Fencing went up Wednesday around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close most of the performing arts center for repairs. A Democratic congresswoman who is a trustee quickly sought an emergency court hearing to prevent what she called the “unlawful clos...
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Alaska's Republican-run state government on Saturday urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump's direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state's pivotal U.S. Senate race, writing that there is “no reason for this C...
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A federal judge on Saturday threw out President Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch over a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami dismissed ...
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Texas was not expected to be an epicenter of midterm elections that could reshape the final chapters of Donald Trump's second presidency. But Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico are making final weekend blitzes in a tossup U.S. Senate race that has become one measur...
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Women are reaching out from Florida, West Virginia and even Australia, asking two Texas friends questions that can be difficult to answer: How do I get out of an abusive relationship? Where can I turn for help? For Kalynn Moran and her best friend, Kasey Davis, those messages are...
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Arrod Berjis is seeking answers from the DMV and Carvana after his 2019 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG he found on Autotrader disappeared.
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Officials say the councilmember showed potential signs of intoxication, then refused to cooperate during tests.
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More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot be found on the state's voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant-rights group. It's the first outside analysis of a list that the Department of ...
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Officials say a security guard was one of multiple people who were questioned at the scene on Saturday.
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Galveston City Council Member Jason Hardcastle was arrested for driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest after a crash, police said.
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The District of Columbia and Virginia filed a federal lawsuit to block the proposed Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle, claiming the project is unlawful and poses severe traffic, environmental and airspace risks....
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Early voting for Tuesday's election ended Friday night with 1,081,010 Harris County voters already counted, the most ever for a midterm in the county.
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Dozens of people were arrested at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London on Saturday in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action, police said. London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement that 48 people had been arrested and that the majority of the arrests were...
