Texas leads US in early voting with over 4M ballots already cast

Younger people are behind a rise in coronavirus illnesses in the Austin area, Texas officials said, noting that the county now has the highest number of active cases since August. More than half of the 1,034 active cases in Austin-Travis County involve adults between 20 and 39 years old, according to Austin Public Health.

DNA led to the arrest of an Army soldier stationed in Texas in the death of a high school track star. Cory Grafton, 20, was charged with killing 32-year-old Chelsea Cheatham in June 2019.

outcome of the election remained unclear, claiming victories in states that have not yet been decided and portraying the orderly counting of millions of legally cast votes as an illegitimate effort to steal the election.The president pointed to his projected wins in Florida and Texas — although he falsely said nobody had projected those states — and claimed he'd won Georgia even as ballots are still being counted in some of that state's largest counties.

A federal judge in Houston is holding an emergency hearing Monday morning over a Republican-led effort to toss out nearly 127,000 ballots in the largest Texas county. U.S.

Floridians experienced a record-breaking first day of early voting in anticipation of the upcoming November election, with over 3.1 million votes cast.  More than 366,000 of those ballots were cast in-person on the first day, according to statistics from the Florida Division of Elections.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterJulia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Larry David — the stars and co-creator of “Seinfeld” — will reunite on Friday for a virtual fundraiser for the Texas Democratic Party.The event is billed as a “Fundraiser About Something,” and the trio will be talking about their favorite “Seinfeld” episodes with host Seth Meyers.“Texas is a battleground state, period,” Louis-Dreyfus, Alexander and David said in a joint statement.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Texas' voting rules that call for signatures on absentee ballots to be verified. In a Monday order, the court blocked a U.S.

A Mexican American living in Texas, who is a Vietnam War veteran and a Purple Heart recipient, has finally received U.S. citizenship -- more than 50 years after his military duty, according to a report.

Texas saw a huge turnout on the first day of early voting Tuesday, with some of the state's biggest counties reporting a record number of ballots cast.  The Lone Star State has already topped 1.1 million votes with more weeks of voting still to come -- a record, according to the Houston Chronicle. Early voting in Texas started on Tuesday, Oct.

AUSTIN, Texas – A lawsuit about whether coronavirus face masks can be required at polling places in Texas on Election Day was partially revived Wednesday evening by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, according to local reports.

 Oprah Winfrey  to motivate you to vote? That’s exactly what recently happened to a few Texas residents. Winfrey partnered with Beto O’Rourke’s Powered By People organization to surprise United States citizens and urge them to vote during the upcoming presidential election on November 3rd or drop off their absentee ballots.

The Texas Republican Party filed a lawsuit Monday night challenging a decision by the state's most populous county to provide more voting options amid the coronavirus pandemic.  The state GOP's lawsuit, filed in a state appeals court in Houston hours before early voting in Texas began, argued that Harris County had violated the state's election code by offering drive-thru and curbside voting.  "This illegal policy, which is grounded on the dubious notion that a lack of immunity from COVID-19

Ashlee Simpson turned in her ballot on Tuesday, October 13, with her baby bump on display.“Get out and vote!” the Ashlee+Evan alum, 36, captioned her Instagram slideshow. “No excuses.”In the social media upload, the Texas native rocked an all-black outfit, including a matching mask, and pointed to the “I Voted” sticker on her budding belly.

Oprah Winfrey recently summoned her cold-calling chops in order to encourage Texas voters to get to the polls -- and the effort surprised the media mogul.  Winfrey, 66, partnered with Beto O’Rourke’s Powered by People organization.  In her first dial-out, the caller, named Christian, left Oprah nearly speechless, which she shared to Instagram on Tuesday.  After being taken aback that he wasn’t a victim of an elaborate prank phone call, Christian hit it out of the park.  In the clip, Oprah wasted