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2021 Big Tex Choice Awards Food Competition Semi-Finalists Named The State Fair of Texas is back in 2021.  September 24 - October 17, you can make your plans and buy your tickets to be part of one of the most time-honored traditions in the Lone State State. There are so many attractions every year at the State Fair of Texas, but food is definitely one of the cornerstones. The concessionaires always bring tasty and sometimes very unique creations to fair attendees. With that being said, the concessionaires are officially off to the races with the 17th Annual Big Tex® Choice Awards. The conte...

Tucker Carlson Lashes Out At NSA “Lies” As Intel Agency Denies Spying On Fox News Host Deadline 5 hrs ago © AP The National Security Agency has given Tucker Carlson a lesson in spycraft and fake news. One which looks certain to crank up the volume in the now war of words, real and imagined. In a rare social media rebuke, the agency shot down the Fox News Channel host’s recent self-described “shocking claim” that he and his primetime show were caught in an intelligence web. More from Deadline Just now Carlson on-air called the NSA’s comments “an infuriating dishonest formal s...

J. Scott Applewhite / AP Originally published on June 15, 2021 4:58 pm A group of Democratic Texas state lawmakers is in Washington, D.C., this week meeting with congressional Democrats and Vice President Harris as part of a broader effort to pressure those in their party to pass far-reaching voting rights and election reform legislation. The Texas lawmakers met Tuesday with staff of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key opponent of the bill, called the For the People Act. Manchin himself did not attend. "I think they heard us," Texas state Rep. Jasmine Crockett told reporters, referring to ...

J. Scott Applewhite/AP toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is flanked by Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer left, and Texas Sen. Carol Alvarado of Houston, right, as he meets with Texas Democratic lawmakers to discuss voting rights Tuesday on Capitol Hill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP A group of Democratic Texas state lawmakers is in Washington, D.C., this week meeting with congressional Democrats and Vice President Harris as part of a broader effort to pressure those in their party to pass far-reaching voting rig...