[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. By the time Kimberly Mata-Rubio sat down in front of Texas lawmakers Tuesday night, 13 hours had passed since she arrived at the Capitol. Mata-Rubio told legislators the wait to testify for

[ad_1] The senior ethicist for the Southern Baptist Convention threw the weight of the denomination behind a so-called red flag law in Tennessee, even as rank-and-file ministers and congregants increasingly see denominational leadership’s values as contradictory to their own. Brent Leatherwood, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, recently wrote

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS – EXCLUSIVE: Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem took firm action over the weekend to strengthen the Second Amendment rights of people in her state, signing an executive order on stage during her address to the annual National Rifle Association convention to stop what she called “discriminatory action” against those rights. Speaking with

[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Powering homes withcars is nothing new I had to smile today when I read the lead story, “How your car can power your home.” (Page A1, April 17) Heck, we were doing that with a Land Rover 30 years

[ad_1] Fox, Dominion reach $787M settlement over election claims WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox and Dominion Voting Systems have reached a $787 million settlement in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit. The agreement averts a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election.

[ad_1] Never letting a bad situation go to waste, the ladies of ABC’s The View spent the beginning of Tuesday’s episode exploiting the tragic and allegedly unlawful use of deadly force by an elderly white man against a black teenager in Missouri. According to them, it was “unfortunate” that people had the right to self-defense

[ad_1] FILE — Re-enactors portraying the Union army’s 20th Main, march during the 23rd Annual Gettysburg Civil War Heritage Days, in Gettysburg, Pa., June 25, 2005. Some historical battle re-enactors in New York are holding their musket fire because of worries over the state’s new gun law that declares parks, government property and a long

[ad_1] NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Weeks after The Covenant School shooting, the National Rifle Association released a statement regarding the possibility of red flag law in Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee called on the legislature to pass a red flag law during a pressconference at the Midtown Hills Precinct on Tuesday, April 10. The bill proposal

[ad_1] Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is attending a “meet-and-greet policy discussion” at the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday evening as tensions between DeSantis and former President Donald Trump continue to rise. The event, hosted by the nonprofit group And to the Republic, will feature expected guest appearances from Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Thomas

[ad_1] Sometimes, a gesture reveals much more than people realize. The kind folks gathered at the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis booed former Vice President Mike Pence when he stepped onto the stage to speak with them. Video of the event made the booing seem like a wave of sound that washed over the

[ad_1] Sometimes, a gesture reveals much more than people realize. The kind folks gathered at the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis booed former Vice President Mike Pence when he stepped onto the stage to speak with them. Video of the event made the booing seem like a wave of sound that washed over the

[ad_1] Republican Rep. Nancy Mace from my home state of South Carolina is mostly terrible, but I’m willing to acknowledge when she’s almost respectable. Yes, I’m generous to a fault. After a week of regularly scheduled mass shootings, Mace ventured into the mouth of madness itself — “Fox News Sunday” — and suggested that Republicans

[ad_1] Kevin Monahan Washington County Sheriff’s Office (NY) A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said. The young woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was struck by gunfire as a man fired

[ad_1] PORTSMOUTH — The firearms and ammunition 25-year-old Kyle Hendrickson allegedly had when threatening to “shoot up” Portsmouth High School last week has local residents and leaders feeling like their worst nightmare easily could have become reality. “The guy had guns, body armor,” Portsmouth Mayor Deaglan McEachern. “That’s pretty nuts and terrifying to me as

[ad_1] On Friday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem provided the umpteenth example of how dark and strange today’s Republican politicians have gotten, when she told the crowd at an NRA event about how her granddaughter (who is under the age of two) already has two guns. “Little Miss Addie, who is almost two, and Branch

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS—A group of politicians seeking the Republican presidential nomination went before the National Rifle Association (NRA) on April 14 and vowed to fight for the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has affirmed that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms, including outside one’s home. However, states and government agencies