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Longtime Texas Democrat Al Green was forced into a runoff with fellow Democrat Christian Menefee after neither candidate exceeded 50 percent in the March primary.The runoff is scheduled for May 26 to determine the party’s nominee in Texas’s 18th Congressional District.Republican-led redistricting put both incumbents in the same Houston-area seat…

A ballistic missile launched from Iran toward Turkish airspace was intercepted by NATO defenses on Wednesday, marking the first time a NATO member has been directly drawn into the conflict in this manner.Turkey’s Defense Ministry confirmed the missile was launched from Iran and headed toward its airspace before being taken…

Newly surfaced surveillance footage shows a Black Lives Matter executive in Illinois engaged in a physical altercation with a female staffer inside a resource center after she accused him of gambling away group funds.The clip shows Clyde McLemore, executive director for Black Lives Matter in Lake County, grappling with project…

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a unanimous win Wednesday in a key immigration case, ruling that federal appeals courts must defer to immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals when deciding whether an asylum-seeker’s claimed mistreatment rises to the legal level of persecution.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote…

U.S. talks with Iran collapsed after Tehran's negotiators openly said they planned to enrich uranium to weapons-capable levels, President Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said.Witkoff recalled being stunned and said he and Jared Kushner exchanged uneasy looks as the Iranian team laid out its position.He said the Iranians opened…

Four-term Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s long-running feud with the MAGA wing concluded with a primary defeat Tuesday.Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, was defeated in the 2nd Congressional District primary by state representative and businessman Steve Toth after years of turmoil between Crenshaw and the MAGA faction that questioned his loyalty to…

Rep. Jasmine Crockett's attempt to move from the House to the Senate ended Tuesday when state Rep. James Talarico defeated her in the Democratic primary, the Associated Press reported. Talarico, 36, who has built a quickly rising national profile, now becomes the Democratic nominee in a state Democrats have not…

Dallas police detained a man outside the Marriott Dallas Uptown hotel where Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a primary election night watch party.The incident happened shortly before 6 pm Central as attendees arrived for the event scheduled after polls closed in the Texas Republican Senate primary.According to a report…

French President Emmanuel Macron said he had ordered the nuclear-powered carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group to sail toward the Mediterranean amid ongoing operations after strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran and subsequent Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region.Task force and timelineThe carrier's air wing…

Three Monroe County women were indicted on multiple ballot-related charges connected to alleged irregularities in the August 26, 2025, Frisco City municipal election.Indictments and defendantsThe defendants were identified as Sarah Bennett, 60; Sharon Denson, 67; and Samantha Kyles, 46.The charges announced by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall include 17 counts…