The Texas State Capitol in Austin on Sept. 5, 2023. Brandon Bell/Getty Images A Texas Senate committee advanced a newly drawn congressional map on Aug. 21 that was passed by the state House, setting it up for a vote on the state Senate floor. The vote tally in the Texas Senate Special Committee on Congressional
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2025. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) announced on Aug. 21 that he is running to become Texas attorney general. If he wins, he would succeed Ken Paxton, who is running for the
A sign seeks tips about the disappearance of 6-year-old Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, in Everman, Texas, on March 26, 2023. Madeleine Cook/Star-Telegram via AP, File The FBI announced Thursday that one of the bureau’s Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested this week for the alleged murder of her son and is now set to face charges
The California Capitol building in Sacramento, Calif., on March 16, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times California lawmakers are returning to Sacramento to vote on a series of measures to expand Democratic control of the state’s U.S. House of Representatives delegation, facing a tight deadline. Specifically, the series of bills under consideration—dubbed the Election Rigging Response
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation calling for a special election on a redrawn congressional map, in Sacramento, Calif., on Aug. 21, 2025. Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Aug. 21 signed a legislative package to put a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot that would redraw the state’s congressional map to
President Donald Trump at the White House on Aug. 18, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times President Donald Trump has scored a significant win, with a New York appeals court throwing out the half-a-billion-dollar penalty he received in his business fraud case. The decision on Aug. 21 was issued after a hearing last year in which
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick testifies before a House Appropriations Committee hearing on U.S. President Donald Trump’s budget request for the Department of Commerce, on Capitol Hill, on June 5, 2025. Leah Millis /Reuters Shares of major semiconductor companies fell sharply on Aug. 20 following reports that the Trump administration is considering taking equity