Day: May 29, 2024

Business owner wins tight Texas primary, aims to make history by flipping deep-blue House seat

6:31 am May 29, 2024

A small business owner and former city councilman has won a tight primary fight and is now tasked with flipping one of Texas’ bluest House districts for Republicans, the Associated Press projects. Republican Darrell Day, who served as a member of the Arlington City Council and founded an executive search business, defeated his opponent, former […]

Louisiana to become 1st state to require Ten Commandments be displayed in schools if governor signs bill

6:15 am May 29, 2024

Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that could make the state the first to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all schools and colleges that receive public funding. Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, still needs to sign the new bill into law for Louisiana to make history as the first state with such […]

Trump’s defense dismantles prosecution’s imaginary crimes. But did jury listen?

6:00 am May 29, 2024

An expired crime that’s no crime at all. A mysterious secondary crime that was shrouded incognito. A lying witness and convicted perjurer who is also a thief. That is the sum and substance of the inane criminal case brought against former President Donald Trump in a Manhattan courtroom. It came into full focus during closing […]

GOP Rep Tony Gonzales survives challenge from the right in Texas runoff

5:33 am May 29, 2024

The Associated Press projects that Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas will win his Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday with far-right challenger Brandon Herrera. Gonzales is running for a third two-year term representing a majority Hispanic district in southwestern Texas. With more than 800 miles of U.S.-Mexico border, Texas’s 23rd district has the largest stretch […]

Former Trump official wins tight Texas GOP primary runoff

4:13 am May 29, 2024

A former Trump campaign official has won a tight primary fight and will now serve as the representative of a deep-red Texas House district. Republican Katrina Pierson, who served as the spokesperson for former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, defeated incumbent state Rep. Justin Holland in Tuesday’s primary runoff for Texas’ 33rd House District, […]