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The Associated Press reports: Texas Democrats on Monday successfully prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’ 2026 midterm prospects as his political standing falters. After dozens of Democrats left the state, the Republican-dominated House was unable to establish the quorum of lawmakers required to …

From the editorial board of the Tulsa World: State Superintendent Ryan Walters insulted Oklahomans when he recently lied at a press conference and then attempted to plant a conspiracy theory about it. This is just the latest in nearly five years of controversies. Rather than confirm, deny or explain possibilities of what might have happened, a spokesman for the Oklahoma …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are helping to launch a SPAC targeting American manufacturers, adding to the array of companies the president’s sons are involved in beyond their family’s real-estate empire. New America Acquisition I Corp. on Monday filed paperwork for what it hopes will be a $300 million public offering on the New …

ABC News reports: A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill passed last month will create $718 billion in additional debt-service costs, bringing the law’s overall debt projection to $4.1 trillion over 10 years. “As a result, and net of any changes in borrowing for federal credit programs, the …

Reuters reports: A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit by Devin Nunes, the former California congressman and now chief executive of Trump Media and Technology Group, against NBCUniversal over a comment by Rachel Maddow about his dealings with a suspected Russian agent. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in Manhattan ruled that no reasonable jury could find Maddow demonstrated actual malice …

The Times of Israel reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told ministers in the past day that he will seek cabinet backing for a plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, despite objections from within the IDF, Hebrew media reports. Several ministers reportedly said Netanyahu used the term “occupation of the Strip” in private conversations describing his vision for the …

The New York Times reports: Democratic state legislators from Texas who fled their state Sunday to try to block the passage of gerrymandered U.S. House maps stood on Monday with Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York with a message: Any notion of fair political mapmaking has ended. “If Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage, …

“First of all, young men don’t like to take orders from women. They definitely don’t want to take orders from women like that. That’s, like, supremely unattractive to men. At the core of the Democrat Party is a coalition of resentment, envy, and hate. None of this is racist [lie]. In fact, this actually expands representation to Hispanics [lie]. The …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Brian Burch, a fierce critic of the late Pope Francis and longtime leader of a group that spent millions of dollars to put President Donald Trump back in the White House, was confirmed Saturday as U.S. to the Vatican on a party-line 49-44 vote in the Senate. Burch is the former head of …

The Washington Post reports: Pregnant veterans would no longer be allowed to receive abortions at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in cases of rape, incest or when the pregnancy threatens their health under a proposed rule from the Trump administration that would revoke a Biden-era policy expanding abortion access. Months after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to an …