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Texas State Capitol in Austin. (CrackerClips/Getty Images) A top negotiator behind a Texas voting law backed by Republicans claimed that the text of the bill limited voting hours on Sundays because of a “scrivener’s error,” in an…

Texas Republican congressional candidate Michael Wood, backed by Never Trump Illinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, placed ninth in Saturday’s spring special election for Texas’ 6th Congressional District. Kinzinger flew to Texas last…

Data from the 2020 U.S. census shows Americans are moving South and West, shaking up the number of congressional seats in some states. Five of the seven states set to gain House seats are run by Republicans as people flee Democrat…

Anthony Fauci called Texas’s and Mississippi’s decision to lift mask mandates “inexplicable.” President Joe Biden called it “Neanderthal thinking.” Failed Senate and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called Gov. Greg Abbott’s…

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here seems to be some confusion over the origin and ownership of the three coronavirus vaccines approved by the Food and Drug Administration and now being administered across the country. Indeed, the reaction to…

AUSTIN – Texas Governor Greg Abbott brought an end to state-wide mask mandates and gathering restrictions late Tuesday evening, boasting that – like everything else – state coronavirus death tolls are simply bigger in Texas. “Big is what…

President Joe Biden holds up a face mask as he speaks about the U.S. economy in Wilmington, Del., November 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Biden criticized decisions by the governors of Mississippi and Texas to lift their…

A series of winter storms battered much of the United States this week, setting records, disrupting daily life, and providing ominous glimpses of a climate-changed future. The Onion looks at some of the most eye-popping numbers from this…