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by Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune June 8, 2026WASHINGTON — One of the lawyers who defended Attorney General Ken Paxton during his three-year-old impeachment trial endorsed Democrat James Talarico Monday in Texas’ U.S. Senate race.Dan Cogdell, a veteran Houston attorney who represented Paxton in his long-running felony securities fraud case and his 2023 impeachment, announced his support for Talarico in an interview with the attorney general’s Democratic opponent on the lawyer’s podcast.�

During a bitter "60 Minutes" interview with CBS News' Kristen Welker, President Donald Trump repeated his debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and attacked her as "crooked" for disagreeing. But journalist Jose Pagliery, writing for NOTUS, lays out a variety of way in which the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is undermining — not promoting or encouraging — ways to keep American elections safe and secure."President Donald Trump says 'if you don't have honest voting, you

As President Donald Trump’s Iran war enters its fourth month, a prominent retired Lt. General is pressing the commander-in-chief to level with U.S. troops in the Middle East and tell them whether a plan exists.Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) served as commander of U.S. Army Europe from 2011 to 2012. He also served in Iraq. Writing at The Bulwark, Hertling pointed to President Trump’s explosive “Meet the Press” interview from Sunday, citing his remarks that it “costs us very little” to keep troops where they are. “I think

The past several weeks have been a legislative nightmare for the GOP, as both party infighting and the actions of President Donald Trump have foiled and stalled key priorities. Now, writes Politico congressional reporter Mia McCarthy, “Republicans are about to put one Donald Trump-induced headache behind them — but another is right behind it.”The issues at the center of these difficulties are the immigration budget reconciliation bill and FISA spy powers, both of which have been grappled over for months as Trump has complicated their pass

Although Donald J. Trump's first presidential campaign in 2000 was short-lived, his second in 2016 dramatically reshaped the Republican Party around the slogan "Make America Great Again." But many of President Trump's foes believe that he has created one crisis after another since returning to the White House 16 and one-half months ago. In an early June op-ed for The Hill, William S. Becker — who served in the U.S. Department of Energy under former President George W. Bush and is also a former official for the Wisconsin Department of Justice — calls for a "Take Back America movement" that will save the United States from MAGA's

As California continues to count ballots, Republicans spread conspiracy theories that something shady is unfolding in the state. California's large population has about 80 percent of its voters who vote by mail, and the state counts all ballots that were postmarked on or before election day. They give one week for the ballots to arrive. Republicans think that because Spencer Pratt was initially in the lead and has now fallen to third place, something is afoot. Pratt was a boyfriend of a former reality TV star. In reality, only about 12 percent of voters identify as registered Republicans, the County Registrar sa

Trump's MAGA movement has centered on themes of traditional masculinity and nationalism. The movement has been associated with Trump's public appearances, including dancing to "Macho Man" by the Village People.Recent reporting has connected environmental policy decisions to declining male fertility rates. The New Republic reported that higher exposure to pesticides and other chemicals can lower sperm count.Sperm concentration has fallen dramatically over the past several decades.

This Monday night, June 8, President Donald Trump is planning to attend an NBA Finals game at New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the Queens native is unpopular in his home town, which is predominantly Democratic. And according to the Washington Post reporter Dan Diamond, Trump is "widely expected to be showered with boos" at the NBA (National Basketball Association) game — where the New York Knicks will be competing with the San Antonio Spurs.Trump, Diamond reports,

Elizabeth Bonker is a silent woman with a loud mission. She wants government agencies to cover the costs of training people with autism in a form of communication called assisted spelling. One problem: Leading professional organizations don’t believe it works.“All nonspeakers above the age of 5 should be given the opportunity,” typed Bonker, who is 28 and cannot talk. Her mother, Virginia Breen, held a wireless keyboard for her. They sat on a hotel patio before an April 27 meeting with a senior aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.“We are misunderstood and underestimated,” Bonker typed, occasionally humming or lightly groaning as she considered where to place a slender

The FBI agents arrived at David Bolter’s Milwaukee home on a cool, cloudy Wednesday morning in late May. They were armed with a list of questions for the 2020 poll worker, who had raised concerns about the way local officials handled the 2020 election, Bolter told Votebeat.This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.President Donald Trump