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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Democratic voters in Texas have handed state representative James Tallarico a victory. According to an Associated Press race call, Tallarico won Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Here he is speaking to supporters last night before he was declared the winner over Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
We launched this underdog campaign six months ago in my hometown of Round Rock, Texas. And since then... And since then, tens of thousands of Texans have shown up to rally with us in every corner of the state, from Beaumont to El Paso, from Amarillo to Brownsville and everywhere in between.
Tallarico was declared the winner after confusion in Dallas and Williamson counties over new precinct rules. Tallarico's Republican opponent this November has yet to be decided. Incumbent Senator John Cornyn is heading to a runoff this May against State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says U.S. embassies are under attack after an Iranian drone struck near the U.S.
consulate in Dubai and two Iranian drones caused a fire and damage at the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia. NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports.
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Chapter 2: What recent political victory occurred in Texas?
In between meetings on Capitol Hill, Secretary Rubio offered a brief update about the incident in Dubai.
The drone unfortunately struck a parking lot adjacent to the chancellery building and then set off a fire in that place. All personnel are accounted for. As you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this incident.
at least in a few embassies. Since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran, the State Department has evacuated non-essential personnel from many more embassies and consulates and is now organizing evacuation flights for private Americans. Rubio is urging Americans to call a hotline if they need help. Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
Senate committee today will vote on whether to advance President Trump's controversial nominee to be the nation's next public lands chief. NPR's Kirk Sigler reports a former New Mexico congressman, Steve Pierce, once called for selling the public lands he'd potentially be managing.
The former owner of an oil field services company, 78-year-old Steve Pierce, is a Trump loyalist who pushed conspiracy theories that there was widespread fraud in New Mexico in the 2020 election. The main flashpoint over today's committee vote to lead the Bureau of Land Management rests on calls he once made as a congressman to sell off federal public lands to raise revenue.
That's widely unpopular in the West, including in his home state where Becky Corrin is a city councilor in Las Cruces. He really looks at public lands in particular as places that should be bringing in more profit for corporations. In a hearing last week, Pierce told senators he had no plans to push for selling public lands. That's the purview of Congress.
You're listening to NPR News. At the hampered nuclear cleanup site in southeast Washington state, a federal contractor has agreed to pay more than $3 million to settle fraud allegations. Northwest Public Broadcasting's Anna King has more.
The U.S. Department of Justice says that a federal contractor charged for time that workers were idle. They accused Hanford Mission Integration Solutions of knowing that those charges were wrong. It all came out from a whistleblower. He claimed that Hanford's fire control systems were not being maintained by his employer. Richard Condit is with the whistleblower's law firm.
He says the company's plans for workers were mismanaged.
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