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Former President Donald Trump claimed the straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit on Saturday barely 24-hours after his federal indictment was publicly unsealed. He surged past Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his nearest challenger for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination, by 40.3 percent to 35.8 percent, the Washington Examiner reports.

DENVER -- Ben Carson, the famed surgeon turned presidential candidate, rode his outsider message to victory on Sunday at the Western Conservative Summit straw poll sponsored by the Washington Examiner, edging out former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Taken together, the results point to the resonance of the anti-Washington message among conservative audiences, as all three candidates argued in different ways that they would shake up the DC status quo. Carson garnered 26 percent of the 871 votes cast; Fiorina got 23 percent; Walker was at 22 percent; and Ted Cruz, at 11 percent, was the...

WCS says Andrews County facility does not violate La Paz Treaty An environmental group has written to government officials in the Mexican states that border Texas to alert them about a nuclear waste facility being built in West Texas. In the letter, Nuclear Free Texas claims the proposal violates the international La Paz Treaty. Signed by the United States and Mexico in 1983, the treaty forbids the construction of any facility that could effect the atmosphere 40 miles on either side of the border. Waste Control Specialists has lodged a permit amendment application with the Department of State Health Services...