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How the Federal Settlements With Elite Universities Are Unfolding

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Uvalde School District Releases Records Related to 2022 Robb Elementary Shooting

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DC Locals Have Mixed Reactions to Trump’s Police Takeover

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Trump Places DC Police Under Federal Control, Orders National Guard to Washington

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Environmental Protection Agency Terminates Contracts With Unionized Employees

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Commerce Department Threatens to Take Ownership of Harvard Patents

by USNN World NewsAugust 9, 2025August 9, 2025

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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Suspect Dead, Officer Killed in Shooting Reported at Emory University

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Trump Announces Apple’s Additional $100 Billion US Investment Plan

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Record US Honey Bee Losses and What Mite Be Behind Them

by USNN World NewsAugust 6, 2025August 12, 2025

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Suspected Fort Stewart Shooter Identified as US Army Sergeant, Officials Say

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Violent and Property Crime Fell Sharply in 2024: FBI

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Trump sets new travel restrictions over coronavirus, considering southern border shutdown

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News President Trump authorized new travel restrictions and warnings Saturday – and said he’s even looking at closing the southern border – in ...

AOC warns Bloomberg would be ‘a worse Trump’ if elected president

By Mark Moore | New York Post Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that electing Mike Bloomberg in November would pave the way for another candidate who could be “even worse” than President Trump. The ...

Trump accuses Dems of ‘politicizing’ coronavirus, tells South Carolina rally ‘we are totally prepared’

By Alex Pappas | Fox News President Trump accused his Democratic critics of “politicizing” the coronavirus outbreak Friday as he rallied supporters in North Charleston a day before the Democratic primary ...

Chris Stirewalt: Why Super Tuesday looks like it will backfire on Democrats

By David Montanaro | Fox News The move by some states – including California and Texas – to move up their primaries to Super Tuesday appears that it’s going to backfire ...

CPAC attendees rip Democrats over reaction to coronavirus: ‘It’s their next game’

By Victor Garcia | Fox News Fox News contributor and “Hannity” 2020 correspondent Lawrence Jones spoke Friday with attendees of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference who are unhappy with Democrats ...

McCarthy predicts Democrats will lose House, says they have ‘surrendered to the socialists’

By Brooke Singman | Fox News NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy boldly predicted Friday that Democrats will lose the majority in the House of Representatives ...

Some California health workers held in isolation, quarantine after exposure to cornavirus patient, officials say

By Louis Casiano | Fox News Dozens of health workers in Solano County, Calif., are under isolation and some will be quarantined after being exposed to a ...

Pence rallies CPAC crowd for 2020 Trump reelection: ‘Freedom works. Socialism doesn’t’

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Vice President Mike Pence rallied the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday against socialism, saying “freedom always wins” as he made the case ...

Bloomberg pressures Sanders to release full medical records after doctor declares billionaire is in ‘outstanding health’

By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News Michael Bloomberg’s campaign called on his 2020 Democratic rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to release further information on his heart health, after ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Biden will win SC primary ‘by double digits,’ but Dem nomination is Bernie’s to lose

By Victor Garcia | Fox News Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., joined “The Story with Martha MacCallum” Saturday to preview Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary, which he predicted former Vice ...

Whistleblower says HHS sent workers to handle possible coronavirus patients without gear, training

By Gregg Re | Fox News The Department of Health and Human Services “improperly deployed” more than a dozen workers to two California military bases receiving Americans evacuated from coronavirus ...

5 Milwaukee shooting victims identified, suspected gunman was 17-year electrician at brewery

By Louis Casiano | Fox News Milwaukee authorities have identified the five victims who were killed by a co-worker during a shooting rampage at the Molson Coors ...