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Both are being counted in six states that had primaries Tuesday in Iowa, Democratic State
“Representative Josh Turick will face Congresswoman Ashley Hinson for the U.S.”
Senate seat now held by Senator Jonny Ernst. Hinson was endorsed by President Trump." "Earning his support and endorsement in this race is not something that I take lightly. It is an honor and a responsibility that I will carry with me. He's next five months in to November.
So thank you, President Trump, for your service to our country." In New Jersey's 12th Congressional District Democrat, Dr. Adam Hummabe will face Republican Greg Mealy in the November General Election. Hummabe spoke to ABC News. "This is what people are looking for.
Someone who's unabashed will be stands up for human rights. Someone who doesn't waver on their stances and people are looking for outsiders, they're tired of the same establishment." Patts are still being counted in California for the governor's race and mayor of Los Angeles.
“The Justice Department is no longer moving forward with its controversial $1.8 billion”
or anti-weaponization fund that President Trump was seeking Democrats and several Republicans said they were against the plan. NPR Justice Correspondent Ryan Lucas reports while acting Attorney General Todd Blanc said the proposal was dead. Another part of that settlement remains in place.
Under the settlement, neither he nor his family were to receive any money from this fund. But as part of the deal, the IRS was barred from pursuing any claims or actions any probes against President Trump, his family, and companies over past tax issues. This is important. Blanc said that part of the settlement remains in place very much alive.
And at the hearing today, Democrats expressed a lot of concern about the fact that that element still remains in place. CBS has fired veteran 60 minutes correspondent Scott Pellie Monday night after his fiery remark to the staff meeting held by the program's new executive producer. It's part of CBS's editor-in-chief Barry Weiss's effort to rest control of the network's
signature program. Here's NPR's David Folk and Frick. Last week, New Editor-in-Chief Barry Weiss fired the show's top executives and forced out two correspondence.
Her pick is the new executive editor, Nick Bilton, has never worked in TV news.
On Monday, Pellie told Bilton he wasn't welcome, he wasn't qualified, and that Editor-in-Chief Weiss was murdering the program, according to three people with direct knowledge. Weiss arrived at CBS from her views and news center-right website, The Free Press. The two correspondence, whom Weiss ousted last week, have accused her of interfering with the show for ideological reasons.
On Wall Street, they markets closed higher on Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial averages up as was the S&P in the Nasdaq, from Washington, your listening to NPR news. The Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a plan supported by the Alabama Republicans to use new congressional district maps that could give Republicans an opportunity to win an additional seat in the November election.
The ruling means the 2026 midterm elections will feature six Republican-leaning districts and only one safe Democratic seat. A new report from the Colorado River expert shows that another dry winter could bring the nation's number two largest reservoirs to the brink of devastation, from member station, KJZZ, Alex Hager reports.
Lake Powell and Lake Meade are less than a third full.
In Kassel, one of the reports authors says if they get much lower water managers might have to send river water straight through to the other side of their dams and wouldn't be able to store for the future. That undermines the value of the entirety of the Colorado River reservoir system. And we don't want to get there.
Kassel called on state negotiators to urgently come up with a plan to keep more water in those reservoirs by cutting back on water use instead of just adding water from other reservoirs upstream. For NPR News, I'm Alex Hager in Phoenix. The rescheduled White House Correspondence Association dinner is now scheduled to take place
July 24th, but it will be at a different Washington DC hotel on the White House says there will be improved security. The original dinner in April was disrupted when a 31-year-old man from California got
“through security tackled by secret service agents before firing a shot that hit an agents”
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