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Hillary Clinton’s IT staffer at the State Department, Bryan Pagliano, still refuses to testify before Congress regarding her private email server even though he’s been granted immunity from criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice.
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Utah Governor Gary Herbert failed to win the Republican Party nomination for re-election during yesterday’s state convention. Herbert signed Utah up for Common Core, and many voters are angry about it. Jonathan Johnson won 55% of the vote for governor, which wasn’t enough to win the nomination outright; Herbert and Johnson will face off in a June 28 primary election.
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Ted Cruz won 65 of the 94 delegates to the Republican National Convention who were up for election yesterday across Maine, Minnesota, South Carolina, and Utah. If Cruz can deny Donald Trump a first round victory at the convention, he stands a good chance of winning the nomination in the second and any subsequent rounds.
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Norbert Hofer of the right wing Freedom Party won the first round of Austria’s presidential elections. He’ll face a member of the Austrian Green Party who’s running as an independent, Alexander Van der Bellen, in the next round. The presidential candidates who are members of Austria’s current center-left governing coalition were all shut out, which sets the stage for a huge shift in Austrian politics.
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Kurdish and Shiite Turkmen forces fought in northern Iraq again. The two groups are nominally allies against ISIS, but occasionally turn their guns on each other.
