Texas Democrats set plan to end walkout over Republicans’ redistricting effort
CHICAGO (AP) — Texas Democrats on Thursday moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked…
Trump will get another session from Texas to redraw congressional maps
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican leaders said Tuesday that they were prepared to end their stalemated special…
Tom Brady statue is larger than life (and only slightly less mobile)
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady’s statue weighs six tons and rises 17 feet off the ground, from…
Sheriff Tompkins faces extortion charges over cannabis stock deal
Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins faces federal extortion charges involving the purchase of an equity interest in a…
Trump orders colleges to submit data on race in admissions
WASHINGTON (AP) — Colleges will be required to submit data to prove they do not consider race in…
Texas Democrats seek donations in effort to resist Trump’s redistricting plan
After leaving Texas for Illinois to prevent a legislative vote on a Republican redistricting plan, state House Democratic…
Judge blocks reallocation of billions meant for disaster mitigation
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to…
Justice Department releases new list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions
Associated Press (AP) — The Justice Department identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary…
Titan submersible disaster was preventable, Coast Guard says
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Coast Guard’s report on the Titan submersible disaster that killed five on the…
States accuse Trump of intimidating hospitals to drop gender-affirming care
Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump’s administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care…
Disturbing trend that has been growing among children since the pandemic
Chronic absenteeism surged to unprecedented levels at schools across America during the coronavirus pandemic and remains at disturbingly high levels…
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold…