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in California, the two leading candidates for Governor are Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Javier Bessera.
“From Member's Station, KQED, Guy Marcerati reports there are millions of ballots still left”
to count." Hilton, a former Fox News commentator, searched in the polls after an endorsement from President Donald Trump. "Hey, it's coming to California, and it's long overdue." Bessera, the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, gains support late in the
campaign.
"Like my parents, I never gave up.
Never stopped putting one foot in front of the other." Democratic investor Tom Steyer's and third behind Hilton and Bessera, front PR News, "I'm Guy Marcerati in San Francisco." In the city of Los Angeles, incumbent Democratic mayor, Karen Bass, has advanced to a runoff election, or opponent, isn't yet determined.
In a closely-watched congressional district, primary in New Jersey, Democrat Rebecca Bennett, won her race.
“She will face incumbent Republican Congressman Tom Kane Jr., its considered a swing district,”
but Kane has not been seen in public for nearly three months. His aides say he is addressing a personal medical condition. Federal investigators are examining the prediction market trades of former New York Republican Congressman George Santos, and beer's Bobby Allen reports. "Four months after George Santos had a seven-year wire fraud prison sentence commuted by President
Trump, he took to social media." Santos said he planned on attending Trump's state of the union address. What he didn't say publicly is that he was betting tens of thousands of dollars on the prediction market site Calshy that he would not attend. Before it was revealed, he did not go.
He cashed out. That's according to three sources with direct knowledge of Santos' trades, the Justice Department and the Community Futures Trading Commission are investigating.
“When reached by NPR, Santos said the investigations were news to him.”
He said, "I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no, when asked if he has an account on Calshy." Bobby Allen and Pure News Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. won't admit a thousand Afghan refugees stranded in Qatar, and beer's cool Lawrence reports and their families of Afghans who help U.S. troops during the war. Had a hearing Delaware Senator Chris Kuhn's asked Secretary Rubio to help the refugees who
have been stuck at a camp in Qatar for more than a year. Kuhn said there are 400 children and 150 immediate family members of active duty U.S. troops. "Can you commit to working with me and others in this body to support the relocation of these vetted individuals to the United States, especially those who are family members of currently serving U.S. soldiers? "Yeah, I can't, first of all, as you know, we're under an executive order now, so we can't in many Afghans at this point into the country."
The Trump administration has frozen visas that were promised to Afghans who aided the U.S. military. The president has offered refugee status almost exclusively to white South Africans. Quill Lawrence and PR News. "This is NPR." The Pentagon says the U.S. military fired a missile at a ship in the Persian Gulf.
This was to stop it from reaching Iran's main oil terminal. Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Kuwait and Bahrain last night and today, Kuwait says its main airport was also attacked by drones and several people were wounded. CBS has fired veteran 60 minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that came after he gave fiery remarks during a staff meeting held by the programs new executive producer. And Piers David Folkanflick reports. "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, Pelley 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 hosted last week have accused her of interfering with the show for ideological reasons. In a statement shared with NPR, Pelley alleged new management sought to inject falsehoods biased and unverified claims into his reports.
He said he fended off those efforts. With Anderson Cooper's departure, 60 minutes is now down from seven correspondence to just three. David Folkanflick and PR News. Officials in New York City are warning that getting into the city's sewer system is both dangerous and illegal. A handful of recent videos show a small group of people pulling up manhole covers and disappearing into the sewers.
Police are investigating but officials warn there are gas and power lines down there too. This is NPR. 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 peace deal is just talk. We'll keep you posted.
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