Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Sunday evening that he is running for a fourth term as governor of the Lone Star State. Earlier in the week, Abbott said he would make a special announcement from Houston on Sunday, outlining his vision for the future of the state. Abbott said it was in Houston that
U.S. President Donald Trump’s representative John Coale speaks with Reuters, on the day prisoners released from Belarus arrive to Vilnius, Lithuania, September 11, 2025. Kacper Pempel/Reuters President Donald Trump on Sunday said John Coale, who helped negotiate the release of prisoners from Belarus, was his choice for special envoy to Minsk and would press for
Some of the Democratic senators who supported advancing the government funding measure, enabling it to proceed, held a presser to defend their votes. “This was the only deal on the table,” said Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, called the deal “a win
President Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century to attend a regular-season NFL game Sunday as he took in a portion of the Washington Commanders’ contest against the Detroit Lions. There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Mr. Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first
New York Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, a Democrat first elected to state office in 2005, has become one of a handful of unlikely leaders of state efforts to preserve the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. Sitting in front of a bookshelf in his home office in Glen Cove, New York, a historic
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 7, 2025. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo A proposal to end the 40-day government shutdown is developing on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Sunday. “A deal is coming together,” Thune said outside the Senate chamber
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 9, 2025. Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images The U.S. Senate is on the verge of overcoming a key procedural hurdle on a bill to end the government shutdown as the funding impasse nears its 41st day. On Sunday evening, following an unusually busy weekend at the Capitol that saw