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(Headline USA) Texas Republicans pressed ahead with their push for election integrity Tuesday, vowing to ensure Democrats' weekend victory over their anti-vote-fraud measures would only be temporary. GOP Gov. Greg Abbott prepared to call lawmakers back for a special session to revive the voting measure that died when Democrats staged a...

(Headline USA) An increasing number of American citizens have been apprehended as they have tried to smuggle illegal drugs into the U.S. since the start of the coronavirus restrictions, an uptick that's come amid travel restrictions at the border with Mexico. For more than a year, the closure of the...

UPDATE 5/31/21 6:00 AM VIA AP: Texas Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the state House of Representatives on Sunday night to block passage of one of the strongest election integrity bills in the U.S., leaving Republicans with no choice but to abandon a midnight deadline and declare...

(Headline USA) Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday time is running short for a bipartisan deal on infrastructure, indicating that President Joe Biden will look to act without Republican support if there is no consensus when Congress returns from its Memorial Day break. "By the time that they return, which...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden's $6 trillion budget proposal promises politically freighted tax increases on the wealthy and corporations and would give domestic Cabinet departments significantly bigger budget increases than the Pentagon. But like all presidential budget plans, Biden's proposal needs the approval of lawmakers, who can change the allotments...

(Associated Press) China’s ruling Communist Party has opened a new front in its long, ambitious war to shape global public opinion: Western social media. Liu Xiaoming, who recently stepped down as China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, is one of the party’s most successful foot soldiers on this evolving online...

(Headline USA) A jury found an illegal alien farm laborer guilty of murder Friday in the abduction and killing of a University of Iowa student who vanished while out for a run in 2018. The 12-member jury unanimously found Cristhian Bahena Rivera guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of...

(Headline USA) Senate Republicans on Friday blocked creation of a panel to study the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, turning aside a politicized spectacle wanted by Democrat leaders in the guise of an "independent investigation." The so-called Jan. 6 commission is designed by Democrat leaders to serve as a form...

UPDATE 5/28/21 2:30 EDT: Idaho Gov. Brad Little, a moderate, on Friday issued an executive order repealing a 24-hour-old mask-mandate prohibition put in place while he was out of the state by the lieutenant governor, describing her actions as a tyrannical abuse of power and an “irresponsible, self-serving political stunt.” The...

(Headline USA) Americans increased their spending by 0.5% in April, a slowdown after a big gain in March that had been powered by the distribution of billions of dollars in individual stimulus checks. Friday's report also showed that inflation by a measure preferred by the Federal Reserve surged by a bigger-than-expected...

(Headline USA) President Joe Biden proposed a $6 trillion budget for next year on Friday that fails to slow spiking government debt, instead seeking tax hikes on corporations --- which ultimately hit consumers --- and on the "wealthy," to pay for ambitious infrastructure and safety-net programs. Biden has already announced major plans...

(Headline USA) Emerging from two years of relative silence, former House Speaker Paul Ryan has joined the fight against Donald Trump, urging fellow conservatives to reject the former president's divisive politics and those Republican leaders who emulate him. Ryan made his remarks during a Thursday evening address at the Ronald Reagan...