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...
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...
President Trump will meet with Israeli officials Wednesday at the White House to discuss postwar plans for the Gaza Strip, as negotiations with Hamas on securing a ceasefire have stalled and Israel pushes forward with an expanded military operation. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, said on Fox News Tuesday night that Trump...
LIVE Video feed from The Associated Press Local, state and federal authorities responded Wednesday to an active shooter at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, officials said, with investigators reporting 20 victims. “I’ve been briefed on a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School and will continue to provide updates as we get more information. The BCA and State Patrol...
LIVE video from The Associated Press above — Click here to read more about the shooting Authorities are reporting 20 victims in the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A man dressed in all black and armed with a rifle was reported at the scene. Authorities say the shooter has now been “contained” and...
Concerns about an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble across the U.S. technology sector are simmering ahead of the second-quarter earnings report from Nvidia, to be released after financial markets close on Wednesday. The maker of processors for data centers and server farms is seen as a bellwether for the AI subsector of the tech industry, which...
Political leaders like Trump and Kennedy have a responsibility to condemn all acts of violence, particularly when it threatens the lives and safety of public health workers.
The Danish foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned the top U.S. diplomat positioned in the country over reports that at least three individuals connected to President Trump sought to carry out a covert influence campaign in Greenland. Trump has repeatedly said that he’s interested in acquiring Greenland, though Denmark has pushed back on the idea of...
Related video: Trump signs executive order to require more college admissions data When we wrote recently on student self-censorship, professors from state flagships to the Ivy League wrote to thank us for saying what they could not. They confided their private disagreement with the progressive orthodoxies that now dominate American campuses yet admitted that they...
Related video: Maryland Rep. Glenn Ivey On Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Deportation Threat, Potential Redistricting | SUNRISE Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported but later returned to the U.S., is gearing up for a new phase in his battle with the Trump administration, now staving off efforts to deport him to Uganda. An evidentiary hearing...
President Trump's steep tariffs on India as a penalty for buying Russian oil took effect on Wednesday, bringing the import tax imposed on the trading partner to 50 percent. Trump said he would hit India with a 25 percent penalty for the oil purchases that he argued are helping fuel Moscow’s war efforts in Ukraine, on top of a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) warned this week that if President Trump and his GOP allies expand their gerrymandering efforts beyond Texas, Democrats will respond in kind. Democratic legislators in California have already advanced new House maps designed to nullify the GOP’s new advantage in Texas, where Republicans, at Trump’s request, redrew their lines...
President Trump said that he plans to look into NBC’s decision to extend "Late Night" host Seth Meyers’ contract, slamming the comedian as a “dope.” “There is a sick rumor going around that Fake News NBC extended the contract of one of the least talented Late Night television hosts out there, Seth Meyers,” Trump wrote...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has put forward a peace proposal to end the war that involves the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, an offer that Ukraine is unlikely to accept, according to President Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff. “The Russians have put a peace proposal on the table. It involves Donetsk. It may not be,...
