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As Texas waits on President Donald Trump’s promised endorsement, Sen. John Cornyn isn’t holding back on his runoff opponent in the Republican primary. His campaign is releasing a new video Thursday with a litany of ethical and personal accusations against state Attorney General Ken Paxton. It’s an initial salvo in a second round of campaigning that could be even more bitter and expensive than the first. The video revisits issues like Paxton’s impeachment trial on corruption charges, which ended in an acquittal but exposed an extramarital affair, and a state fraud indictment for securities fraud, which Paxton resolved with a…

Beijing kicked off its top annual political gathering, pledging to further insulate its economy from Trump’s tariffs and accelerate efforts to supercharge its military.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died. Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.On March 7, 1965, the beating of future congressman John Lewis and voting rights marchers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge led the evening news, shocking the nation’s conscience and pushing Congress to act. But two years before “Bloody Sunday,” it was LaFayette who quietly set the stage for Selma and…

More than three dozen individuals from across the music industry are scheduled to speak at the third annual Music Sustainability Summit happening in Los Angeles on April 14. Announced Thursday (March 5), the speaker roster includes Lindsay Arell of Legends Global, Maggie Baird of Support+Feed, Zoe Berman of Sound Future, Kelly Brennan-Kleyn of KBK Management, Jamal Chalabi of Backlash Productions, Mary Conde of Another Planet, Erik Distler of AEG, Kristen Fulmer of Oak View Group, Adam Gardner of Reverb and Guster, Lara Seaver of Reverb, Cheryl Liguori of Z2 Entertainment, Lesley Olenik of Live Nation, Scott Paul of Taylor Guitars,…

Delaney Gibb didn’t put up a career high in points against Utah this time, but she didn’t have to.The first-team All-Big 12 guard instead led a second-half BYU rally during the second round of the Big 12 women’s basketball tournament, as the Cougars beat their rivals 70-52 on Thursday afternoon at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.AdvertisementAfter Utah went into halftime up 36-27 on the heels of a 17-2 run and still maintained a seven-point lead with three and a half minutes left in the third quarter, Gibb and the Cougars turned up the heat.BYU ended up forcing Utah into 19…

A package of child safety bills is headed to the House floor following an hours-long session that left Democrats and Republicans divided. On Thursday, lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted to advance the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act; Sammy’s Law; and the App Store Accountability Act, which would require app stores to introduce age-gating.Several Democrats opposed the law, arguing it would prevent states from strengthening online protections for young users. KOSA has been introduced in several forms over the past few years, but has repeatedly failed to pass.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said the KIDS…

It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to war with Iran. While the tally in the House, 212-219, was expected to be tight, the outcome provided a clarifying snapshot of political support for, and opposition to, the U.S.-Israel military operation and Trump’s rationale for bypassing Congress, which alone has the power to declare war. At the Capitol, the conflict has quickly carried echoes…

President Donald Trump said Thursday he is replacing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, a move that came amid mounting bipartisan criticism of her stewardship of the administration’s mass deportation agenda and efforts to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Winston Churchill coined the phrase “special relationship” 80 years ago. Now, his grandson says Trump is damaging U.S.-U.K. ties, and diplomats warn a divorce may be in the works.

President Trump urged pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol in a White House announcement in September 2025. Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Trump told pregnant women in September 2025 to avoid Tylenol because taking it would increase their babies’ risk of autism: “Taking Tylenol is not good — I’ll say it: It’s not good.” Doctors and scientists quickly said the data didn’t support the president’s claim, but emergency room orders for Tylenol, or acetaminophen, for pregnant patients went down 10% in the months that followed, according to a new study…