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 Texas House to vote on controversial redistricting plan

(AUSTIN, Texas) -- After weeks of delays and protests from Democrats, the Texas state House is slated Wednesday to consider moving forward on the controversial redistricting plan.Republicans have put the bill for the redistricting on the agenda for when their special session convenes again ...
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Trump buys more than $100 million in bonds in office, disclosure shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has bought more than $100 million in company, state and municipal bonds since taking office in January, his disclosures showed this week.  The forms, posted online on Tuesday, show the billionaire Republican president made more than 600 financial purchases ...
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Amid redistricting protests, Texas State Capitol cleared of visitors after reported social media threat

(NEW YORK) --The Texas State Capitol was cleared of visitors Tuesday evening and closed to the public after a social media threat, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement.The disruption came amid protests in support of Democratic State Rep. Nicole Collier, ...
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Explainer-Can Trump send the National Guard to cities around the US?

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has called upon governors from several Republican states to deploy their states’ National Guard to Washington, D.C., which Trump has claimed is ridden with crime. As troops poured into D.C., Trump on Tuesday also suggested that he might send ...
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Musk quietly puts brakes on plans for new political party, WSJ says

(Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk is quietly putting the brakes on plans to start his new political party, telling allies he wants to focus on his companies, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the plans. Musk, without commenting further on ...
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Trump moves to use the levers of presidential power to help his party in the 2026 midterms

President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. Some of the steps Trump has taken to intervene in the ...
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Kilmar Abrego accuses US government of ‘vindictive prosecution’

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Kilmar Abrego, the accused gang member whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador made him a symbol of President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies, on Tuesday said criminal charges against him should be dismissed because he had been “vindictively and selectively” prosecuted. In ...
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Trump again attacks Fed chair, says Powell ‘hurting’ the housing industry

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is “hurting” the housing industry “very badly” and repeated his call for a big cut to U.S. interest rates. “Could somebody please inform Jerome “Too Late” Powell that he is hurting ...
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Trump says Smithsonian should portray America’s ‘Brightness,’ not ‘how bad Slavery was’

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed the White House is conducting a review of the Smithsonian museums and expressed frustration over their portrayal of dark parts of America's history, including slavery."The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country ...
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California Republicans sue to hold up Democratic redistricting plan

By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Four California Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking to block Governor Gavin Newsom’s , which would create five new Democratic U.S. congressional seats in his state to counter a similar move by Republicans in Texas. The Republican lawmakers argue in their ...
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Trump administration to seek federal charges against people snared in DC crackdown, sources say

By Sarah N. Lynch and Ned Parker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration this week ordered federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., to be more aggressive in pursuing criminal cases against people arrested as part of a crackdown in the nation’s capital, three people familiar with ...
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Texas Democrat sleeps in chambers after refusing GOP law enforcement escort mandate

(AUSTIN, Texas) -- A trio of Texas Democrats slept overnight in the state house instead of traveling home with a mandated law enforcement escort ordered by the Republican leadership as they continued their peaceful resistance against the state leadership and their controversial redistricting plan.State Representatives Nicole ...
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