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#1 Thomas Massie Loses to Trump-Backed Candidate in Most Expensive House Primary Ever - Zachary Leeman for Mediaite, Acyn, Tracy Beanz, Alex Jones, Dr. Simon, Sam Parker, and The Constitutionalist on X
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost his reelection bid to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who earned President Donald Trump’s endorsement amid Massie and Trump’s growing feud. The Associated Press called Massie’s race on Tuesday night as the congressman sat at approximately 46%, or 38,000 votes, compared to Gallrein’s 55%, or 46,000 votes. The race was called with approximately 74% of the vote counted for the state’s fourth district. Massie has served seven terms since 2012. Massie’s primary race will go down as the most expensive primary House race on record amid the congressman’s growing feud with President Trump. The congressman publicly broke with the president on multiple issues, including the release of files related to the case of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein...
#2 Trump-Backed Andy Barr Wins GOP Nomination for Mitch McConnell’s Senate Seat in Kentucky - Henry J. Gomez for NBC News, Newsweek, The Associated Press, NEWSMAX, Yi Li You, and Michael Heil on X
Rep. Andy Barr, riding an endorsement from President Donald Trump, has won the Republican primary in the race for retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell’s seat in Kentucky, NBC News projects. Barr, a seven-term congressman, prevailed over former state Attorney General Daniel Cameron and other, lesser-known GOP candidates. He will be a heavy general election favorite against Democratic nominee Charles Booker, who previously ran for Senate and was competing against another former Democratic Senate nominee, Amy McGrath. The state has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since it awarded Wendell Ford a fourth and final term in 1992...#3 Trump Endorses Ken Paxton Over GOP Incumbent John Cornyn in Texas Senate Primary - Emily Chang and Diana Paulsen for ABC News, Gunther Eagleman/Sarah Burns Bonugli, SeawolfEmeralds/CitizenFreePress, K. B. Eric Riddle, Matthew Roberts, and Bob Hafer on X
President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an endorsement in the Texas Senate primary runoff, backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Republican incumbent John Cornyn. Trump announced his pick in a social media post, calling Paxton "a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate." The president said Cornyn, who is seeking a fifth term, "is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough." This is absolutely absurd. A recent peer-reviewed paper titled, Beneficial Bloodsucking, argues that alpha-gal syndrome—the tick-borne condition that can make people allergic to red meat—should be treated as a form of “moral bioenhancement.” The authors (Western Michigan University professors) argue that, because they believe eating meat is morally wrong, intentionally spreading a meat allergy using CRISPR-edited ticks could make people more “virtuous” by forcing them away from mammalian meat. The paper states that the “permissibility” of their proposal depends on genetically editing lone star ticks in three ways... Residents of a suburban Georgia town are furious after they discovered a massive new data center had guzzled up 30 million gallons of water without initially paying for it, leaving members of the populace with weak water pressure during a drought. Georgians living in Annelise Park, a mansion-packed neighborhood in Fayetteville, which has a roughly 20,000 population, noticed last year that their water pressure was unusually weak, according to a Politico report. A county investigation found a nearby 6.6 million-square-foot data center project by Quality Technology Services, a Blackstone-owned developer, was to blame, according to the publication... United States President Donald Trump, his family, and his businesses have been granted immunity from any ongoing audits into their tax affairs, according to a directive by the Department of Justice. The move on Tuesday came as an addendum to Trump’s agreement a day earlier to settle a $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the leak of his tax information to media outlets between 2018 and 2020. In a one-page document, signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Justice Department said authorities would be “FOREVER BARRED and PRECLUDED” from “prosecuting or pursuing” tax claims against Trump, members of his family, and his businesses. The document, which was posted on the Justice Department’s website without any official announcement or press release, stipulates that the waiver applies to inquiries that are “currently pending or that could be pending”, including any related to tax returns filed by Trump before Monday’s settlement. Democratic lawmakers immediately blasted the move... Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing backlash after suggesting taxpayers should fund dental care for meth users, arguing many cannot rebuild their lives without teeth. Bass, who is vying in a crowded June primary for a second mayoral term, made the remark during a candidate forum last week on the city’s homelessness crisis. "How many people that you meet that are unhoused don't have teeth at all?" Bass said during an exchange. "They don't have teeth. Why? Because meth rots your teeth." Seven Chinese executives and four of the largest shipping container manufacturers were criminally charged in an antitrust case alleging they engaged in illegal price fixing during the pandemic six years ago, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday. The indictment, which was first reported by CBS News, marks the latest in a series of investigations by the Justice Department related to the COVID-19 pandemic, a topic that has long been of interest to President Trump and his allies. "We are holding these Chinese bad actors accountable for exploiting the pandemic to fill their own coffers," said Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward. He said the manufacturers "exploited the crisis and their market power to squeeze the supply chain for profit through coordinated agreements." Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the most far-reaching crackdown on popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. It comes as states confront a growing standoff with the Trump administration over how to regulate the industry, which allows people to bet on virtually anything. The new state law makes it a crime to host or advertise a prediction market, which it defines as a system that lets consumers place a wager on a future outcome, like sports, elections, live entertainment, someone's word choice and world affairs. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin detailed his plan to Newsmax on Tuesday to spend $1 billion to rid PFAS from drinking water. "This is something that is an important priority for President Trump, the Trump administration, for the MAHA commission, including [HHS] Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy [Jr.], our chairman," Zeldin said on "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE." "This started in a big way during the first Trump administration and is now continuing here through this latest Trump administration," he added...
#4 Lies, Toxins, and Engineered Ticks: The Menu No One Asked For - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The Highwire, Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, Derrick Evans, Wandervogel/TFTC, Mrs B/Ry Brooks, and Jim Weed on X
#5 Georgians Outraged After Data Center Drains 30M Gallons of Water Amid Drought Conditions - Taylor Herzlich for New York Post, Wall Street Apes, CalMatters, Simply Childish, Robert Winston, and Billy on X
#6 US President Trump, Family Granted Immunity From Pending Tax Audits - John Power for Al Jazeera, ABC News, Coinvo, WFLA News, WNBC4 Washington, and That Martini Guy ₿ on X
#7 Karen Bass Ripped After Suggesting Taxpayer-Funded Dental Care for Meth Users - Adam Pack for Fox News, @XTexasGirlX, Newsforce, Spencer Pratt/David Miller, and Joe Mkhitaryan on X
#8 U.S. Accuses Chinese Execs, Shipping Container Companies of Price Fixing During Pandemic - Sarah N. Lynch for CBS News, YesPunjab.com, NationPress, Ships & Ports, Spotlight on China, and Jason Perry on X
#9 Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets - Bobby Allyn for npr, Ferbin, Randalware, Bobby Coggins, The Coin Republic, and HuffPost on X
#10 EPA’s Zeldin to Newsmax: $1 Billion to Rid Drinking Water of PFAS - Sam Barron for Newsmax, SARGE, NAWC, Rev Transcripts, ABC 7 Amarillo, and MaximusDerringDo on X
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