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How the Federal Settlements With Elite Universities Are Unfolding

by USNN World NewsAugust 12, 2025August 12, 2025

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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

by USNN World NewsAugust 6, 2025August 6, 2025

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Violent and Property Crime Fell Sharply in 2024: FBI

by USNN World NewsAugust 5, 2025August 5, 2025

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Suburban mom on why she’s backing Trump: Biden can’t even say the words ‘law and order’

By Joshua Q. Nelson | Fox News Polling shows Trump trailing Biden in key states among suburban women. A suburban woman Trump supporter appeared on Fox News Wednesday to explain ...

Media’s ‘total omission’ of accusations in new Bobulinski interview stuns critics

By Brian Flood | Fox News ‘Lapdog press’ blacks out explosive Tony Bobulinski claims as CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo skip story. ‘Mainstream liberal media has shown itself unworthy ...

Biden stays silent on Bobulinski claims about family’s business ventures

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Biden has long denied being involved in his family’s business dealings. Joe Biden and his presidential campaign are staying mum after Hunter Biden’s ...

Trump slams Biden for floating Supreme Court changes, warns he will nominate ‘radical left’ judges if elected

By Brooke Singman | Fox News Biden has not released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees. President Trump on Tuesday said that allies of his Democratic rival Joe ...

Rove breaks down Trump’s ‘path to victory’ through Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

By Yael Halon | Fox News Trump won all three states by fewer than one percentage point in 2016. The fate of President Trump’s reelection bid will ultimately come down to the three ...

Clawing back votes: 7 states allow voters to resubmit ballots

By Ronn Blitzer, Audrey Conklin | Fox News Several states have already reached more than 60% of their 2016 voter turnout. Many Americans are voting early in the 2020 presidential ...

Biden says in video he has created ‘voter fraud organization’

By Evie Fordham | Fox News Democratic nominee Joe Biden said his team has created “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics” ...

NY Post endorses Trump: ‘Make America great again, again’ and ‘tick off’ Hollywood with reelection

By Brian Flood | Fox News ‘We can put annus horribilis, 2020, behind us and make America great again, again,’ the Post wrote. The New York Post endorsed President ...

Joe Biden appears to confuse Trump with former President George W. Bush

By Tyler Olson | Fox News Biden immediately corrected himself after the minor verbal flub. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden misspoke on Sunday and appeared to begin saying the name of ...

Biden team admits he botched estimated cost of free college plan

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said that the government could provide four-year college educations for $150 billion, only for his campaign to later admit it ...

If Biden wins, he tells his Wall Street supporters he can’t wait to raise taxes

By Charlie Gasparino, Lydia Moynihan FOXBusiness Biden believes increasing taxes is a ‘moral issue’ and the best way to begin minimizing the wealth inequality in America. The polls ...

Biden grilled on ‘transition’ away from oil and gas comment in Pennsylvania TV interviews

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News Several interviews in the key battleground state focused on Biden’s debate comment. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is getting grilled in Pennsylvania ever since he said ...