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, ...

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

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

Sixteen Texas families of multiple faiths and nonreligious backgrounds filed the case against multiple school districts ...

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in May, Senator Patty Murray clashed with FBI Director Kash Patel over the Trump Administration's budget cuts. Murray stated, "That is really absurd." ...

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The "One Big Beautiful Bill," now enacted, directs that space shuttle Discovery be removed from the Smithsonian and placed on ...

On a late February evening, President Trump sealed the deal for the first vote on his “one big, beautiful bill” with a ...

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is warning that President Donald Trump could make the difference between ...

Authorities said 13 people have died in flooding in Kerr County, Texas, and officials have performed "dozens" of water ...

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