This article will appear in the January 2026 issue of Texas Monthly with the headline “The Last Temptation of James Talarico.

A rumor circulating online in December 2025 claimed that throughout 2025, and specifically on Dec. 8, U.S. President Donald ...

Futures for Frontliners scholarship, launched during pandemic, is wrapping up with 6K graduates so far, 1 in 4 who enrolled, which is significantly below the national average ...

Cars filled the small parking lot outside of Milwaukee’s Cross Lutheran Church on a recent Monday afternoon. The church’s pews sat empty, but downstairs visitors waited around folding tables. Not to ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) assertion that a bill to expand Russian sanctions would start in the House came as a surprise to him, countering the ...

Discharge petitions that bypass the Speaker’s control of the House were once rare. But they’re becoming common under Johnson.

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Tuesday tore into Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), accusing him of “torpedoing” the Republican agenda by blocking a provision in the must-pass defense bill that requires ...

A new headache is emerging for House Speaker Mike Johnson. For years, GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress, had been trying to pass legislation in ...

A Texas company is planning to set up shop in Lawrence County, Ohio, and bring with them a new take on economic development using artificial intelligence. Former officer who killed Tamir Rice fired ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Kanawha County woman convicted of first-degree murder could spend the rest of her life behind bars following her sentencing. Virginia Smith received a life sentence with mercy ...

Born JoAnne Deborah Byron in 1947 into a family of strivers in Queens, she split her time between her mother’s home in New ...