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Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) suggested she’s considering a run for Senate following a GOP-led redraw of the state’s congressional districts. She’ll have to decide whether to run in a new district, since her Dallas-based district will cease to exist. Republicans. believe a Paxton victory(primary) would give Democrats a shot at winning the seat in a midterm year where the political environment is likely to favor them.

The New York Times piece said Fetterman 'may have set himself back permanently' by campaigning instead of resting after his stroke ----------------------------------- On Friday, the New York Times released an article, titled "Fetterman, Recovering After Stroke, Labors to Adjust to Life in the Senate," detailing his struggles with quotes from senators and staff, with the admission that the campaign set back his stroke recovery. "But his adjustment to serving in the Senate has been made vastly more difficult by the strains of his recovery, which left him with a physical impairment and serious mental health challenges that have rendered the...

Among children in foster care, minorities are in the majority. Disproportionate numbers of black and Hispanic households are referred to foster-care officials, are investigated for abuse and have complaints against them upheld by investigators. Such intuitively obvious facts, gleaned from a recent federal report, are not only news to The Hartford Courant, they're the stuff of banner, front-page headlines. And according to the state Department of Children and its attendant special interests, racism — what else? — is behind these imbalances. To try to reverse them, the DCF spent two years and lots of money developing and implementing a plan...