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Veteran Senator Bill Cassidy lost his Republican primary and the chance to seek a third term representing Louisiana.

NPR's Franco-Ordonia's reports, the outcome underscores the perils of going against President Trump.

The Senator lost his primary five years after voting to convict President Trump on impeachment

charges following the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

Louisiana voters instead chose to send Trump-backed Representative Julia Letlow and state

treasurer John Fleming to a runoff.

The defeat shows that despite Trump's low polling numbers on the

economy, the president still holds a tremendous grip over the Republican Party. The president who

reveled in the loss on social media this morning is now turning his eye toward another Republican,

he deems this loyal, Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, whose primary is on Tuesday. Trump posted that

Massey is, quote, an even bigger insult to our nation than Cassidy and must be voted out.

Franco Ordonez. NPR News.

The United Arab Emirates says a fire broke out from a drone strike at its nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE says the attack had no impact on radiation safety levels and didn't attribute it directly to Iran.

And Pira Zaya Abtrawi has more.

The United Arab Emirates says the drone struck an electricity generator outside the Butaka nuclear power plant's inner perimeter on Sunday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it was informed by the UAE that radiation levels

remain normal. It says emergency diesel generators are currently providing power to part of

the plant, the only one of its kind, in the Arabian Peninsula. The UAE says the drone came from

its western border,

where neighbor Saudi Arabia borders Yemen to the south and Iraq to the far north. In an apparent

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