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Courthouse News reports: A Texas judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of a migrant shelter in El Paso, once again blocking state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to shut it down. In his ruling, El Paso County Judge Francisco Dominguez granted Annunciation House’s motion for summary judgment. Paxton had claimed the nonprofit was assisting migrants regardless of legal status, and …

The Hill reports: Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is calling on President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race, becoming the second sitting Democratic lawmaker to urge the incumbent to step aside after his lackluster performance in last week’s debate. Grijalva — who has served in Congress since 2003 — told The New York Times in an interview that he will …

Bloomberg News reports: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Donald Trump should come forward with his plan to quickly end the war with Russia, warning that any proposal must avoid violating the nation’s sovereignty. “If Trump knows how to finish this war, he should tell us today,” Zelenskiy said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Kyiv on Wednesday. “If there are …

The Nebraska Examiner reports: Nebraska appears poised to follow six states since the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade to vote on the future of abortion rights in its state constitution. Abortion-rights petition campaign Protect Our Rights said it turned in a record 207,000 signatures since its mid-November 2023 launch, the most in state history for any petition effort. …

“On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence, announcing ‘that all political connection between [the American colonies] and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.’ And the rest, as they say, is history. “The Declaration mentions God three times: first as the Creator, then as Supreme Judge of the world, and …

SF Gate reports: A Northern California wildfire tearing through parched vegetation on the outskirts of Oroville, 150 miles northeast of San Francisco, has triggered 13,000 people to evacuate their homes. The Thompson Fire was at 3,002 acres on Wednesday morning with zero containment, according to Cal Fire. “Conditions out there in our county this summer are much different than what …

The Associated Press reports: President Joe Biden defiantly vowed on Wednesday to keep running for reelection, rejecting growing pressure from within his Democratic Party to withdraw after a disastrous debate performance raised questions about his readiness. He said he would not be forced from the race. “I am running. I am the leader of the Democratic Party. No one is …

From the Justice Department: An Arkansas man was arrested today for allegedly assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His alleged actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 …

Reuters reports: Britain’s Conservative Party all-but conceded election defeat to Keir Starmer’s Labour on Wednesday, a day before polling stations even opened, and warned that the opposition party was on course for a record-breaking victory. Opinion polls show the centre-left Labour Party is set for a big win in Thursday’s vote that would end 14 years of Conservative government and …

“The people who are putting Steve Bannon in jail right now are communists or communist sympathizers, or at least we would say radical leftists. The House Committee on Un-American Activities was great. It was fabulous. “There were actual communists, not only in Hollywood – there were communists in the State Department. There were communists who had infiltrated the government who …