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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

by USNN World NewsAugust 10, 2025August 10, 2025

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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

by USNN World NewsAugust 6, 2025August 6, 2025

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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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Rudy Giuliani: Let Team Examine Voting Machines to Prove Trump Won

By Jack Phillips President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani called on counties in key election states to allow his team to examine voting machines to prove that Trump ...

Arizona County Board Vote Not to Comply With Subpoenas Suggests Something to Hide: Trump Campaign Adviser

By Zachary Stieber The vote by the board of supervisors in the largest county in Arizona not to comply with subpoenas to audit election machines and scanned ballots ...

Treasury Under Fire for Trying to Soften Trump’s Ban on Chinese Securities

By Emel Akan WASHINGTON—A conflict within the Trump administration has come to light over how to implement the president’s new executive order, which protects U.S. investors from “malign” ...

Trump Praises Navarro Report on Alleged Election Irregularities

By Mimi Nguyen Ly President Donald Trump heaped praise on a 36-page report by Peter Navarro on alleged irregularities across key battleground states in the 2020 presidential election. “Peter ...

Franklin Graham on Election Claims: Trump ‘Has a Track Record of Being Right’

By Gary Du Evangelist Franklin Graham said Saturday that he tends to believe President Donald Trump’s comments regarding the election being rigged and stolen, given that the ...

Joe Biden Appears to Outperform in Counties Using Dominion or HART Voting Machines: Data Analyst

By Allen Zhong Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden outperforms in counties that use the Dominion or HART InterCivic voting machines, according to a data analyst. “Analysis evidence suggests the ...

Hack of Federal Government Larger Than Previously Thought, Warns CISA

By Jack Phillips The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Thursday that the hacking campaign that targeted the federal government is larger than what ...

China Engaged in ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Americans’ Mobile Phones, Report Finds

By Cathy He The Chinese regime exploited vulnerabilities in the global mobile telecommunications network to conduct “mass surveillance” on Americans, according to a recent report ...

Redacted Information in Dominion Audit Report Shows Races Were Flipped: Analyst

By Zachary Stieber The analyst who led the forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems in Michigan said on Friday the information state officials pushed to redact shows ...

Flynn Says Trump Could Use ‘Military Capability’ to Re-Run Election in Battleground States

By Tom Ozimek Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said Thursday that President Donald Trump has options regarding the hotly contested presidential election, including seizing voting machines and using ...

Lin Wood Sues Georgia Over Administration of Senate Runoff Elections

By Ivan Pentchoukov Attorney Lin Wood on Dec. 18 filed a lawsuit against the Georgia secretary of state, alleging that the administration of the U.S. Senate runoff elections in ...

Courts Haven’t Decided Facts on Voter Fraud, Found Excuses to Dismiss Trump’s Cases

By Jack Phillips Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) rejected the notion that courts have “decided the facts” amid allegations of election fraud during the Nov. 3 election. “The courts ...