News Wrap: Trump reveals list of prospective Supreme Court picks

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• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Good evening. I'm Judy Woodruff.

  On the "NewsHour" tonight:

  THOMAS PEREZ, Secretary of Labor: If you work extra, you should be paid extra, and middle-class jobs should pay a middle-class wage.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  We talk with the secretary of labor, Tom Perez, about the Obama administration's ambitious overtime pay ruling, which aims to help millions of workers earn more money.

• Then:

  Bernie Sanders takes Oregon, while Hillary Clinton claims victory in Kentucky with less than a 1 percent winning margin.

• Also ahead:

  an update on the chaos in Libya, as the U.S. weighs arming the fledgling government.

  And 36 years after Washington's Mount St. Helens erupted and turned a forest into rubble, scientists are watching how an ecosystem can grow from nothing.

• JOHN BISHOP, Washington State University-Vancouver:

  Anything biological that was remaining after the landslide would've been completely vaporized. It was just a barren landscape, gray and pumice-colored.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour."

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• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  In the presidential campaign, Republican Donald Trump released a list of potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court if he's elected president. He named 11 federal and state judges, eight men and three women, all of them white. In a statement, Trump said the list is — quote — "based on constitutional principles with input from highly respected conservatives and Republican Party leadership."

  The country's top intelligence official warns that foreign hackers are spying on presidential candidates. James Clapper, the national intelligence director, says there've been signs of cyber-attacks on the campaigns, as there were in 2008 and 2012. His office said the motives range from philosophical differences to espionage.

  There is word from Nigeria that the first of the long-missing Chibok girls has been found. The military says she was rescued yesterday in a remote forest with a baby. More than 200 girls were abducted by Boko Haram militants just over two years ago. None has been seen since, until now. The rescued girl says that a few have died, but most are still captive.

  To Asia now and in Sri Lanka. Rescuers used sticks and even bare hands today to dig for victims and survivors after mountains of mud buried their homes. More than 220 families were missing in a hard-hit district located in the central part of the island nation.

  Olivia Kinsley of Independent Television News reports.

• OLIVIA KINSLEY:

  Another life claimed by these massive mudslides caused by torrential rain that has been hammering Sri Lanka for days. Hundreds of thousands of people have had to abandon their homes. Entire villages have been buried. Bodies are being pulled from the mud. Those still alive, and still stranded, are being rescued one by one.

• MAJ. GEN. SUDANTHA RANASINGHE, Sri Lanka:

  We are — developed, established five relief centers, and in the five relief centers, now there are over 1,300 people, displaced people who are being sheltered. And the government is looking after them.

• OLIVIA KINSLEY:

  With more rain on the way, they're putting out sandbags in the towns, but for low-lying villages, the water and the devastation has been unstoppable. With rescuers struggling to reach those in some of the worst affected areas, the death toll will surely continue to rise.

• JUDY WOODRUFF:

  Search parties found 17 bodies before they suspended operations for the night.

  China today played down its ongoing military exercises along its coast facing Taiwan. The defense ministry said the drills are not aimed at any specific target. They began just days before Taiwan inaugurates a new president, who leans toward independence from China. Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and has never ruled out using force to bring it back into the fold.

  The Chinese also condemned a U.S. move to slap duties of more than 500 percent on imported flat steel. It is used in car bodies and appliances, and China has a glut of it. The U.S. says Beijing is dumping the steel and hurting American firms. And, on Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average lost three points to close at 17526. The Nasdaq rose 23, and the S&P 500 added a fraction.

  Still to come on the "NewsHour": millions more Americans eligible for overtime under new labor standards; documented atrocities in an ISIS stronghold in Libya; billions of dollars later, why VA wait times are actually getting worse; and much more.

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