Politics

The Republican-controlled state House in Texas has passed new congressional maps that aim to pad the party’s majority in Washington by as much as five seats in the midterm elections, a move that comes as battles over redistricting spread across the country. With Texas set to fully enact its new plan as soon as this…

Former President Barack Obama is backing California’s plan to counter mid-decade redistricting efforts by Republicans in Texas. At a fundraising event Tuesday night for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, Obama said the party needs to “respond effectively” to Republican attempts to gerrymander. “I’ve had to wrestle with my preference, which would be that we don’t…

After a two-week quorum break by Democrats, the Texas House on Wednesday forced through a redistricting plan on a party-line vote. The controversial new plan will impact every voter in the state next year. The Texas House approved new maps for Congress that are likely to give Republicans five more seats in the House after…

WASHINGTON — As members of the National Guard deploy to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s takeover of policing in Washington, members of the military are also set to take on prosecutorial roles handling civilian crimes. Twenty members of the Defense Department are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys…

A 6-year-old Ecuadorian girl and her mother who had been living in Queens, New York, and were detained after a routine immigration hearing earlier this month have been deported. Dayra is one of at least four New York City public school students to be detained by ICE this year. She’s also believed to be the…

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire border wall along the southern border with Mexico is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — and she credited President Trump with the idea. Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico,…

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he has ordered his attorneys to conduct a review of Smithsonian museums, calling their portrayal of U.S. history too negative and focused too much on “how bad Slavery was.” The president said he would subject the museums to “the exact same process” his administration has conducted of universities, with…

A Washington D.C. man says he ordered Uber Eats over the weekend, but his delivery driver was detained by federal agents before he could make that delivery. Cellphone video captures witnesses trying to help an Uber Eats delivery driver as he was handcuffed by what appeared to be federal agents in the city’s Shaw neighborhood…

What happens in Vegas … could spell trouble for the U.S. economy. Empty hotel rooms, half-filled casinos and an overall feeling of dread have cast a pall on this normally bustling mecca of 24-7 entertainment. There were 11.3% fewer visitors to Las Vegas and 10.7% fewer convention goers in June compared to the same month…

President Donald Trump has projected himself as a peacemaker since returning to the White House in January, touting his efforts to end global conflicts. In meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders Monday, Trump repeated that he has been instrumental in stopping multiple wars but didn’t specify which. “I’ve done six wars,…