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President Trump's record of ousting those he sees as disloyal continued apace with Senator John Cornyn's defeat. Whether his relationship with Senate Republicans can be repaired is another question.
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With Ken Paxton defeating John Cornyn in Texas' Republican runoff for the Senate, The New York Times's national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why Democrats may now see their best chance in years to flip the seat.
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Representative Mike Flood of Nebraska is still meeting with constituents long after most G.O.P. members of Congress have concluded it is too politically dangerous to do so.
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Paxton's victory for the Republican nomination and a big shift among Hispanic voters have put a Senate seat within reach.
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Few politicians have garnered as much scandal in Texas as Paxton, but he has ignited the MAGA base, who see him as a fighter.
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Many Democrats and some Republicans said the scandal-plagued Ken Paxton's victory could turn Texas into a battleground state that will determine Senate control.
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Republican voters made a familiar bet, that Texas is conservative enough that any Republican, even the most conservative, will beat a Democrat.
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Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general endorsed by President Trump, defeated John Cornyn, a four-term Republican senator, in a runoff. The race's results reflected Trump's influence over the party.
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"I could hear screaming the whole time." Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts of violence, abuse and torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers. "The process that they have there in the jail was designed to break you as a human," says Arafat, a Palestinian American activist born in Gaza who has taken part in multiple missions attempting to break Israel's long-standing siege. Over 100 members of his family have been killed in Gaza since October 7. While incarcerated, the activists were visited by Israel's minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was recently banned from France after publicly ridiculing flotilla members. "They call us provocateurs, or they say we're terrorists … and yet, whenever Ben-Gvir shows up to these things, he's the one provoking us," says Colston, a journalist who was previously detained by Israel while sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla last year.
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