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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

by USNN World NewsAugust 8, 2025August 8, 2025

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Hard to Believe? For the Miami Marlins, the Wild Card Is Within Reach

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Suspect Dead, Officer Killed in Shooting Reported at Emory University

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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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Business

FAA Plans to Hire Nearly 9,000 Air Traffic Controllers by 2028 Amid Nationwide Shortage

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US Households Owed an Average of $152,653 at the End of Q2 2025: Report

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Israel Plans Full Military Control of Gaza, Netanyahu Says

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Trump takes on ‘radical left’ in defiant and dramatic State of the Union address; Pelosi rips up speech

By Gregg Re | Fox News President Trump went on the offensive against socialism and left-wing policies during his third State of the Union address to Congress Tuesday ...

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union Adress on Tuesday night to both chambers of Congress in Washington.

By Jack Phillips The event started at 9 p.m. ET, where the president touted the U.S. economic recovery in a key moment ahead of the 2020 ...

Fox News outdraws liberal networks CNN, MSNBC during Iowa caucuses

By Brian Flood | Fox News Fox News averaged 4.3 million viewers during primetime on Monday night to dominate cable news during coverage of the bungled Iowa caucuses. Fox’s coverage, co-anchored ...

Rush Limbaugh to attend State of the Union address, receive Presidential Medal of Freedom soon, source says

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Trump’s job approval rating rises to 49 percent amid impeachment, highest since taking office, Gallup says

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News New polling by Gallup reveals that President Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time high, as he prepares to deliver his third State of ...

Iowa Dem party blames caucus fiasco on ‘coding issue,’ vows to release results ‘as soon as possible’

By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News DES MOINES, Iowa – The morning after a technical meltdown delayed the reporting of the Iowa caucus results – causing chaos in the ...

Liberal students reflexively reject Trump quotes, even though they’re from Democrats

By Julia Musto | Fox News Cabot Phillips: College students think 2020 Dem comments came from Trump Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Cabot Phillips spoke with ‘Fox & Friends’ about ...

App used in Iowa Democratic caucus fiasco linked to ex-Clinton campaign staffers

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Iowa caucuses a wide-open race, with voting underway in pivotal contest

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Iowa caucuses are officially underway, and a Fox News Voter Analysis shows a wide-open race, with five candidates competing for a share ...

Rush Limbaugh announces he has ‘advanced lung cancer’

By Brian Flood | Fox News Talk radio king Rush Limbaugh stunned his 20-million member audience Monday with the announcement he’s been diagnosed with “advanced lung cancer.” The 69-year-old conservative ...

Kellyanne Conway unloads on 2020 Dems in Iowa: ‘Unimpressive, unremarkable, underwhelming’

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Conway on socialism, ‘underwhelming’ Dem candidates and the left’s biggest ‘joke’. EXCLUSIVE: Kellyanne Conway unloaded on the 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls on the eve of ...

Trump, in Super Bowl interview with Sean Hannity, predicts fall of Pelosi: ‘Radical left is gonna take over’

By Gregg Re | Fox News In an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity during the Super Bowl LIV pregame show, President Trump confirmed that the State of ...