Nathaniel Moran’s predecessor in Congress, Louie Gohmert, rose to prominence as a bombastic congressman prone to propagating baseless conspiracy theories ... Show more
Vice President Kamala Harris will headline a Texas Democratic Party event in October, according to the party. It will be the Biden administration's ... Show more
Democrat Mike Collier is increasingly leaning into his background as a former Republican as he tries to pull off an upset against GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ... Show more
Beto O’Rourke said Sunday that he will be off the campaign trail indefinitely after being diagnosed with a bacterial infection.
Show moreGov. Greg Abbott joined 21 Republican governors Monday in denouncing President Joe Biden’s student loan relief plan, asserting that the thousands of dollars ... Show more
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says he will vote against a bill to codify same-sex marriage protections into federal law, one of the few remaining Democratic priorities ... Show more
Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke have agreed to a Sept. 30 debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Tony Gonzales broke with his party to support sweeping gun safety legislation that passed after the city’s tragedy. He drew backlash from GOP activists ... Show more
Text messages and emails from Alex Jones show that he contradicted his own testimony during his defamation trial held Wednesday ... Show more
Quick Glance: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $45.2 million to the Sandy Hook family.
- These punitive damages are in addition to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages he must pay to the mother and father of a 6-year-old boy slain in the 2012 shooting.
- Late Friday, jurors issued a decision against Alex Jones, ordering him to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child slain in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- "[Alex Jones] is worth almost $270 million that we know of."
- The verdict concluded off a terrible trial for the conspiracy theorist, which included his own lawyers handing a lawyer for the Sandy Hook victim's family two years' worth of Jones' damaging text conversations.
Gov. Greg Abbott is sending state troopers to Uvalde for an “anti-gang effort” after two juveniles were injured in a shooting ... Show more
Armed services veteran David P. Bighia has been fighting the Air Force in an employment discrimination case for more than eight years ... Show more
A century of enterprise brought the Rio Grande to its brink. Now authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom on ... Show more
An adult Harris County resident who was diagnosed with monkeypox has died. State health officials cautioned that they are still investigating how the virus ... Show more
Guy Reffitt has been sentenced to 7 ¼ years in prison for bringing a gun to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, helping instigate the insurrection and ... Show more
Weston thought he had fully come to terms with his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Then he saw the video of her speaking at a school board meeting ... Show more
Uvalde school officials could fire Pete Arredondo, the school district’s police chief, on Aug. 24.
Show moreThe Biden administration has offered to free a Russian arms dealer in exchange for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, two Americans being detained in Russia ... Show more
New: WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner of Houston has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court after bringing less than a gram of ... Show more
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz helped the Senate pass a bill providing care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Last week, he drew criticism after voting to delay ... Show more
Beto O’Rourke raised $27.6 million from late February through June, according to his campaign.
That’s the most money a Texan seeking state office ... Show more
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a state disaster declaration Tuesday for 23 counties after the Dallas area experienced what he described as the city’s second-worst ... Show more
NEW: The state’s power grid operator is asking Texans again to conserve energy on Wednesday as it expects record-high demand for power amid ongoing ... Show more
College-bound Uvalde students worry how the mass shooting at Robb Elementary will define them in their new environments and struggle with guilt about the ... Show more
New: Pete Arredondo, the law enforcement official state police said was most responsible for a flawed response to the Uvalde elementary school shooting in ... Show more
Legal questions shroud Gov. Greg Abbott's recent order authorizing Department of Public Safety troopers and National Guard service members stationed at ... Show more
Concan, an unincorporated area in Uvalde County, is busing in thousands of gallons of water to keep the region from going dry ... Show more
First Lady Jill Biden apologized Tuesday after she said that the Latino community was “as unique as the breakfast tacos” during a San Antonio speech Monday ... Show more
Linda Coffee was 30 years old when she won a U.S. Supreme Court case protecting the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. Now 79 ... Show more
Quick Glance: Trump to a Justice Department official: "Just say the"
- The House committee's note read, "Just say the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen."
- On Thursday, the January 6 committee revealed scans of notes taken by Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general during Trump's final days in office.
- One note, labeled Republican Rep.
- "That's an exact quote from the president, yes," Donoghue said.
New Mexico has now been cemented as one of the closest safe havens for abortion for a large swath of states amid the end of Roe v. Wade ... Show more
The detention of WNBA player Brittney Griner, who was arrested in Russia more than four months ago, has been extended by six months pending the outcome of ... Show more
Quick Glance: Layshia Clarendon of the WNBA: Republicans are coming for all of our rights. Yours as well. | Opinion
- Nothing beyond that is actual freedom until we are free to chose what is proper for our own flesh and the same for our offspring.
- --One transsexual student participating in female athletics.
- Under the pretense of safeguarding women and girls, Idaho's "Fairness in Women's Sports Act" was passed into law in March.
- Republicans want us to debate the virtues of transgender athletes in sports while passing awful policies like this that impact everyone's children and rights.
Despite abortion services coming to an end, Texans still have access to a range of birth control and reproductive health care services through most health ... Show more