Egyptian Women Wrap Up Bush Fellowship
Former first lady Laura Bush is speaking to a group of Egyptian women wrapping up a yearlong fellowship with the George W. Bush Institute.
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Former first lady Laura Bush is speaking to a group of Egyptian women wrapping up a yearlong fellowship with the George W. Bush Institute.
States with the most gun control laws have the fewest gun-related deaths, according to a study that suggests sheer quantity of measures might make a difference.
Activists from across the state came to Dallas to hold a vigil in honor of the lives lost at the jail and to call on the state to close Dawson State Jail for good.
Mayor Robert Cluck says Arlington has reached a deal with DART and Fort Worth's transportation authority to operate buses in Arlington.
Hundreds of activists have rallied outside the Texas Capitol for Planned Parenthood, one of the organizations most-vilified by conservative lawmakers inside the building.
Planned Parenthood is holding its annual lobbying day at the Capitol, despite a vote by the Legislature to bar it from getting state funding and a possible vote to keep it out of sex education classes.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has focused this year on curbing domestic violence in the city. He is taking that plan to an international stage, speaking in front of the United Nations.
A Texas Senate education panel heard details Tuesday on a proposal to prohibit organizations linked to abortion providers from teaching sex education in public schools statewide.
Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the Transportation Security Administration.
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price gave her second State of the City Address Tuesday morning. During the speech she told more than 1,000 business and community leaders that she's going to slash the budget so the city can finally operate without deficits.
On Tuesday, the Texas Senate's Committee on Business and Commerce has agreed to consider legislation that would expand the market for craft beers.
Education committees in the Texas House and Senate are discussing a raft of bills, including the possibility of offering expanded "school choice" to students with disabilities.
Thousands of protesters are expected to march on the Texas Capitol to demand that lawmakers expand Medicaid to include an additional 1.5 million poor people.
Dr. Robert Jeffress, the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, says he's tickled pink at the idea the American Atheists are going after him on their new billboard. "Any day that our church is attacked by the American Atheists, we consider it to be a great day."
In a nasty fight involving Dallas' rich, powerful, and politically connected-- a federal judge rules against a Hunt family heir, while handing embattled District Attorney Craig Watkins a public relations victory, if not vindication.
