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Democratic Austin Mayor Kirk Watson apologized to residents as they woke up to a third day of winter storm-induced power outages on Friday.

The mayor of Austin, Texas, has apologized and says the city failed to communicate with its residents after a winter storm left thousands without power for days.

Fox News host Sean Hannity recalls some of Rep. Ilhan Omar's controversial statements following her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Some lawmakers are expected to bring family members of victims of police violence to President Biden's State of the Union address.

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., calls for an 'overhaul' of procedures to protect classified material as questions swirl over Biden's handling of sensitive documents.

Sen. Joe Manchin joined every GOP senator in introducing legislation that would kill President Biden's ESG rule that would affect the retirement savings of 152 million Americans.

Rep. Adam Schiff's Senate campaign is selling a range of merchandise, including an enamel pin that shows a cartoon Schiff rolling up his sleeves and a retro Schiff T-shirt.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has proposed a plan to expand state tax relief for veterans. His act would expand military tax exemption to $25,000 of income for this tax year.

A woman who was a public official in a Michigan community admitted Wednesday that she broke a seal on a ballot box to ensure that votes could not be recounted in her 2020 race, prosecutors said. Kathy Funk, 59, pleaded no contest to misconduct in office, a felony, under an agreement that includes no time in jail. Funk, a Democrat, was the Flint Township clerk in 2020 with responsibility over elections.

The 2023 Chicago mayoral race features eight candidates challenging Mayor Lori Lightfoot in her bid for reelection. Among them is Kam Buckner.

Eric Adams has been mayor of New York City for more than a year after campaigning to crack down on crime. Fox News Digital spoke with experts to assess his leadership.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, about the state's education department blocking an advanced placement high school course in African American studies.

New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers.

New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum-seekers, Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday, announcing the latest in a series of facilities the city has set up — and sometimes shut down — as it strains to handle an ongoing influx. The Brooklyn Cruise Terminal will have room, food, medical care and other services for 1,000 single men until it reverts to the cruise business in springtime, the mayor's office said in a release. “Our city is at its breaking point,” said Adams, a Democrat who has repeatedly pleaded for state and federal assistance to address the flow of asylum-seekers — some of them bused by out-of-state governors — to the nation's most populous city.

Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democrat National Committee, defended WH Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre from criticism in a tweet and compared her Job.

Greg Gutfeld reacted to the District of Columbia City Council voting to push through revisions of the district's criminal code that will soften penalties on violent crimes on "Gutfeld!"

For the third straight legislative session, state Rep. Jarvis Johnson, D-Houston, has filed a bill to end Confederate Heroes Day as a state holiday.

Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's new bill targeting White supremacy criminalizes hate speech, raising serious constitutionality questions about the legislation.

Abdul Wasi Safi is being held at a Texas detention center after he attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with his brother.

The Biden administration's plan to go through with a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey's is opposed by the Democratic chair of the Foreign Relations Committee.

MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell chided the network’s senior Capitol Hill correspondent, Garrett Haake, on Thursday for using the term “pro-life.”

Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams' Fair Fight Action group has been ordered to pay a quarter-million dollars in legal costs by a federal court in Georgia.

California Democrat Rep. Katie Porter's new Senate campaign may be impeded by accusations of racism and toxic work culture during her time as a Callifornia congresswoman.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it had reached a deal with the operator of a Kansas stretch of the Keystone pipeline following a December spill.

Denver has been overwhelmed by an unexpected surge in mostly Venezuelan migrants.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIn their desperate attempts to halt the New York attorney general from dealing a death blow to Donald Trump’s family business, the former president’s lawyers keep shopping the same failed arguments in states across the country. And judges are starting to call his legal team out for its bad-faith delay tactics.Trump’s latest failure in New York state court shows just how far his lawyers are willing to go to appease the former president—an

Congress has a long history of violence between lawmakers, and the 118th Congress nearly added to that history when Rep. Mike Rogers had to be restrained from Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Black Republicans are never just … Republicans.

The former candidate claims the county has failed to adequately probe polling location issues.

Casey, a Democrat, said he has an "excellent prognosis" and expects to continue his service in the 118th Congress.

