FBI Director Kash Patel has approved his request for the bureau to assist in locating Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a GOP-backed mid-decade redistricting plan, though no agents have yet been deployed, according to Senator John Cornyn on 7 August.
This sharp move signals escalating tensions in an already volatile political showdown.
More than 50 Texas Democrats left for states such as Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts to deny the legislature a quorum required to pass a plan that could deliver up to five additional GOP seats in Congress.
Cornyn claimed these actions may constitute bribery or public corruption, citing funds received to support their absence, but experts say without criminal charges, there's no legal basis for FBI involvement.
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called the request “grandstanding,” noting that federal agents have no authority to arrest lawmakers in his state.
No FBI activity has been reported where the Texas lawmakers are staying.
Meanwhile, Texas GOP leaders have issued civil arrest warrants, imposed hefty daily fines, and even filed to remove Democratic lawmakers from office, even though such warrants are non-enforceable outside Texas.
Governors and AGs’ attempts to punish the walkout raise serious concerns about weaponising legal tools for political gain.
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Disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has increased the strategic importance of Bab al-Mandab, raising fears that instability in both waterways could trigger a wider global energy and trade crisis.
Flights at Catania airport in Sicily will remain suspended until early Friday as ash from Mount Etna continues to disrupt air travel, following hundreds of cancellations and diversions over the past week.
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz remains under its control, rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim of “total control” over the strategic waterway and insisting it will not reopen until Washington fulfils its commitments under an interim deal.
Iran and the United States remain at loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source who said there had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a timeframe to implement it.
Russia has accused Ukraine of threatening global grain supplies after recent strikes on Black Sea agricultural infrastructure, while Moscow carried out a new overnight attack on Ukraine’s major Danube port of Izmail.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province. A man died of the virus in Bas-Uélé in the north, the African Union’s health agency said.
President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Navy to abandon its next planned electromagnetic aircraft launch system and return to steam-powered catapults on a future aircraft carrier, while also authorising limited overseas ship construction to help address naval capacity shortfalls.
A diplomatic dispute has erupted between Cuba and the Dominican Republic after Santo Domingo ordered the withdrawal of several Cuban diplomats and their family members, prompting a sharp response from Havana.
Brazil has taken the first formal step towards potential retaliatory action against the United States following the Trump administration's decision to impose new tariffs on Brazilian exports, signalling a further deterioration in relations between the two countries.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that reports about poor conditions aboard aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East were "completely misrepresented."
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