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NASA, SpaceX Crew-10 Returns Home After Months in Space

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Celtics Re-Sign Coach Joe Mazzulla to Contract Extension Amid Historic Start to Career

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Mounting Debt Taking a Toll on Health, Nearly Half of Americans Say

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Commerce Department Threatens to Take Ownership of Harvard Patents

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Zelenskyy Rules Out Ceding Land to Russia Ahead of Trump-Putin Meeting

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit with the state Supreme Court on Aug. 8, asking the court to declare the House seats of 13 Texas Democrats vacant due to “unlawful absences.” Paxton filed the lawsuit shortly after Democrats broke a deadline set by Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows to return to the Capitol on Friday. “I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare what has been clear from the beginning: that the runaway members have officially vacated their offices in the Texas House,” Paxton said in a press release. Story continues below advertisement The lawsuit is aimed at 13 Democratic members who stated publicly they refused to return, “confirming in their own words the very grounds for this legal action,” according to the press release. Those named include the following Texas Democratic representatives: Ron Reynolds, Vikki Goodwin, Gina Hinojosa, James Talarico, Lulu Flores, Mihaela Plesa, Suleman Lalani, Chris Turner, Ana-Maria Ramos, Jessica Gonzalez, John Bucy III, Christina Morales, and Gene Wu, the Texas House Democratic Caucus chairman. Paxton said Texas law gives him the authority to represent the state in “quo warranto actions” and to appear before the Texas Supreme Court in matters of direct state interest. Related Stories Texas Governor Aims to Remove Absent Democrats With Emergency Petition to State High Court The Epoch Times Texas Holds Legislative Session After Democrat Lawmakers Depart The Epoch Times More than 50 state Democrats fled the state to derail Republican plans to redraw the state’s Congressional map before the midterm elections. “When members of the legislature disregard arrest warrants, refuse to perform their duties, and announce that they intend to prevent the legislature from exercising its constitutional responsibilities, they have, through words and conduct, demonstrated an intent to relinquish and abandon their offices,” the lawsuit states. Such legal action is rarely used. Warranto petitions are typically used to challenge a person’s right to hold a public or corporate office or to revoke a corporation’s charter. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also filed a warranto petition on Aug. 5 with the state’s high court, naming Wu as a respondent. The governor’s lawsuit alleged that House Democrats abdicated their official duties by refusing to show up for work. Story continues below advertisement The state justices gave Wu until Friday to respond. Paxton and Burrows took steps to enforce arrest warrants in other states, while the attorney general also began investigations into Powered by People and Texas Majority PAC for allegedly “operating an illegal financial influence scheme to bribe Democrats into breaking quorum.” Also, the fleeing Democrats potentially face felony charges and fines of $500 per day that must be paid from their own funds. The fight between Democrats and Republicans started when the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent Abbott a letter on July 7 raising concerns that four congressional districts in the Houston and Dallas areas were unconstitutional because of “racial gerrymandering.” Current boundaries run afoul of the Voting Rights Act by relying on racial demographics to group minority voters into “coalition districts,” where no single racial group forms a majority, according to the DOJ. Abbott added redrawing the congressional map onto the special session agenda, prompting the Democrats to purposefully break quorum and grind the legislature to a halt.

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Texas AG Files Suit With State Supreme Court to Declare Seats of 13 Absent Democrats Vacant

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Trump to Meet Putin in Alaska on Aug. 15

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Trump Gained ‘10 Times More Income’ for Average Families Than Biden, Says Economist

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Protests against coronavirus lockdown orders spread in North Carolina, Missouri: ‘My rights are essential’

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Angry demonstrators took to the streets in North Carolina and Missouri on Tuesday to voice their discontent at their states’ stay-at-home ...

Tying It All Together: China, Dr. Fauci, French Company Sanofi Pasteur, George Soros and the Gates Foundation

By Jim Hoft Links between Dr. Tony Fauci, China, French company Sanofi Pasteur, George Soros and the Gates Foundation are old and deep. The China ...

New documentary reveals Bill Clinton kept CIA from killing bin Laden

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News A new documentary reveals that the U.S. had an opportunity to kill Usama bin Laden in the 1990s after tracking his ...

Linda Tripp of Clinton-Lewinsky scandal fame dead at 70

By Ronn Blitzer, Alex Pappas | Fox News Linda Tripp, whose covert recording of conversations with Monica Lewinsky revealed an affair with then-President Bill Clinton, has died, Fox News confirmed. “Sadly, Linda ...

Governors face tough decisions as coronavirus lockdowns set to expire by May 1

By Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News Lockdown orders are set to expire by May 1 in nearly two dozen states even as new cases of the novel coronavirus continue ...

Hundreds protest coronavirus stay-at-home order in California to ‘defend constitutional rights’

By Travis Fedschun | Fox News Hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Southern California to protest the state’s stay-at-home orders to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the latest in a growing number ...

Trump: ‘Liberate’ Virginia, Michigan, and Minnesota

BY Zachary Stieber President Donald Trump called for freeing three states from allegedly excessive restrictions put into place by Democratic governors amid efforts to slow the ...

Top coronavirus model significantly lowers total estimates of US deaths in new projection

By Adam Shaw | Fox News A key coronavirus model has lowered its estimate of total U.S. deaths in its latest projection of how many will die due to ...

Coronavirus antibody testing finds Bay Area infections may be 85 times higher than reported: researchers

By Alexandria Hein | Fox News A team of researchers in California found that the number of coronaviruses cases in one county may actually be up to 85 times ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hits back at critics of her coronavirus response: ‘I believe in our freedoms and liberties’

By Talia Kaplan | Fox News Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem hit back at critics who accused her of being too lax with her coronavirus response after there was an outbreak at a processing ...

Experimental coronavirus drug remdesivir shows promise in Chicago trial, report says

By James Rogers | Fox News The experimental COVID-19 treatment remdesivir is showing promise in a Chicago clinical trial, according to the health news site STAT. STAT reported that patients in the trial ...

Elon Musk, CNN spar over ventilator story; Musk surprised network ‘still exists’

By Brian Flood | Fox News Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked CNN on Thursday, saying he’s surprised the liberal network still exists after it reported he did ...