The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected ...

Democrats last carried Texas in a presidential election 49 years ago, last elected a U.S. senator there in 1986 and have lost all statewide elections since 1994. Texas Republicans could, however, ...

(The Center Square) – As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that ...

“The real harm is the influence of a private company on the decisions made by government,” Cyrus Reed, the conservation ...

Dr. Joshua Blank, Research Director of the Texas Politics Project at UT Austin, discusses the state of the U.S. Senate race.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, state Rep. James Talarico and former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke are among those who've said they may ...

The Legislature will still have to appropriate the funds to pay the judgment, either during the upcoming special session or ...

Gov. Greg Abbott’s veto of Senate Bill 3 means dispensaries can keep their doors open — for now. Their future now hinges on a ...

A newly-passed Texas law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms is facing a second ...

And he says that experience, as well as his time in the state Senate, will help separate him from his two announced opponents ...

There’s likely to be a second and third reconciliation bill that would not be as significant” as the megabill that passed ...

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