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Hammering the point that Texas is looking more Hispanic and less white every year, Democrats on Monday began pushing for new 2018 election maps before a court that already decided Republicans purposefully tried stifling minority voters.
A music publicist says he set up a meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump's eldest son on behalf of a client in Moscow named Emin Agalarov.
Governor Greg Abbott has formally called state lawmakers into a special legislative session beginning next week.
Sen. Charles Schumer is urging federal regulators to look into a 'snortable chocolate' powder, saying that he is worried that it could prove harmful and is being marketed like a drug.
Lawmakers are returning from their July 4 recess with an added objective -- averting some full-blown political disasters.
Ivanka Trump, President Trump's daughter and White House adviser, took Mr. Trump's seat during a meeting of G-20 leaders in Hamburg, Germany, on Saturday as Mr. Trump stepped away during the proceedings.
A judge in Texas who was put on unpaid leave in May after officials discovered she was not a U.S. citizen has become a citizen.
The U.S. refugee program will be suspended Wednesday when a cap of 50,000 refugee admissions for the fiscal year — the lowest in a decade.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz held a lengthy but civil debate with a small group of hecklers defending former President Barack Obama's health care law in Austin Thursday night.
Hospital: House Majority Whip Steve Scalise undergoes surgery for management of infection, remains in serious condition.
The Trump administration says Texas has rid its voter ID law of any discriminatory effects and is asking a judge who once compared the measure to a "poll tax" to not take further action.
The fight to make it legal to carry a gun at zoos in Texas continues -- now gun advocates are resting their hopes on the state Attorney General.
The hospital in Washington where House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is still recuperating from a gunshot wound said that he has been readmitted into the intensive care unit because of new concerns for infection.
President Donald Trump questioned the veracity of American intelligence about foreign meddling in the U.S. election, arguing Thursday that Russia wasn't the only country that may have interfered.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is taking part tonight in a "Defend & Reform" Town Hall in McKinney to discuss the issues impacting veterans and their families.
