A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers on Tuesday called on Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, and the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution of a man convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter in 2002. Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Oct. 17. Prosecutors claimed his daughter, Nikki Curtis, was killed after sustaining …

REO Speedwagon has come to a stop. The band, which formed in 1967, announced on Monday that as of January, they plan to cease touring, with their last stop on their current tour being Lexington, Kentucky, on Nov. 23. The group detailed their reasons in a lengthy Facebook post that cited “irreconcilable differences,” a term usually cited in divorce cases. …

House Republicans are toying with the idea of attaching additional U.S. Secret Service (USSS) funds to a short-term spending patch aimed at avoiding an Oct. 1 partial government shutdown. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is teeing up a vote Wednesday evening on his plan to avert a shutdown, a six-month spending patch called a continuing resolution (CR), which is being paired …