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FOX 24 US The widening rift between the haves and the have-nots continues to be borne out in federal data, as a Thursday Bureau of Labor Statistics report revealed U.S. workers are doing more and reaping less. Workers are earning record low wages and other compensation compared to their labor output, according to the BLS productivity and costs report published Thursday. Called the “labor share,” this indicator essentially measures how much of the nation’s economic earnings is used to pay wages and other worker benefits.  At 54.1%, workers are netting the lowest earnings compared to the income they’re producing since…

FOX 24 US DALLAS – For this city’s Republican Party, the 2026 primaries were supposed to set a national example. Led by Col. Allen West, the party wanted to run the election as purely as it could: no electronic voting machines. A full hand count. For West, the timing was crucial. He told officials that the state was changing, per the minutes of a November party meeting reviewed by TPM. “Texas is no longer a Hard RED state. The five largest urban population centers in Texas are no longer RED,” West lamented, according to the document. “We must remain vigilant against…

FOX 24 US Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent left-wing extremists,” “extreme transgender ideologies,” and “violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.” As with much that comes out of the Trump administration, the messenger needs to be taken into account with the message. At a press briefing on Wednesday, Gorka replied to a question about what impact the Iran war might have on terrorist threats by calling critics of the war “testicularly challenged,” describing it as a “low-T approach to threats to the United States.” Low-T refers to low…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For almost half a century, the vast majority of climate experts have agreed on a solution to global warming: stop burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. But despite the political efforts of governments across the world to promote replacing these fuels, fossil sources have remained a stubbornly large share of global energy — around 80 percent at last count. But the war in Iran, which the United States and Israel launched two months ago this week, may turn out to…

FOX 24 US In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s redistricting failure in Indiana, he vowed political retribution against Republican state senators who refused to cave to his pressure to gerrymander maps in their state. The results of Tuesday’s primaries in Indiana show Indiana voters may still be influenced by Trump’s rhetoric and his broader campaign to gerrymander maps ahead of the midterms.  Trump endorsed primary challengers against seven different incumbent Republican candidates in Indiana’s state Senate primary races on Tuesday night. The Trump-backed challengers won in at least five of those races, as of this publishing Tuesday evening. Following…

FOX 24 US After notching a generational victory in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protection of abortion, anti-abortion activists took aim at their next biggest villain: mifepristone.  The movement has smeared the drug for decades, successfully larding it up with medically unnecessary restrictions. The Biden administration eliminated some of those obstacles, allowing the medication to be prescribed over telehealth and mailed to patients — all the more critical in a post-Dobbs landscape where many red states have outlawed abortion and shuttered any remaining clinics. On Friday, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel…

FOX 24 US Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees released their respective reconciliation bills Monday night, setting congressional Republicans up to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with billions of dollars for the next three years. Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation plan comes after Democrats refused to fund ICE and CBP for the fiscal year 2026, calling for meaningful reforms to be implemented affecting immigration enforcement agents following the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE agents.   Under Senate rules, reconciliation bills — meant for budgetary purposes…

FOX 24 US In the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling this week that struck down Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana v. Callais and dealt a devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act, limiting the use of consideration of race in future maps, Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended this month’s already-active congressional primary election to give lawmakers time to pass new gerrymandered maps ahead of the midterms.  Over 100,000 mail-in ballots have already been sent out and absentee ballots have already been cast for the state’s primary congressional election, which was set to take place on…

FOX 24 US The Trump administration is trying to wriggle out of a legal requirement to end its war with Iran, experts told TPM — and to do so, it’s trying to convince everyone to focus on the wrong thing. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed before Congress Thursday that the administration’s ceasefire with Iran stops the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock. White House officials have echoed that line of thinking in statements to the press. But Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer and senior adviser in the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group, told TPM that the…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Meet Barbara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew his nomination of Casey Means, a wellness influencer, for surgeon general after key Senate Republicans declined to support her. Means, a doctor without an active medical license, had been poised to elevate Trump’s vague but politically potent message to “Make America Healthy Again” and alternative forms of medicine. Pulling her nomination represents a defeat for the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,…