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How does the U.S. news media treat invasions conducted by hostile nations compared to those conducted by American forces? To answer this question Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) studied a month’s worth of the New York Times’ coverage early on in the Ukraine invasion and a comparable month’s coverage of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Their findings? That the Times paid much more attention to the Ukraine War, and highlighted civilian casualties in Ukraine far more than the paper did for the Iraq War – this even though the United States was a direct combatant in the...

LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is expected to fend off a challenge on Tuesday from fellow Republican George P. Bush in a primary run-off election that has pitted a Trump ally against the scion of two former U.S. presidents. Paxton has consistently led in polling in his re-election bid for a third term, though surveys have tightened in recent weeks. He beat out Bush, the state's land commissioner, for former President Donald Trump's endorsement, despite a longstanding securities fraud indictment and other legal woes. The Bush family name was once all-powerful in Texas politics. George P....