Texas Senate Approves Rape Kit Funding Measure
The Texas Senate has approved a bill allowing drivers to offer donations to help the state clear its backlog of untested rape kits.
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The Texas Senate has approved a bill allowing drivers to offer donations to help the state clear its backlog of untested rape kits.
Texas lawmakers are moving to finally abolish a provision allowing people to face jail time for selling unlabeled CDs.
"This has been 117 days like we've never seen," said Dr. Jeffrey Engel, the Director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU.
The compromise worked out is now the basis for amendments to the House bill.
Former FBI head Robert Mueller will oversee the probe into Trump-Russian connection.
Given final approval 20-10 on Wednesday, the bill brings ride-hailing companies under Texas regulatory control and imposes fees.
The Texas Senate has preliminarily approved a bill eliminating straight-ticket voting statewide beginning in 2020.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is clamoring for a special legislative session unless the Texas House approves two bills that it was already expected to pass including a controversial 'bathroom bill.'
The Texas state Senate is considering a bill to kill the agency that runs bus service for most of the Dallas County school districts.
Bill O'Reilly is taking up an offer from former FOX News colleague Glenn Beck to work together again. O'Reilly announced on his podcast that he will have a weekly spot on Beck's radio show.
A state appeals court has temporarily halted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's criminal case on securities fraud charges as he presses for a new judge.
The ruling Tuesday comes as Paxton is scheduled to stand trial in Houston in September on felony accusations that he misled investors in a tech startup.
The New York Times says Trump made the request to Comey during a February meeting.
Abbott said prohibitions against racial profiling by police will be "strictly enforced" under the law.
Texas Senator John Cornyn has told the Trump administration he'll stay in the U.S. Senate and is not interested in the vacant FBI director position.
