferrari's Milan listed shares skated 8.4% after the car was revealed, and its New York listed shares tumbled 5.3%.
John Ruich and PR news. Officials in southwest Washington state say a chemical tank imploded yesterday at a paper mill. It killed one person and injured nine other people. Another nine people are still missing. The chemical tank is huge, it holds hundreds of thousands of gallons of a corrosive liquid.
The cause of the implosion is not clear. Meanwhile, all evacuation orders have been lifted in a Los Angeles suburb after a potential chemical tank explosion was prevented. There were no injuries. At one point, some 50,000 people in the suburb of Garden Grove have been given evacuation orders. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.
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