Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), a candidate for governor, is warning schools across the Big 12 Conference that the state would consider suing any institution that sanctions Texas Tech over a decision to play a quarterback who sued the NCAA to regain his eligibility. In a letter to Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark and Kansas Chancellor…
The Texas judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony's murder trial described him as a "nice young man," but stood firmly behind the jury's stiff prison sentence in the high-profile case.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is threatening legal action against the NCAA’s Big 12 Conference after reports that league officials are considering sanctions against Texas Tech for allowing quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play under a court order. In a letter to the conference, Paxton’s office warned that any attempt to punish Texas Tech for complying […]
A Florida high school valedictorian posted a mind-blowing graduation quote on his school district’s official website — urging fellow students use artificial intelligence to cut corners.
A California Democrat took to the House floor Tuesday to declare Donald Trump's tendency to fall asleep in public a "grave national security threat" — and demanded that Republicans join her in forcing the White House to come clean about the president's health.The speech by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove was first flagged by journalist Aaron Rupar. "In meeting after meeting, Donald Trump has fallen asleep — in public, on camera, in broad daylight, when people lavish praise on him," she said. "We cannot trust the White House on matters concerning the president's health because they are denying what Americans are seeing with our own two eyes."The speech came days after a dramatic confrontation at the House Foreign Affairs Committee.Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) played three videos of Trump apparently sleeping at official events — then told Secretary of State Marco Rubio, "You're lying consistently to Congress," after Rubio insisted he had never witnessed the president doze off."Just last week, Marco Rubio seemingly lied to Congress about this when he told my colleague that he had never been at a meeting where Trump fell asleep," Kamlager-Dove said, "despite being shown a video where the president dozed off right next to him."Trump appeared to nod off repeatedly during a December 2025 Cabinet meeting.He again seemed to be sleeping during an Oval Office coal announcement on June 4, and once more at Madison Square Garden during Game 3 of the NBA Finals on June 8.CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner diagnosed the president on air with "severe daytime somnolence." "He falls asleep very often," Reiner said, warning the condition carries increased risk of dementia, heart attacks, and cognitive decline."Is he sleeping in classified briefings, on calls with foreign leaders?" Kamlager-Dove asked. "How can we trust a president who is literally asleep at the wheel to make informed decisions about national security?"An April 10-13 Economist/YouGov poll found 48% of Americans believe Trump is suffering modest to significant cognitive decline.Kamlager-Dove also cited bruised hands the White House attributes to handshakes; an MRI whose target organ Trump said he didn't know; a dentist visit kept off the presidential calendar; and finasteride — a hair loss drug Trump took for years — quietly dropped from his public medication list. "The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at this time," the White House told the Washington Post.Trump previously blamed the December Cabinet meeting on boredom. "I didn't sleep," he told officials. "I just closed them because I wanted to get the hell outta here.""It is time for Republicans to wake up and join Democrats in demanding transparency from this White House about the president's health," Kamlager-Dove said. "It is a matter of national security."
President Donald Trump let slip another disastrous gaffe during an Oval Office event this week, with The Hill reporting that strategists within the GOP are calling it "a doozy" and "extremely unhelpful" for the party's midterms strategy.During a Wednesday event at the White House, Trump was pressed for a reaction to the newly released inflation report, showing that the rate had reached a three-year-high, despite the president's repeated insistence that he had "tamed" inflation after his return to power. In response, Trump said, "I love it, the numbers were great, I love the inflation," before going on a seeming tangent about oil barrels purportedly seized from Iranian ships, but the initial quote spread like wildfire online. Given how much affordability is set to define the midterms for voters, and given how little empathy Trump has shown about the issue, many argued that he had let slip the perfect line for Democrats to run in attack ads for November.Sources within the party are also echoing that feeling, from the opposite perspective, worrying that the president has once again made their lives more difficult heading into a make-or-break election season."Republican strategists tell Morning Report that Trump’s message runs counter to GOP efforts to communicate their focus on the economy to voters ahead of the midterms and puts members in the difficult position of having to defend the president’s comments," The Hill reported on Thursday morning, adding later, "Trump has on several occasions brushed off the economic and political fallout of the Iran war. He said last month that he wasn’t thinking 'even a little bit' about Americans’ cost of living in negotiating with Iran and doesn’t care about the midterms."“It’s extremely unhelpful to any Republican who’s on the ballot,” former Republican National Committee communications director Doug Heye told the outlet. “If you wanted to proactively get messaging wrong, this is how you would do it.”He also noted: “It’s hard to see any argument where this could be spun favorably.”Ron Bonjean, a GOP strategist, told The Hill that it was vital for the Trump administration to "clarify very quickly that Trump thought the inflation number would be much higher and that he is confident the number will come down once hostilities end with Iran.”“GOP members will need this air cover almost immediately so they can point to what Trump meant by this,” Bonjean said, citing the spin Trump himself gave in a New York Post interview shortly after the initial gaffe.“Republicans have learned to shimmy and shake around the more colorful comments the President makes, and this one, admittedly, is a doozy. But his point is correct: A nuclear Iran is much worse than four percent inflation,” ex-Fox News host GOP political consultant Bill O’Reilly said. “If inflation is reasonable and trending downward in September and October, this quip will be forgotten. If it’s rising, we’ll be seeing about a billion ads on it before Election Day.”