Cars are parked outside the Texas Capitol building, amid a redistricting battle between Republican and Democratic state lawmakers, in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 20, 2025. Reuters/Sergio Flores The Texas Senate on Aug. 23 passed a bill that will redraw Texas’s congressional maps and increase Republicans’ hold on the state’s U.S. House delegation by as many
Mobile phones are locked into ‘Yondr’ pouches before people enter an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum on Nov. 22, 2019, in New York City. Yondr creates phone-free spaces for artists, educators, organizations and individuals. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images The majority of U.S. K-12 students have already returned to the classroom or will soon do
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a news conference in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 12, 2025. Chris O’Meara/AP Photo Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration on Aug. 22 appealed a ruling made by a federal judge halting the expansion of the “Alligator Alcatraz” illegal immigrant detention center in the Everglades. The appeal follows U.S. Judge Kathleen Williams’s ruling
Turbines at Orsted’s offshore wind farm near Nysted, Denmark, on Sept. 4, 2023. Tom Little/Reuters The U.S. Department of the Interior on Aug. 22 directed Danish company Orsted to halt all construction on Revolution Wind, the offshore wind farm off Rhode Island that is nearing completion. In a letter, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
California’s High Speed Rail Project announced the completion of a section of bridgework in Madera County in May 2023, the project’s first major milestone. California High Speed Rail Authority California’s beleaguered high-speed rail project is under investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The probe, launched Aug. 19, will focus on
Children’s furniture is displayed in a showroom in New York on May 29, 2019. Mike Segar/Reuters President Donald Trump announced Friday that his administration is considering tariffs on furniture imports, with an investigation underway and a report expected within 50 days. “This will bring the Furniture Business back to North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, and
Displaced Gaza residents carry food parcels as they raid trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on Aug. 9, 2025. AFP via Getty Food shortages in the Gaza Strip have reached the level of famine, according to a report from Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an independent group of