Rep. Dan Bishop hit back at Cori Bush on Thursday after she said Black Republican Byron Donalds was a "prop" and accused him of upholding white supremacy.

Hidalgo is expected to be out of the country for about a week and likely will not participate in next Tuesday's meeting of the Harris County Commissioners Court, according to her deputy chief of staff.

Incoming U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia on Tuesday said he will take his oath of office, not on a Bible, but on a rare "Superman" comic book.

For those working outside the political world, ramifications for resume lies are often swift and absolute, labor experts say. Employees who get caught tend to get terminated immediately, said Amy Moor Gaylord, a labor employment attorney in Chicago who has been practicing for 25 years.

Senator-elect John Fetterman, D-Penn., has not given a single interview since his win in the 2022 midterm elections as questions swirl about his fitness for office.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, previously a Democrat, calls out Rep.-elect George Santos over his series of deception on Thursday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

Pretending to be independent in a partisan system won’t improve America’s politics. But more parties might.

We must either pick “amber waves of fascism” on the right, or “beautiful and spacious graves of socialism” on the left? Citizens must either love Donald Trump, love Joe Biden or get the heck out. Red tide and blue moon cannot be our only two options. “Promoting … illegal immigration”: Please tell us how the lack of adequate immigration laws through 3.5 administrations equates to promotion. “Tax-funded socialism … destroying our democracy”: Are Americans over 65 destroying America by taking advantage of government programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and legitimate welfare?

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin says he has a type of lymphoma that is a “serious but curable form of cancer” and he is beginning several months of treatment.

Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who served on the House Jan. 6 committee, says he's been diagnosed with lymphoma. He described it as "a serious but curable form of cancer" and said he would undergo chemo-immunotherapy.

President Biden and members of his family left Washington for the U.S. Virgin Islands on Tuesday, where they will vacation until Jan. 2.

"With democracy under attack all over the world ... it's good to know that we have a strong resurgent democratic spirit in America," Rep. Jamie Raskin said on "Face the Nation."

Republican Kari Lake has lost her legal challenge to the November gubernatorial election where Democrat Katie Hobbs was declared the winner but says she will appeal.

Kari Lake asked a judge to either declare her the winner or order a revote in a key county.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is among the scores of House Republicans who have criticized the $1.7 trillion package.

New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed for earmarks to be included in the House's omnibus package but was the only Democrat to vote against the measure.

A judge has thrown out Republican Abraham Hamadeh’s challenge of election results in his race against Democrat Kris Mayes for Arizona attorney general, concluding that Hamadeh didn’t prove the errors in vote counting that he had alleged. The ruling on Friday by Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen came after Hamadeh’s attorney, Tim La Sota, acknowledged his client hadn’t gained enough votes during his litigation to change the outcome of the race. Mayes finished 511 votes ahead of Hamadeh out of 2.5 million in one of the closest elections in state history.

The legislation would avert a shutdown and fund the government through most of 2023. It easily passed the House and is now awaiting Biden's signature.

Bobby Guerra filed a total of seven bills Tuesday that address health care, education and voter registration.

The Superintendent of Passaic Public Schools Sandra Montanez-Diodonet sent a letter to parents and staff Tuesday stating masks are required effective Dec. 21.

The Democrat-led House Ways and Means Committee voted to release some of former President Donald Trump's tax returns in the next few days.

Pennsylvania's Attorney General Kathleen Kane was acquitted Monday of drunken driving.

The Jan. 6 committee's crminal referral of Donald Trump comes as he seeks the 2024 GOP nomination for president, and as he faces two DOJ criminal probes.

D.C. neighborhood commissioner Denise Rucker Krepp sounded the alarm on a far-left criminal code bill after an armed carjacking took place in front of her home

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Sunday said that the Biden administration's border plan needs to address security issues as migrants continue to surge into the U.S.

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

Three seats were up for election in the Texas Supreme Court, which handles civil cases, and three in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Democrats haven’t been elected to either court since the late 1990s.

West Virginia's opioid crisis is transcending partisan politics as city council candidates from three different parties tackle the issue in the capital of Charleston.

The nine-member Texas Supreme Court has the power to make sweeping decisions that interpret the meaning of the state’s constitution, impacting the lives of Texans across the state. Three seats are on the ballot this year.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola received a hero’s welcome Thursday when the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress gave the keynote address at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage.

