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He'd noticed that a local member of the state legislature, Mike Lang, had become a vocal advocate for using public money for private schools despite the fact that Lang campaigned as a supporter of public education. With a little research, Tackett found that Lang had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the Wilks brothers and Tim Dunn, billionaire megadonors whose deep pockets and Christian nationalist views have consumed the Texas GOP.

Behind closed doors, Lee is planning a new course: The mayor and a top official want to remove fewer camps and improve sanitation around them, they said in an interview with this news organization - a recognition that people will continue to live beneath overpasses and on sidewalks in a city with diminishing resources to provide shelter. That's because two years of intense sweeps haven't moved homeless residents indoors, Hauswald said.

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I want to do a little bit of a lightning round, because it's not often I'll get access to a president of the United States, Cohen said. Come on, man, Obama encouraged him. So, couple questions here: Are aliens real? They're real, but I haven't seen them, and they're not being kept in Area 51, Obama said. There's no underground facility, he continued, adding, unless there's this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.

I think we are on this precipice, teetering on this little thing where we have no problem discussing how bad marijuana is but don't attack alcohol, because that's a part of our culture. Well you know what, people get behind the wheel drinking everyday and kill people. I'd much rather smell weed on the side of the street than liquor on someone's breath trying to talk to me. So I think we can be hypocrites about it.

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She said she has been assuring European leaders at the conference that she has absolute certainty Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives despite her many concerns about the elections. Pelosi said she is alarmed by the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a FBI raid on a polling station in Fulton County, Georgia to retrieve 2020 ballots.

Vermont's Democratic Socialist senator and Florida's right-wing governor want to slam the brakes on the hundreds of resource-intensive new facilities springing up across the country to power the artificial intelligence industry. And both point to profits, not the public good, as the real factor motivating the boom. In many ways, the convergence was inevitable. Public wariness about the data-center industry is growing, and politicians could no longer ignore the outcry. Public skepticism of AI is also ubiquitous.

According to the motion for grand jury transcripts that Lemon and Georgia Fort (the other journalist charged in the case) filed yesterday, also on Tuesday, their attorneys had a video meeting with whoever plans to prosecute this case, at which DOJ opposed the bid to get transcripts. On February 10, 2026, counsel for Mr. Lemon and Ms. Fort met and conferred by video with government counsel and advised of their intent to file this joint motion. The government, through counsel, indicated they oppose this motion.

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground.

All I said to people who say, you have this tension, we didn't have any attention. All I said is, if you want to be a legislator and pass bills, it's important to have the votes to do it. It doesn't help to go online and criticize the people that you want to have because they're not as progressive as you are. She's been a star, eloquent, forceful, and the rest. And she gets along very well with Hakeem Jeffries. They have a New York connection, but I'm so glad she's here.

One of the most dramatic cases involves Larry Bushart, a retired police officer in Lexington, Tenn, according to NPR. A self-described progressive and "keyboard warrior," he posted memes that mocked Republican officials' mourning over Kirk. He was arrested by local police at the request of Sheriff Nick Weems of Perry County, Tenn. Prosecutors later dropped the charges, and Bushart is now suing, represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.