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

That means TWIA has a significant degree of exposure in the event of costly storms. As of April 2025, for example, TWIA had ...

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.

As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that prohibits foreign ...

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 ...

Dozens of Houstonians joined the impromptu group to chant, rant and sign a declaration of "independence from Trump's fascist ...

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