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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A walkout by Texas House Democrats is stalling redrawn political maps that President Donald Trump wants before the 2026 elections to bolster Republican chances of keeping its U.S. House majority.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the state's highest court to remove the Democratic House leader from office, escalating efforts to end the holdout that is blocking redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the state's highest court to remove the Democratic House leader from office, escalating efforts to end the holdout blocking redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Dozens of Texas Democratic lawmakers had barely left the state to stall a vote on a redrawn congressional map when Republicans started lobbing threats of steep fines, arrests, criminal investigations and even removal from office.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Dozens of Democratic state lawmakers in Texas have scattered to points across the country in a last-ditch effort to prevent Republicans from adopting U.S. House maps that President Donald Trump wants in place before the 2026 midterm elections.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed for divorce on Thursday, seeking to end 38 years of marriage as her husband campaigns for the U.S. Senate.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A group of Dallas-area families and faith leaders have filed a lawsuit seeking to block a new Texas law that requires copies of the Ten Commandments be posted in every public school classroom.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- For two decades on Texas college campuses, it was a resilient law in the face of Republicans' hardening immigration agenda: in-state tuition prices for students who did not have legal resident status.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state's largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A real estate developer, whose relationship with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was at the center of the Republican's historic impeachment trial in 2023 and a recently-ended federal corruption investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to five years' supervised release and fined $1 million for lying to a financial institution.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued two of the state's largest counties to block efforts to register voters ahead of the November general election, drawing claims of voter suppression from state Democrats.
Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday, has died. She was 74.
Longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who helped lead federal efforts to protect women from domestic violence and recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday, has died. She was 74.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist Kinky Friedman, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie Nelson, and dabbled in politics with campaigns for Texas governor and other statewide offices, has died.
The judge presiding over Hunter Biden's federal gun trial in Delaware is a former corporate civil lawyer with a background in biology who was nominated to the bench by the Biden family's chief political antagonist: former President Donald Trump.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas has won his primary over a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman to a runoff and threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan won his primary runoff Tuesday to a survive a wave of party turbulence in America's biggest red state, and anger from the right over last year's impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas was out to save his job Tuesday in a GOP primary runoff that has put rifts within the party on display.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is out to save his job Tuesday in a GOP primary runoff that has put rifts within the party on display.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The 2024 primary season is roughly halfway over and there have been few shakeups so far, with just one U.S. House member defeated and incumbents widely prevailing in state Capitols.