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Texas lawmakers filed hundreds of bills before the next session starts in January, including one to take cell phones out of students hands across the state. The cryptocurrency industry put lots of money into the election, so what does the industry want in return? Plus voting problems during the 2024 election.

Dr. Mehmet Oz hosted a long-running television show before pivoting to politics.

Many Senate Republicans want the House Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz to be released. Gaetz is a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump.

The House speaker Johnson told “Fox News Sunday” that “we’ll have to see how this develops” when asked whether he’d let Trump bypass the usual Senate confirmation process.

Matt Gaetz is president-elect Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. attorney general.

Kennedy is Trump’s pick for health secretary, but he has a history of spreading misinformation about a range of issues.

Some caution that putting South Carolina to the back of the line-up could alienate Black voters.

Johnson said that it would be a “terrible breach of protocol” if the committee released the report on Gaetz, who resigned from the House this week.

Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins is a former member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve Command who fought in the Iraq War.

Here are five things to know about North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum.

President-elect Donald Trump continues to name people to major positions in his new administration. Late Thursday afternoon, we learned that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump’s appointments set up a conflict over checks and balances to come in D.C. NBC 5’s Phil Prazan has the details.

The Dallas City Council voted Wednesday to repeal a portion of a 1988 ordinance that provided the language used by a group in a police-centered charter amendment that Dallas voters narrowly approved last week.

Dallas voters said yes to pot, more police and the ability to sue the city if it doesn’t follow its own charter. NBC 5’s David Goins reports city leaders are trying to figure out how to implement all three amendments, even as they conflict with one another.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Stephen Miller as his deputy chief of staff for policy at the White House, a source with knowledge of the transition team’s plans said Monday, NBC News reports.

Here are five things to know about former police officer and immigration officer Tom Homan.

Arab and Muslim voters moved away from the Democratic Party this year in ways that led some community leaders to warn of a lasting shift from a voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic for two decades since it abandoned the GOP, NBC News reports.

Wiles will be the first ever female White House chief of staff.

Subsidies to buy insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces are set to expire at the end of 2025. If they’re not extended, coverage could become unaffordable for many.

Tens of thousands of Americans are looking into moving abroad after Donald Trump’s historic presidential reelection.

Donald Trump’s federal criminal cases likely will be dismissed now that he has been elected president, while his state criminal cases could at the least be frozen until after he leaves office.