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Lockheed Martin’s deal to sell a new round of F-35s at a reduced cost to the Pentagon had little to do with President Donald Trump despite the commander in chief’s boasts to the...
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“Some people call it alternative facts, I call it just flat-out exaggeration,” said Rep. Marc Veasey, a Fort Worth Democrat who supports the F-35 program.
Cody Edwards thought he had landed his dream job. The Irving man was so excited to move to Port Aransas on New Year’s Eve with his pregnant wife to start a new job at the Padre Island National Seashore, also known as PINS, on Jan. 8.
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WASHINGTON — When Christin Davis, an acting instructor in Austin, decided to contact her senators for the first time, she was excited and nervous. She wrote out a script for her message, opposing President Donald Trump’s executive order banning Syrian refugees, on a note card so she wouldn’t make any mistakes.
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Rep. Brendan Boyle thinks all the Republicans who are telling him privately that the new White House is “absolutely crazy, and that [Donald] Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing” should be ashamed of themselves for not saying it publicly.
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and halting the country’s acceptance of refugees.
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The positive reaction from Texas Republicans to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old member of a Denver-based appeals court, was swift and strong.
Thirteen people detained at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport under an executive order signed Friday by President Donald Trump had all been released by Sunday evening. It appears that a...
Republican members of Congress from Texas’ Tarrant County did not break with Donald Trump’s executive order banning refugees from seven majority Muslim countries on Sunday, either...
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In contrast, North Texas Democratic Reps. Marc Veasey and Eddie Bernice Johnson oppose Trump’s order. Veasey traveled to the Dallas-Fort Worth airport on Saturday night to join the protests.
WASHINGTON – Since Saturday evening, chants of “let them go,” “free their grandma” and “refugees are welcome here” have loudly echoed down the hallways of Terminal D at DFW International Airport and other major airports around the country.
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WASHINGTON — A lone Republican, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd of Helotes, joined a handful of the Texas delegation's Democrats in challenging President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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