The 37-year-old state legislator, former middle school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian will become Texas’ first Democratic senator since 1993.
Austin, Texas | Democrat James Talarico flipped a US Senate seat in Texas on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), defeating Republican Ken Paxton to pull off the first statewide victory in more than 30 years and sending a jolt through a longtime GOP stronghold that President Donald Trump carried by double digits just two years ago.
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Trump will discuss the "reduction of nuclear weapons" during the unprecedented talks, a spokeswoman says.
President Donald Trump will meet jointly next week with China’s leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the White House said Friday, a first-ever trilateral sit-down between the leaders of the three countries.
The discussion would be the first trilateral meeting between the leaders, although all three attended the larger G20 meeting in 2019.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned this week after reports of multiple affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy, Alice Huang.
Some Republican state officials are reviving a bid for mail-in voting restrictions for the 2028 election by appealing a court order blocking the Postal Service from carrying out a revised ballot rule.
A US trade panel reviewing lamb imports is unable to agree on whether Australian meat imports have hurt the American industry, leaving Donald Trump to rule on tariffs.
