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Twenty-three candidates filed to run in the May 1 special election for Texas’ 6th District.

The attorney for Michael F. Egan III, the man who is suing "X-Men" director Bryan Singer for sexual abuse, says that there is more legal action coming -- not just in Hawaii, where the first lawsuit against Singer was filed, but potentially also b...

Special election set for May 1; widow of Rep. Ron Wright joins race Waxahachie Daily Light What has promised to be a heated race for an open U.S. House seat grew even hotter last week with the entrance of both the local Texas House representative and the widow of the former officeholder. Entering the race on Friday was Texas House District 10 first-term Rep. Jake Ellzey of Midlothian, who had previously run for the seat in 2018, losing to Ron Wright in a runoff in the Republican primary. Ellzey, a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot, current airline pilot and a past Texas Veterans Commissioner, w...

Credit: REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan The race to replace the late U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, has already attracted a crowd of candidates — and more are expected in the coming days. Even before Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that the special election would be May 1, Democrats and Republicans were lining up for the seat, and as of Wednesday, at least 11 contenders had entered the contest. They range from the obscure to well known, most notably including Wright's widow and longtime GOP activist Susan Wright, who made her bid official Wednesday morning. The filing deadline...

Why Daft Punk put on the robot masks: ‘It would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features’ The publicity-shy, now disbanded French duo used Hollywood special effects and NDAs to hide their faces. But what's under the helmets? 23 February 2021 • 1:03pm 'We’re not performers, we’re not models': Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, aka Daft Punk Credit: Invision In the final scene of Daft Punk’s 2006 arthouse movie Electroma, a robot refracts sunlight through a broken glass and sets itself ablaze. It walks burning into the night and the credits roll.  Daft Pun...