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Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke is planning a bid to unseat Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in 2022, according to a report.

The news comes on the heels of new polling that shows increasing support among likely voters for an O'Rourke run — with numbers from a Dallas Morning News survey showing that Abbott's hard-right turn in recent months has turned off voters in the state. O'Rourke has narrowed the polling gap to 37%-42%, up from 33%-45% in the same poll earlier this summer.

Physician's assistant Nick Lawyer says that he was forced to resign from his position as the Sanders County health official after a man blamed him for his wife's death, revealed CBS News reporter David Begnaud.

According to Lawyer, the man is claiming that his wife was denied Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine and antibodies before she died from COVID-19.

After the right-wing ginned-up outrage over fake controversy "critical race theory," one Texas school has banned a children's book about Rosa Parks.

During the debate over CRT, many argued that the racist policies banned teaching civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and others, but the outrage was so insistent that the censorship laws were passed anyway.

Convicted Russian agent Maria Butina has been elected to the lower house of Parliament in her home country but not in her home city.

BusinessInsider reported Sunday that Butina was elected to represent the rural region of Kirov Oblast, about 2,700 miles from her hometown Barnaul, Altai Krai. When she was just 19, she served on the public council of Altai Krai.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is fighting subpoenas for depositions from Surgeon General Dr. Scott Rivkees in the lawsuit with school boards over mask mandates. The challenge, in this case, is that the Health Department overstepped its authority when it issued an emergency rule banning masks in schools.

According to the Miami Herald, Florida Department of Health lawyers are trying to block the deposition from the doctor, who has been mum on the mask issue as COVID-19 ravages the state.

A horrifying video was just released showing a San Antonio Police Department detective dragging a Black man down the street while handcuffed, reported KSAT News.

The department released a statement saying that they had suspended Det. David Pantoja for 20 days and he's already back to work. The incident happened just after 3 p.m. on Jan. 30 and the investigation took six months.

A new PRRI poll finds that just 29 percent of Americans believe that the election was stolen, proving that the group of people who believe the so-called "big lie" is rapidly shrinking.

Yet, that polling statistic comes just as Pennsylvania Republicans voted to allow a right-linked company to "audit" the 2020 election in the state. That likely comes from the statistic that 71 percent of Republicans believe the lie, while Democrats and Independents do not.

A court has partially revived a defamation lawsuit filed by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) against reporter Ryan Lizza, who claimed in an Esquire piece that the congressman's family had abandoned California for Iowa. Nunes claims to be a dairy farmer but was accused by critics of being a "fake farmer" because the family dairy was gone. Nunes then bought a farm.

Several legal experts said the ruling was unusual.

Lawyer Daniel Uhlfelder, better known as the beach Grim Reaper, was one of those who sued Gov. Ron DeSantis during the 2020 season for relaxing the lockdown to ensure tourism. When DeSantis refused to close beaches, Uhlfelder dressed up as the Reaper and went walking through sands as a reminder to folks that they were endangering lives.

Uhlfelder took DeSantis to court which was dismissed, but the three-judge panel on the First District Court of Appeal took things a step further seeking to punish the lawyer for the lawsuit. Earlier this week, the Orlando Sentinel accused the court of playing favorites, citing a slew of cases against city ordinances by state Rep. Anthony Sabatini.

John Durham, a special counsel appointed near the end of the Trump administration, has been investigating any impropriety around Robert Mueller's investigation. Mueller probed whether Trump colluded with Russia and it resulted in 34 indictments and cited at least ten incidents in which Trump potentially obstructed justice.

The end of Durham's investigation is coming up this weekend, due to a statute of limitations, but so far Durham hasn't been able to find much of anything. The New York Times reported this week that the only thing he could find is suspicion that a lawyer lied to the FBI.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is demanding an investigation into the FBI after it was revealed that there were 4500 complaints filed against then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh that went ignored and were merely handed over to the White House.

The Guardian reported that the FBI claimed they didn't have the authority to investigate Kavanaugh during his nomination process. It comes while the FBI is facing demands of a probe into how it mishandled allegations that Dr. Larry Nasser was molesting and raping Olympic gymnasts.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced that his office will investigate the Aurora Police Department after a pattern emerged showing officers exhibited racially biased policing, according to a statement from the AG's office.

Last year, Colorado passed a law giving the attorney general the authority to investigate any government agency if it violates state or federal constitutions or laws. Weiser is now using that legislation to move forward with a probe into the police department after Elijah McClain was tackled to the ground by police while walking home from the grocery store.

Reporters hammered Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby about the recent revelations in the book "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Bob Costa. According to the book, Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley spoke to his Chinese counterpart, trying to calm any fears that former President Donald Trump would start a nuclear war with them.

Over and over Kirby explained to reporters on Wednesday that he wasn't in the Pentagon when this was happening, he doesn't work with the people who were there at the time and, even now, he doesn't know the specifics outlined in the book because he hasn't read it. All of these alleged events happened in the final month of the Trump administration and it happened even after Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.