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At least four Trump merchandise stores have closed this year. Store owners say with Trump in his final term, there isn't as much to fire up his consumer fan base and sales have softened.
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The U.S. and Israel are preparing plans for a possible attack on Iran in early November, after the U.S. midterm elections, a person briefed on war planning told NPR. Iran said it is prepared. -
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction on border walls and other barriers across the Big Bend region of West Texas to continue. The request comes after a federal district judge blocked the construction amid an ongoing legal fight. -
Texans are casting ballots as early voting in underway in what could be a historic election. A battery of polls have shown Democrats including Senate nominee James Talarico with a lead. But how reliable are those polls? And what does the trend in early voting tells us about what to expect on Nov. 3? -
A new poll indicates voters in South Texas who supported Donald Trump in 2024 are turning away from the president and the Republican Congresswoman seeking re-election in the border region. Tejano music star Bobby Pulido running as a Democrat appears poised to flip the 15th Congressional District in the midterm elections. -
Both parties purchase data to build a voter file with info like cell phone numbers. That means there’s almost no way to stop the texts. -
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration has to continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons as litigation on efforts to change the policy continues. -
The authority to issue executive orders traditionally belongs to the chief executive, like the governor or a county judge. -
About 4.3% of the county's 952,713 registered voters cast a ballot Monday, compared to just 2.8% on the first day of early voting in the 2022 midterm election, and 4.14% of voters in 2018. -
Less than two weeks before Election Day, President Trump continues to crash through barriers that he wouldn't dare cross in his first term. -
Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander along with dozens of American and Israeli rabbis and activists were helping Palestinian olive harvesters when they were detained by Israeli forces.
