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Social Democrats tabled motion in response to Israel’s killing of civilians in Gaza The party’s foreign affairs spokesperson Gary Gannon tabled a motion today calling on the Government to “withdraw the diplomatic status” of the Ambassador “given the failure of the Israeli state to cease the deliberate targeting of civilians, journalists, UN…

AUSTIN — A year-long deadlock over whether Texas should join dozens of other states in creating a voucherlike program that helps pay for private schools could reach a climax in an education funding debate by the full House today.Rural Republicans, backed by Democrats, are expected to offer a “ripper amendment” that would take education savings…

CNN  —  The USS Carney shot down at least three Houthi drones headed in the ship’s direction in the southern Red Sea on Sunday and responded to a distress call from a civilian commercial vessel that was fired upon by a…

History, though, can only be a guiding force. There isn't always an analogy to what is happening in the present. This year, we do have a duly elected president in Joe Biden. We also have, however, a former president in Donald Trump, whose residence was searched by the FBI and who continues to falsely claim that the election he lost for another…

University Relations The 25th annual Arkansas Poll, released today, found voters…

The Iowa caucus that opens Republican presidential primary season is less than two months off, and, as he has been for some time, Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to win both the caucus and the whole shebang. (He leads Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley by roughly 30 points each.) Besides Haley and DeSantis very slowly switching…

Comment on this storyCommentRep. Dan Newhouse, one of the 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has advanced to the general election, surviving a challenge from a candidate backed by the former president.Newhouse advanced from Tuesday’s all-party primary in Washington’s 4th…

Over months of discussions about whether documents were still missing, some officials also came to suspect Trump’s representatives were not truthful at times, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.On Tuesday, a lawyer for Trump said the agents who brought the…

Ron DeSantis argues that Major League Baseball players of bygone times threw faster than today’s equivalents. During a Friday night event in Grimes, Iowa, the Florida Governor and 2024 presidential candidate again discussed Iowa native Bob Feller when he contended that Feller and fellow fireballer Nolan Ryan had more heat on their throws than…

The billboards around town may say “Sarah for Alaska” – but as far as resident David Gober can tell, Sarah Palin “is all for Palin”.At a coffee shop not far from Palin’s campaign headquarters in Anchorage, Gober, his wife Zelda Marie and a few friends meet up regularly to affably dissect their politics and golf games. The group – like many…