Rep. Dustin Burrows elected as Texas House Speaker
The speaker assigns committee chairmanships and can push for a bill's passage or kill it.
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The speaker assigns committee chairmanships and can push for a bill's passage or kill it.
"Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels has donated his career archive to the Harry Ransom Center cultural archive at the University of Texas.
During the next 140 days, Burrows will lead the House in developing and approving a state budget in conjunction with the Senator.
Tesla's increase in global sales in the fourth quarter was not enough to overcome a sluggish first half of the year.
Texas laws affecting car drivers, taxpayers and more take effect starting Jan.1 .
When wealthy Austin jewelers Corey and Ted Shaughnessy are attacked by intruders in their own home, investigators initially wondered if it was a robbery gone wrong. The answer was more sinister than anyone could have expected.
It's the time for transitions across Texas as leadership changes take effect before the new term.
A Glen Powell lookalike concert was held in Austin over the weekend. The actor said a family member of the contest winner will appear in his upcoming movie.
Professors at the University of North Texas assert that administrators are preemptively censoring the College of Education by removing references to race and equity from course titles and descriptions.
The first Michelin Guide was created in 1889 by a brother duo in France. The guide now rates over 30,000 establishments in over 30 territories across three continents.
Vice President Harris will be joined by Colin Allred at a rally in Houston, while former President Trump will appear in Austin with Ted Cruz.
"What Kamala Harris has done on our border is cruel, it's vile, and it's absolutely heartless," Trump said.
The Amber Alert was triggered when officers responded to a double homicide in the 1800 block of Burton Drive
Officials said a member of the volunteer church safety team encountered two "suspicious" men in the parking lot.
Raul Meza Jr. was run out of several Texas cities when he was released early from prison in 1993.
It's been seven months since former Dallas city manager T.C. Broadnax announced his resignation. Now the city is also losing its popular police chief with Eddie Garcia's announcement that he's headed to Austin.
Both sides declared victory at the end of a two-week trial in an Austin courthouse.
For the first time, a free weekend-long retreat is now open to Dallas-Fort Worth-area public school teachers.
Brenna Swindell was last seen on Thursday at a bar with her ex-boyfriend.
Deck Brewer was identified as a suspect in connection to Susan Leigh Wolfe's cold case killing in 1980 when she was a nursing student at the University of Texas.
Keeping students focused in class is a losing battle for Texas schools when there are cellphones around to distract them, says State Representative Ellen Troxclair.
That law paved the way for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which ended discriminatory voting laws.
Biden called for a Constitutional Amendment eliminating immunity for crimes a former president committed in office.
President Biden is proposing a constitutional amendment that would make clear that any former president is not immune to prosecution for crimes committed while in office.
COVID and a historic departure from a reelection campaign are now behind the president.
