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The open weekend for Marathon, Bungie’s new multiplayer shooter, is just around the corner. During the Server Slam weekend, ...

Also, hundreds of federal agents are set to withdraw from Minneapolis. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday. By Matthew Cullen The Supreme Court issued an unsigned order today that cleared the ...

The Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to block California‘s use of a new congressional map in the November election, rejecting an emergency petition from the California GOP. The brief, unsigned ...

In August 2025 an analyst at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report broke down the proposed Texas and California redistricting maps for the 2026 midterm elections. Illustration: Ryan Trefes The Supreme ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In a ...

Perimeter is the first available map in Marathon offering the full extraction shooter experience, without some of the gameplay restrictions found in the ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed California to use a new congressional map that voters approved, delivering a major victory for Democrats ahead of this year’s midterm elections. The decision ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block California's new congressional map that could net Democrats five seats in the upcoming midterm elections. The decision from the high court ...

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use a new voting map that favours Democrats, paving the way for the party to gain up to five congressional seats this year. The unsigned ...

The decision from the high court clears the way for California to use for now the newly drawn lines for most of its 52 House districts in this year's congressional elections. There were no noted ...