Hispanic Leaders Urge Farmers Branch Boycott
The City of Farmers Branch wants to ban undocumented immigrants from renting property, but Hispanic community leaders are vowing to fight back.
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The City of Farmers Branch wants to ban undocumented immigrants from renting property, but Hispanic community leaders are vowing to fight back.
Tea party activists are to rally at the Texas Capitol to urge Congress to withhold funding for the White House-backed health care law.
A federal judge is to decide if a Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is competent to stand trial.
The NAACP has asked to join the Justice Department's lawsuit to overturn the voter ID law in Texas.
Vice President Joe Biden returns to Houston as the featured speaker at The American Legion's national convention.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is visiting Austin Community College on Monday to speak about what she calls a new economic agenda for women.
Lt. Gov David Dewhurst spoke to the media Saturday for the first time since his controversial phone call to the Allen Police Department a week ago.
Unless a federal judge intervenes, the South Texas city of Edinburg could be the first to enforce a new voter ID law next week, and lawyers will likely use the special election to gather evidence to strengthen lawsuits to block it in the future.
A judge has acquitted Dallas County district attorney Craig Watkins of a contempt charge, a charge Watkins has been fighting against for months.
State Sen. Wendy Davis has been encouraged by Democrats to run for the Texas Governor's office in 2014. But SMU political scientist Cal Jillson thinks it would be a bad move.
Opposition to immigration overhaul legislation has been relatively muted this summer.
It's a call that gained more attention than Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst may have ever expected. After Allen police arrested his step-niece for shoplifting Dewhurst personally called the police department to help her.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry waded into Missouri's political battle over taxes Thursday, endorsing an uphill effort by Republican legislators to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of an income tax cut.
The Justice Department says it will sue Texas over the state's voter ID law and will seek to intervene in a lawsuit over the state's redistricting laws.
Sen. Ted Cruz is scheduled to speak at a GOP dinner to benefit the town of West. The McLennan County Republican Party is hosting the dinner Thursday night in Waco.
