U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela’s resignation announcement sparks a sudden special-election scramble in hotly contested South Texas

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Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are poised to vote against Ketanji Brown Jackson

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January 6 committee has text messages between Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows

These text messages, according to sources, took place between early November 2020 and mid-January 2021. Thomas…

4 takeaways from Biden’s day of emergency summits on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Leaders conferred mostly in private, limiting the number of people allowed in their meeting rooms to…

Federal judge says Waller County voting process did not discriminate against Black college students

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U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela will resign early from Congress

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Western leaders begin crucial day of summits on Russia’s war in Ukraine with refugee and sanctions announcements

US President Joe Biden announced new punishment directed at members of Russia’s parliament and unveiled a…

Of the 115 Supreme Court justices in US history, all but 7 have been White men

Of those, 108 have been White men. Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, would…

How young Black women see Jackson’s nomination

“My dreams have just gotten so much bigger, it seems like overnight,” Williams told CNN in…

Abortion funds bring new legal challenges to overturn Texas ban

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