Dan Snyder's ownership of Washington's NFL franchise has been a matter of considerable debate for years.

New Mexico's governor has voided four pre-statehood proclamations that targeted Native Americans during what was a tumultuous time across the western frontier.

A new survey conducted by YouGov reveals national views on inflation, abortion, and teaching race and gender identity in schools

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials.

State Rep. Joe Moody rushed to the site of a mass shooting in his city in 2019, then warned House colleagues that it would happen again as they passed a permitless carry bill. Now he’s at the center of the investigation into the Uvalde massacre.

California's public health officer says officials are pressing for more vaccine and closely monitoring the spread of the monkeypox virus.

Leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred to explain the impact of potential legislation stripping the sport’s antitrust exemption from covering the sport’s relationship with minor league players.

We are counting down to Decision 2022 and several key races in Texas will be decided this November.

The University of Houston released on Wednesday results of an online survey that shows incumbent Texas Governor Greg Abbott with a narrow lead over Democrat contender Beto O'Rourke.

The executive director of the nonprofit Advocates for Minor Leaguers has recommended Congress enact legislation nullifying Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption as it applies to minor league players.

Companies that want to sell shampoo bottles, food products and other items wrapped in plastic in California will have to cut down their use of the material.

The Texas State Board of Education is fielding proposals to update the state’s public school social studies curriculum this summer.

The chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to an advocacy group for minor leaguers asking questions about baseball’s antitrust exemption.

U.S. Sen. Raphael G.

New Yorkers under age 21 will be prohibited from buying semiautomatic rifles under a new law signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

A Texas state senator says the commander at the scene of a school shooting in Texas was not informed of panicked 911 calls from inside the school building.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing back on the decision by the conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco to deny her Communion over her support of abortion rights.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland says he's home again after suffering a minor stroke.

Georgia's senior congressman is facing his toughest challenge from Republicans in more than a decade.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland says he has suffered a minor stroke and is being treated at George Washington University Hospital.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

Furious Senate Democrats are vowing to vote on legislation to protect abortion access for millions of Americans.

A Los Angeles protest over the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out Roe v.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is asking President Joe Biden to declare a disaster as firefighters scramble to clear brush, build fire lines and spray water to keep the largest blaze burning in the U.S. from destroying more homes.

Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s legal team is now sharing more into the criminal investigation of a nearly $11-million dollar COVID contract by the Texas Rangers and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Projects show that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left Social Democrats are headed for a clear election win in a western state that their conservative rivals have led since 1999.

The South Texas Democrat announced last year that he wouldn’t seek reelection. He’s leaving early to take a job at a law firm.

Farmworkers in Oregon would earn overtime pay for the first time in the state under a bill that the Legislature has approved.

The U.S. Senate is launching a bipartisan working group of lawmakers to scrutinize conditions within the Bureau of Prisons following reporting by The Associated Press that uncovered widespread corruption and abuse in federal prisons.

West Virginia’s only Black female lawmaker has filed a lawsuit alleging harassment and intimidation.

Federal prosecutors say a Hawaii state senator and a state representative took bribes including cash, hotel rooms and casino chips in exchange for shaping legislation that would benefit a company involved in publicly financed cesspool conversion projects.

The House has approved legislation financing federal agencies for another month.

There was something fishy about New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ declarations that he’s a vegan.

Manhattan’s district attorney is trying to blunt questions about his commitment to prosecuting armed robbery and assaults on police.

FBI agents have conducted a search near U_S_ Rep_ Henry Cuellar's home in Texas as they conducted what an FBI spokeswoman called “court-authorized law enforcement activity.”.

The two-term Republican governor likely faces off against a Democratic challenger. Watch as we go behind the scenes.

Luther became nationally known at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 when she refused to shut down her Dallas salon in defiance of emergency orders. She was sentenced to a week in jail but was released after only a few days.

Legislative leaders overseeing the Texas Military Department say they are looking into reports of suicides, habitual pay problems and poor working conditions on Gov. Greg Abbott's highly touted border mission.

Here are things to know for Wednesday, Jan. 5: