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WSJ Minute Briefing

Paxton Wins Texas GOP Primary After Trump Endorsement

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: The Trump administration plans to deploy U.S. public health officers to Kenya for a potential Ebola quarantine facility for Americans. And memory-chip makers SK Hynix and Micron Technology have joined the elite group of clubs valued at over $1 trillion. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.

0:05.0

It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.

0:11.3

That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.

0:17.9

Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:25.7

Here is your morning brief for Wednesday, May 27th. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:31.8

In Texas, state attorney general Ken Paxton, who was endorsed by President Trump, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn

0:39.1

in a primary runoff to clinch the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

0:43.6

Paxton will now face Democrat James Tala Rico in what's expected to be the Red State's

0:47.6

most competitive general election in years.

0:50.3

The Trump administration is scaling up its Ebola response in Africa. We exclusively report that

0:56.1

plans are underway to send U.S. public health officers to Kenya in order to staff a potential

1:01.2

quarantine facility there to treat Americans infected by or exposed to a rare strain of Ebola

1:07.5

that's currently spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

1:11.2

It's a shift from prior outbreaks in which exposed Americans were brought back to the U.S. for

1:16.2

monitoring her treatment.

1:17.9

The CDC says the risk of Ebola spreading to the U.S. public remains low.

1:23.4

And South Korea's S.K. Heinex has become the latest member of the trillion-dollar club,

1:28.3

joining the likes of Nvidia and TSMC. The memory chipmaker's shares jumped today,

1:34.1

extending a more than 3x run-up since the start of the year, as it benefits from higher memory

1:39.3

prices and tighter supplies of high-performance computing chips. S.K. Hynix is now the second South Korean company to surpass the trillion-dollar market cap threshold

1:48.5

after Samsung did so earlier this month.

1:51.9

U.S. chipmaker Micron also joined the trillion-dollar club yesterday.

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