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Paxton trounces Cornyn: 5 takeaways from Texas’s primary runoffs

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) became the latest casualty of President Trump’s revenge tour on Tuesday after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) easily trounced the incumbent in the Senate GOP runoff.  Paxton is projected to garner about 64 percent support with over 95 percent of the vote reported early Wednesday, according to Decision Desk HQ The state's attorney...

Paxton-backed French ousts incumbent in Texas Railroad Commission GOP runoff

Former Tarrant County GOP chair Bo French is projected to deliver an upset and defeat incumbent Jim Wright in the GOP primary for Texas Railroad Commissioner, according to Decision Desk HQ. French, a rancher and mineral owner, was backed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and GOP donors like Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, according to Houston Public...

Michael Goodwin: Trump gave Iran a chance at peace — but the president cannot trust the mullahs

The news that President Trump has taken the unusual step of calling a full...

Gavin Newsom’s broken promises on health care — coming to a tax hike near you

A coalition of special interests will ask LA County voters to raise the sales...

LA’s shameful scrimping on fire safety

LA firefighters continue to rage against Karen Bass and City Hall, and with valid...

Hassett predicts Powell will leave Fed if he’s ‘happy’ with IG report

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Monday that he expects Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to leave the central bank’s board of governors if he is “happy” with a forthcoming internal report on the Fed’s renovations, which have been repeatedly criticized by President Trump. Powell, whose term as chair expires this month, said recently...

Congress built the vaccine firewall. Now Congress must defend it. 

Tonight, a parent will look down at her newborn and say: let’s wait. The virus will not. Neither will the bleed. 

Over 350 earthquakes recorded since Friday in part of southern California

The area is "prone to earthquake swarms," officials say.

Memorial Day travel could set record in 2026: AAA

For many, Memorial Day serves as the kickoff to the summer season, leading to millions throughout the United States traveling for weekend getaways.

Hantavirus isn’t the next pandemic, health officials say. Here’s why

The sights of PPE-clad passengers leaving the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship Sunday may prompt flashbacks to the COVID pandemic. Health officials say that isn't exactly the case.

CEO pay soared in 2025, study finds

The analysis examined compensation at 1,500 companies across 33 countries and found the average CEO earned about $8.4 million last year.

God won’t save this Supreme Court: That job belongs to all of us

The Roberts Court has become a partisan and ideological tool of the right-wing legal and political movement.

American on cruise ship tests positive for hantavirus as 17 arrive in Nebraska

One American on the cruise ship that experienced a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus, while another is experiencing mild symptoms, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Sunday night. NBC News reported that the 17 Americans who were on the ship had returned to the U.S., with a government plane...

Iran lists demands Trump dismissed, punts on nuclear talks

Iran has laid out its demands in a counteroffer to the U.S. that President Trump shot down on Sunday, while seeking to push back nuclear negotiations, according to multiple reports. Iranian state media has said its negotiators demanded war reparations, Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz and U.S. sanctions ending, the New York Times...

Spencer Pratt could upend the LA mayoral race 

Republican candidate and former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has turned what might have been a predictable race into a genuinely competitive one

Trump’s crooked ‘art of the deal’ with Big Oil  

The American people have seen several big oil scandals over the last century. We have survived Teapot Dome, the collapse of Enron, windfall profiteering during the 1970s oil crisis, Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, and more. However, Donald Trump’s deal with Big Oil is the most corrupt in our history. 

A child’s protection from grooming and abuse shouldn’t depend on geography

Predators do not operate within neat boundaries, and our laws should not assume they do.

Democrats still House favorites despite blows in Virginia, Supreme Court

In today’s issue: Democrats are still in the driver’s seat toward winning back control of the House, despite suffering a major blow in Virginia on Friday and at least three GOP-controlled Southern states scrambling to redraw their midterm maps. The Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the results of the state’s redistricting referendum from last month invalidated a new congressional map that Democrats viewed as key to countering Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting efforts. ...

I nearly died after taking abortion drugs — they don’t belong in the mail

My experience didn’t happen through the mail. There was at least some level of medical oversight. Even with that, everything went terribly wrong.

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