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In combat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is the top vote getter in the city's primary election,
“while the votes are still being counted, Bass will move to the November General election,”
and it appears she will face the Republican newcomer and reality TV star Spencer Pratt
who currently isn't second place.
Bass spoke to her supporters early Wednesday morning. "I will tell you it's looking good so far, we got a lot more to go but so far it's looking good." California has what are so-called jungle primaries, the top two candidates, regardless of their political army, advance to the general election. In the California governor's race, Steve Hilton is the top vote getter with a little more than
half of the votes counted. Former Obama administration official, Xavier Bracera, who served as the health secretary, is in second place that appears he and Hilton will advance to that election.
“Hilton spoke to his supporters this morning.”
"It looks very much as if California's really will have the chance to vote for change in November and take out state and take out state in a new direction." The two top vote getters regardless of the party advance to the November General election to replace the term limited governor Gavin Newsom official winners have not been projected as officials count the ballots submitted by mail.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced tough questions on a range of issues from Iran to Ebola in hearings Tuesday on Capitol Hill. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports some of the senators raised doubts about U.S. strikes on the alleged drug votes close to the U.S. Democratic Senator Tim Cainz as he's received classified briefings about the targeting criteria
for attacking votes in Latin America and Cainz as he was surprised about what's not on the targeting criteria list evidence of narcotics on the vote. "They chose items that were targets that authorized the U.S. military to sink votes and kill people, but they have not used the presence of narcotics on the vote as one of the targeting criteria." Secretary Rubio says legal officers decide whether a strike meets the requirements or not
and the U.S. military has walked away from potential targets, though he wouldn't say how often. Michelle Kellerman and PR News the State Department. The Las Vegas Golden Knights have won game one of the national hockey league Stanley Cup final defeating the Carolina Hurricane's five to four in what was a wide open high scoring game.
Las Vegas rallied from a two-old deficit in the first period to win the game game two of the
series is Thursday night and rally. Meanwhile, game one of the NBA finals is tonight in San Antonio, the spurs play the New York Nix, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. It hasn't been easy for Congress to re-up America's 10-pole spy powers section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and now President Trump's new acting director of national intelligence that pick is making things even harder, NPR's Eric McDaniel reports.
Phil Pulti is used as current post to attack people Trump receives his political enemies. His new job present objective assessments of U.S. intelligence gathering to the president, so he can make informed decisions. Top Democrats are now warning that his appointment
“could imperial their party's support for a key foreign intelligence gathering law.”
House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries Bill Pulti is deeply on serious, deeply dangerous, and deeply unqualified. His supposed elevation as the acting director of national intelligence will jeopardize the effort to pass surveillance legislation that was already on life support. FISA is set to expire June 12th, Eric McDaniel, and Pierre News the Capitol. The new management and team that's in charge of CBS's 60 minutes on Tuesday night fired
its longtime correspondent and anchor Scott Pellie. The action came one day after Pellie delivered a blistering attack against those same officials criticizing their commitment to the award-winning news program, and later accusing them of political bias when it came to producing stories. Pellie also said CBS's 60 minutes had lost its DNA under the new management. During his 37 years at CBS, he's been the Chief White House correspondent, the anchor of the
CBS evening news, 20 years at 60 minutes, and he has been awarded 51 Emmys. This is NPR. Support for N. It's June, and another big week in the run-up to the midterms, primaries and half a dozen states, including California, where new congressional maps are in place, and a chaotic race for governor is wide open. We're also following gas prices and Iran. So far, talk of a p-steel,
is just talk. We'll keep you posted. Listen, every morning, up first on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
