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Texas Governor Greg Abbott's 2019 reelection inaugural was a 2-day event that included balls, candlelight dinners, barbecues and other VIP events -- costing some $5.3 million for the celebrations.
Pastor Chris Thornton was appointed to the city council on December 1 to replace La'Shadion Shemwell who was voted out of office in a November recall election.
Officials with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas have announced that US attorney Erin Nealy Cox is resigning from the Justice Department.
The U.S. has made lethal injection history. For the first time, the government has carried out more executions in a year than all states that still conduct executions.
UT Dallas Political Science Professor Harold Clarke says national surveys he and others at the university conducted show the COVID-19 pandemic likely cost President Trump winning a second term.
Electors from 50 states and the District of Columbia will gather across the country to cast their votes on December 14 in the Electoral College and declare the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The chairman of the Texas GOP has suggested "law-abiding states" should "form a Union" after the Supreme Court rejected the state's lawsuit seeking to overturn Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit brought forth by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden's election victory.
The Dallas County Democratic Party is calling for an end to Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal attempts to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
He severely abused his 2-year-old daughter in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck's windows and dashboard while traveling through Texas. Today the Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions by putting Alfred Bourgeois to death.
President Trump is getting significant support from Republicans for a longshot lawsuit. More than 100 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general have signed onto the Texas suit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
States Attorneys General and a whole host of lawmakers are lining up on each side of the lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia known as the 'defendant states.' That lawsuit was filed directly with the United States Supreme Court on Monday, Dec. 7.
Rep. Turner requests information regarding Paxton's lawsuit against four swing states that went for President-elect Joe Biden in the November election.
Six states have formally joined Texas in its Supreme Court suit against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Seventeen states have now joined a Texas lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
