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For their walkout, Texas Democrats get national attention — and partisan retribution at home
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The Mysterious Shortwave Radio Station Stoking US-Russia Nuclear Fears
Since early this year, RIA-Novosti has published roughly one story per week on UVB-76, suggesting its coded messages are related to missile strikes on...
A Crypto Micronation Is Making Friends at the White House
When I visited the Free Republic of Liberland in April 2023, on its eighth anniversary, there was little to indicate that the tiny proto-nation—which...
Back home in Maryland, Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation again as he reports to ICE office
BALTIMORE – Kilmar Abrego Garcia was expected Monday to report to U.S. immigration officials in Maryland as the Trump administration says it intends to...
‘No magic fixes’ for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising struggles
MINNEAPOLIS – Ken Martin is in the fight of his life.The low-profile political operative from Minnesota, just six months on the job as chairman...
Trump expands cities targeted for possible military deployment to Baltimore in a spat with governor
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand his military deployments to more Democratic-led cities, responding to an offer by Maryland's governor...
Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out
NEW YORK – A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall,...
Trump says he’ll be at Ryder Cup and he thinks captain Keegan Bradley should play
ATLANTA – President Donald Trump says he will be at the opening round of the high-charged Ryder Cup next month in New York, and...
Texas Legislature sends Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan to Gov. Abbott’s desk | Houston Public Media
The Texas Senate gave final approval early Saturday to House Bill 4, the controversial redistricting bill that shifts the state’s congressional districts in Republican’s...
Fresh off Texas Senate’s approval, new congressional map is target of lawsuit
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