Texas judge temporarily blocks law requiring ten commandments in schools

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is calling a federal judge’s order a “win for religious freedom” after Judge Orlando L. Garcia issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain Texas ...

A new virus variant and lagging vaccinations may mean the US is in for a severe flu season

The United States may be heading into its second severe flu season in a row, driven by a mutated strain called subclade K ...

A Dallas dad came to terms with his imminent deportation. Then an 11th-hour court order gave hope to see his family again

On Saturday evening, Samantha Surovtsev squinted at her phone, blinking through tears as she rushed to order a set of Eastern European power adapters. Despite the 80-degree North Texas heat, she then ...

Senate awaiting Epstein files bill to send to Trump to sign

The bill to release the Epstein files is now on the brink of becoming law, after every single Senate and House member but one agree to send it to the president to sign.

Brian Walshe pleads guilty to lesser charges related to death of his wife as murder trial begins

A Massachusetts man about to be tried for the murder and dismemberment of his wife pleaded guilty to lesser charges on ...
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Jamal Khashoggi, and Trump’s many flippant comments on human rights

President Donald Trump’s remarks about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and defense of the Saudi crown prince are just the latest of his remarkable comments on human rights and alleged human rights abusers.

‘We have power together’: For Epstein survivors, a day of emotion and triumph

The scrum outside of the Cannon office building early Tuesday morning slowly grew in size, eventually ballooning to several dozen women. Every time someone new arrived, there was an eruption of hugs ...

Clinging to trees, screaming for help: Lawsuits paint heartbreaking picture of girls’ last moments at Camp Mystic

Weeks before 8-year-old Eloise “Lulu” Peck was carried off by the violent Texas floods that swallowed Camp Mystic in a surge of darkness and debris, she had suddenly begun to fear the forces that ...

Clay Higgins was the only Republican to vote against the Epstein files release. Here’s what he said

GOP Rep. Clay Higgins, the only lawmaker to vote against the bipartisan bill to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, defended his opposition on Tuesday, saying the legislation was written ...

House votes to release Epstein files, sending bill to Senate

The House on Tuesday took the significant step of ordering President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to publicly release all of its investigative files into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey ...

Trump administration lends $1 billion to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it has loaned Constellation Energy Corp CEG.O $1 billion to restart its nuclear reactor at a Pennsylvania plant formerly known as Three Mile Island.

Why it feels like your favorite websites keep going down

Cloudflare experienced a disruption on Tuesday that temporarily impacted a swath of online services – from Spotify to ChatGPT and even President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform – marking the ...