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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday came to the rescue of Texas Republicans, allowing next year’s elections to be held under the state’s congressional redistricting plan favorable to the GOP and pushed by President Donald Trump despite a lower-court ruling that the map likely discriminates on the basis of race. The justices acted on an emergency request from Texas for quick action because qualifying in the new districts […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court panel ordered new wording Thursday for a ballot measure seeking to roll back abortion rights in the state, ruling that voters must be told the amendment would repeal “reproductive healthcare rights” they approved just one year ago. The ruling marks the latest twist in a lengthy battle over Missouri’s abortion laws, which have fluctuated from restrictive to permissive since the U.S. […]

Washington (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly. “They’re going to get upset about things. That’s part of the process,” Johnson told reporters Thursday. “It doesn’t bother me. But when there is a conflict or concern, I always ask all members to come to me, don’t go to social media.” Increasingly, they’re […]

MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — On a jagged coastline in Central California, brown pelicans gather on rock promontories, packed in like edgy commuters as they take flight to feed on a vast school of fish just offshore. The water churns in whitecaps as the big-billed birds plunge beneath the surface in search of northern anchovies, Pacific sardines and mackerel. If awkward and wobbly in appearance on land, they are graceful […]

‘This Winter Will Be the Most Dangerous’: Desert Smugglers Drive Syria’s Captagon Surge Smugglers exploit fog, dust storms, and Syria’s security vacuum along the Jordanian frontier to move stockpiled Captagon that now functions as hard currency in a collapsed economy By Ahmad Qwaider and Jacob Wirtschafter / The Media Line On November 17, 2025, at 2 p.m., a young Syrian man on a motorcycle stopped on a bridge along the […]

Israel Confirms Return of Thai Hostage’s Remains as Search Continues for Final Deceased Captive   By The Media Line Staff   Israel confirmed on Thursday that the body returned from Gaza earlier this week belonged to Thai farm worker Sutthisak Rinthalak, who was killed during the October 7 attacks and taken into Gaza by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Officials released the announcement after forensic teams completed their examination at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine.   […]

By Angelica Medina Dec 4 (Reuters) – The National Football League unveiled sweeping new mandatory field standards on Thursday that will require all 32 teams to select from a list of approved surfaces starting in 2026, with existing turf needing to be replaced by the end of the 2027 season. The initiative represents the league’s most significant step toward standardising playing conditions across its stadiums, addressing long-standing concerns about field […]

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Canada and Mexico should not be used as export hubs for China, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Thursday, saying that this was already happening in some cases in Mexico. Greer told a conference in Washington that there were problems with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that he had helped negotiate during President Donald Trump’s first term, but some measures […]

SIGAR Watchdog Final Report: 2 Decades, $145 Billion, and a Failed US Bid To Rebuild Afghanistan   By Arshad Mehmood/The Media Line Staff   The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported on Wednesday that “close to $30 billion in US funds were wasted, stolen, or mismanaged,” during nearly 20 years of American involvement.   In its final forensic report summarizing US reconstruction in Afghanistan, SIGAR said it had documented 1,327 instances of waste, fraud, and abuse from 2002 to 2021, amounting to between $26 billion and $29.2 billion—most of […]