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Controversial Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged Sen. John Cornyn's reelection and won President Trump's endorsement in the bitter primary fight that cost Republicans more than $100 million.
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A federal court has put the brakes on Alabama's efforts to revert to its 2023 congressional maps for this year's elections . Why it matters: If Alabamans vote this fall under the 2023 maps, one of the state's seven House seats would likely flip from blue to red. - The decision also carries implications for Alabama's upcoming special primaries, with wheels already turning on a plan to put the former maps in effect for midterm elections. The latest: A three-judge panel on Tuesday blocked the state from using its 2023 maps and ordered it to instead use court-drawn maps that were instituted after the previous maps were struck down for intentionally diluting minority voting power. - The state is planning to appeal. Catch up quick: Earlier…
Only one athlete went faster than the existing world record at the event.
Trump turns 80 next month and was the oldest person elected U.S. president.
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Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) visited Newark immigrant detention center Delaney Hall amid reports of hunger strikes and inhumane conditions inside.
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The risk of an explosion or spill has fallen, the authorities said, but residents closest to the plant cannot yet return. Some have begun to ask who should be held accountable.
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, has been raising money and looking to unite his party for the general election.
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The showdown, manufactured by a Republican gerrymander, created one of many generational clashes consuming Democrats this cycle.
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Data: The Conference Board ; Chart: Courtenay Brown/Axios Consumer confidence soured in early May, according to the Conference Board, though the reading shows a far less bleak economic mood than its peer survey from the University of Michigan, which plumbed new lows Friday. Why it matters: Directionally, the two surveys send the same signal: Consumers are downgrading their economic views as the war-driven energy shock weighs on household budgets. - But whether consumers feel worse about the economy now than at any other point in the past half-century depends on which survey you reference. Driving the news: The Conference Board's monthly consumer confidence index fell 0.7 percentage point in May, to 93.1. But it ticked down to a level…
Mr. Paxton, a Texas Senate candidate, has led Senator John Cornyn in all but one independent poll in the Republican primary runoff.
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