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Texas holds the top spot in the USA Today preseason coaches football poll released on Monday. The Longhorns received 28 of the 67 first-place votes. Defending national champion Ohio State is No. 2 after receiving 20 first-place votes and the Buckeyes are followed by No. 3 Penn State, No. 4 Georgia and No. 5 Notre Dame. Texas leads nine Southeastern …

Texas opens season No. 1 in Coaches Poll for first time in program history  247Sports Longhorns, Buckeyes top preseason coaches’ poll  ESPN Coaches Poll top 25 reactions: Michigan overrated, Clemson underrated in preseason college football rankings  CBS Sports The preseason USA Today Coaches Poll has arrived. Here’s where LSU football stands.  NOLA.com Texas tops preseason college football US LBM Coaches Poll. Odds are against …

The Big Board has found a home in Dallas, and someone to run it. The New York Stock Exchange-Texas will move into the historic Old Parkland office campus in Oak Lawn, the world’s largest exchange announced on Monday. With a signed lease in hand, the Big Board’s local branch is expected to open at the location in 2026, the NYSE …

The coaches have weighed in on “who should start where” as the college football season opens, with Texas, Ohio State, Penn State, Georgia and Notre Dame filling the top five spots in the coaches’ preseason top 25 poll released Monday. It likely will not stay that way for long, as the No. 1 Longhorns will visit the No. 2 Buckeyes …

The Illinois governor, JB Pritzker, has vowed to protect the Democratic members of the Texas house of representatives who left the state in an attempt to block Republican efforts to redraw Texas’s congressional maps. “We’re going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them and make sure that – ’cause we know they’re doing the right …

Democratic state legislators fled Texas on Sunday in an attempt to deny a quorum to Republicans hoping to vote on a new congressional map that heavily favors the GOP even more than current districts.  “For two weeks, while families in the Hill Country mourned the loss of over 130 Texans in catastrophic floods, Democrats fought to make their relief the …

Abbott threatens to try to expel Democrats who fled Texas, escalating tensions  The Washington Post Texas House Democrats flee to Chicago to avoid redistricting vote  Fox News Democrats flee Texas to block Republican redistricting map backed by Trump  BBC Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting  NBC News Greg Abbott Threatens to Expel, and Possibly Arrest, Dems Who Fled …

Facebook Tweet Email Link The brazen partisan redistricting underway in Texas, with Republicans attempting to entrench themselves in office and Democrats weighing a counter-offensive in blue states, was greenlit by the US Supreme Court six years ago. Chief Justice John Roberts, in an opinion for a 5-4 court, declared that federal judges could not review extreme partisan gerrymanders to determine …

Getty Images Gene Wu, a Democratic state lawmaker in Houston, says he and others are “walking out on a rigged system”. Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas to try to stop a vote on a new congressional map that would heavily favour Republicans. The proposed redistricting – unveiled by Texas’s majority Republicans last week and backed by President Donald Trump …

Texas governor threatens to remove Democrats who left state over Trump-backed redistricting Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I am Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with the news that Republican Texas governor Greg Abbott has said he will begin trying to remove …