As California moves to retaliate, Republicans will likely benefit overall from the Trump-backed redistricting scramble.

Wyatt Langford opened the ninth with a double past shortstop. He scored on Corey Seager’s single to tie the score. Seager, who took second on throw home, scored on Joc Pederson’s double to the gap in right center field.

The Texas Senate expected to vote Friday to send the GOP majority's gerrymander to the governor's desk for approval.

The Texas Senate could vote Friday to approve new congressional maps drawn to help Republicans win as many as five more House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

Texas lawmakers approved a new congressional map this week at the behest of President Donald Trump, seeking to preserve his Republican Party's slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2026 midterm elections.

A student at Denton Ryan High School was taken into custody Friday after allegedly stabbing another student in a classroom, according to Denton police and Denton ISD. The suspect, who has not been identified, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and taken to the Denton County Juvenile Detention Center, police said.

Texas lawmakers meet again Friday, when the Republican majority in the Senate could give final approval to their map.

Hurricane Erin is entering the first stages of a post-tropical transition as it continues to move away from the eastern coast of the United States.

The Texas Senate is reconvening Friday morning to take up a controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weeks-long House standoff. The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday, aims to redraw the state's congressional map and produce five new GOP-leaning districts.

Texas and Florida on Friday asked a federal judge to let them join a lawsuit seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone, saying that they need to step in to protect their abortion policies after changes to other Republican-led states' abortion laws.

"Back On My BS" rapper BigXthaPlug was arrested in Dallas County on the same day his new album "I Hope You're Happy" dropped.

Texas and Florida, which have near-total abortion bans, said nationwide access to mifepristone makes it impossible for the states to enforce their abortion laws.