Capitol physician linked Mitch McConnell's two freezing episodes to 'lightheadedness' from a months-old concussion

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., center, joined by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, holds a news conference at the Capitol after President Donald Trump overruled congressional Republicans

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Texas is about to shut down an election office in a heavily Democratic county that includes Houston less than two months before the city's mayoral election

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Election administration offices in Texas' Harris County, home to Houston, will soon close after a challenge from state Republicans.

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McConnell freezes again, raising concern for the 81-year-old Senator's health

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Mitch McConnell appeared confused and disoriented when he froze during a press conference in Kentucky. The episode was similar to a July 26 incident in which the Senator also struggled to answer reporters' questions and was escorted out by aides.

Trump rambled so much in a NY fraud-case deposition, a lawyer griped, 'we're going to be here until midnight'

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Trump rambled on in a New York deposition, and lawyers took note.

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Forget the Deep State. Trump is at war with the whole state

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Trump's attacks have shifted to the surface state — the state itself. He's going after prosecutors, judges, grand juries, and state officials.

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A Texas judge has declared unconstitutional a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott that limits the power of Democratic-led cities

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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed the bill into law in June.

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Donald Trump's latest arrest and no-show at the GOP debate just made voters want him more

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Donald Trump — seen here waving to people at the Iowa State Fair — is only getting more popular with GOP voters, a new poll found

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Clarence Thomas says he flew on private jets because of safety concerns after the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked

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Harlan Crow appears throughout Clarence Thomas' 2022 financial disclosure after the Supreme Court justice never mentions gifts and vacations for years

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Texas billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow is seen here in 2015.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, 'disaster vultures' are swooping in to make a quick buck

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Disaster vultures are investors who take advantage of people who lost their homes to natural disasters in order to turn a profit.

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As Hawaii mourns its dead, investors are swooping in to make a quick buck

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