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FOX 24 US The Broadview Six case didn’t collapse at once. Over the last few months, the case slowly crumbled, piece by piece, with federal prosecutors trying — and eventually failing — to salvage it. The end result was that after months of fighting and chipping away, the tables have been turned on Chicago federal prosecutors in the case. The judge encouraged the defendants to pursue a claim of vindictive prosecution; the case has now devolved into a long referendum on how far alleged instances of prosecutorial wrongdoing may have gone and who knew what, when. Much of that process, attorneys involved…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a small North Carolina startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.  The president’s eldest son said through a spokesperson that he wasn’t involved. The Pentagon said Trump Jr. played no role in the record-setting deal. And the startup’s founder told reporters that his company, Vulcan Elements, received no political favoritism. But interviews and Defense Department records reviewed by…

FOX 24 US A Trump-appointed federal judge ruled early Thursday morning that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and civil rights groups lack standing to block an executive order that seeks to create a federal voter list and restrict mail-in voting.  “Given that the Executive Order does not command Plaintiffs to do anything, and that no agency has yet acted pursuant to the Order in a way that could harm Plaintiffs, they have not suffered any harm at present, much less harm that is ‘certain,’ ‘great,’ and imminent,” wrote Carl John Nichols, a district court judge for the District of Columbia. …

FOX 24 US The Republican primary runoff ran for the open Texas Railroad Commissioner position was too close to call as of Wednesday morning, with extremist candidate Bo French leading the incumbent by less than 15,000 votes, according to the Associated Press’ unofficial tally of returns. Whoever wins will face Democratic nominee Jon Rosenthal and Libertarian candidate Arthur DiBianca in November. The runoff primary race pitted French against Jim Wright, the incumbent chairman and a longtime figure in Texas’ oil and gas sector. With 95 percent of the vote in on Wednesday morning, French was leading the incumbent with 50.6%…

FOX 24 US Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday in a Republican runoff election for the Texas Senate seat. The Associated Press called the race for Paxton around 9:00 p.m. ET, after Paxton secured 62.6 percent of the vote compared to Cornyn’s 37.4 percent.  Paxton received a last-minute endorsement from President Donald Trump, making him the favorite in the race after months of polling that put him neck-and-neck with Cornyn. In a March primary, Cornyn got 42 percent of the vote to Paxton’s 40, which sent the race to a runoff. It’s been…

FOX 24 US Alabama immediately appealed a lower court decision blocking it from using a racially discriminatory map Tuesday, hoping that the Supreme Court will overturn that ruling and allow it to use a map with only one Black-majority district for the 2026 midterms. The lower court had reaffirmed its own finding from 2022 — that the map’s dilution of Black voters violated the Constitution — and found anew that the map additionally violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, even under the new, difficult standard established by the Louisiana v. Callais decision.  Instead, the court wrote, Alabama should hold…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past three months, four women have been fired or resigned.  The first to go, on March 5, was ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Then, less than a month later, Trump ousted former Attorney General Pam Bondi. On April 20,  embattled Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer announced her resignation. The latest…

FOX 24 US A panel of lower court judges issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking Alabama from using a map it had previously found to be unconstitutional. “Ultimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast theirvotes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-baseddiscrimination,” the judges wrote. The Supreme Court had previously lifted a separate injunction on this map, freeing Alabama up to try to use it for the midterms. It only includes one Black-majority district. Alabama will likely go back to the high court to try to undo Tuesday’s order.  While…

FOX 24 US FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A swanky stockyards-themed venue in this Texas city hosted a far-right politician whose candidacy for a top state oil regulator position asks a simple question: is racist posturing enough to win an election?  Far-right figures in attendance helped set the scene. Kyle Rittenhouse, Ken Paxton, Brandon Herrera, and an influencer called “MAGA Barbie” all milled around at Bo French’s launch party in early April for his runoff campaign for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission. It’s a powerful role that oversees the Texas oil and gas industry.  French will face off against Republican…

FOX 24 US Antifascists were fighting with their far-right rivals. An anti-immigrant group with surging membership took to the streets and clashed with the police. And a member of the Trump family was at the center of it all.  The year was 1927.  On Memorial Day, 99 years ago, the celebrations in New York City turned violent. The chaotic scenes, which involved the Ku Klux Klan rioting in Queens and black-clad Fascists who stormed Times Square after shots were fired by their antifascist rivals in the Bronx received renewed attention during President Donald Trump’s two White House bids. And the…