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Earlier this year, a super PAC supporting Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton received four checks totaling over $1 million from an organization called Preserve Texas, Inc. 

Preserve Texas is not registered as a political committee and has not filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission that could reveal where the money came from. Instead, it is a Virginia-based nonprofit, incorporated by John Plishka, the treasurer for Paxton's Senate campaign, according to corporate documents filed in Virginia.  Click here for the full story.  

Click here to read about how when Republican lawmakers secured cuts to the United States' largest food assistance program last year, Paige Shoemaker DeMio wasn't worried about children going hungry just at home — but at school.  "Anytime we're hearing about cuts to SNAP or Medicaid, we're worried about what's going to be the domino effect of this," she says.

Click here to read about how  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" "effective immediately" amid the ongoing trade war between the United States and Canada. 

Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued Bengal tigers, mandrills, hyenas and even a camel during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the 

Mexican authorities regularly rescue exotic animals from properties owned by wealthy drug traffickers. Some Mexican drug cartels are known to house exotic cats as symbols of power and, occasionally, to dispose of their enemies.  According to a 2023 U.S. indictment, some victims of a Sinaloa cartel faction were "fed dead or alive to tigers."  Click here for more on this story.  

Click here to see a great video and read about how the Post Office under the proposed change, states would be required to collect and report basic voter information, like a voter's name and home address, attached to a unique barcode on every mail-in ballot distributed. 

Two Phoenix police officers were fired and arrested after an unreported traffic stop in which they assaulted a man and woman and shocked them with a Taser, the city's police chief said.

Officers Antonio Felix and Luis Vasquez were arrested on charges including aggravated assault and kidnapping,  Click here for more on this story.  

Click here to read about how attorneys for former Olympian David Hearn, whose Reflecting Pool vandalism case was dropped by the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, say President Trump is still pushing a "false version" of the events. 

Upon arrival to a medical appointment was summoned to the clinic's financial office and told he had to make a $5,000 preservice deposit, because Mayo had since determined it did not accept his insurance. He was automatically designated "self-pay," even though his plan had out-of-network benefits.  Not having that kind of cash on hand — and angry on principle — he refused. His appointment was canceled.  This is happening more and more across healthcare networks.  For more on this story, click here.

Click here to read about how a petition to declare U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra "persona non grata" and have him removed from his post had received more than 104,000 signatures as of Thursday.