The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected ...

Democrats last carried Texas in a presidential election 49 years ago, last elected a U.S. senator there in 1986 and have lost all statewide elections since 1994. Texas Republicans could, however, ...

After months of intense back-and-forth negotiations, on-the-floor haggling and threats to tank the legislation, Republicans’ ...

Dr. Joshua Blank, Research Director of the Texas Politics Project at UT Austin, discusses the state of the U.S. Senate race.

The Legislature will still have to appropriate the funds to pay the judgment, either during the upcoming special session or ...

As foreign espionage threats continue in the U.S. and in Texas, a new bill becomes law Sept. 1 that prohibits foreign ...

There’s likely to be a second and third reconciliation bill that would not be as significant” as the megabill that passed ...

On a late February evening, President Trump sealed the deal for the first vote on his “one big, beautiful bill” with a ...

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Buried in the sweeping legislation is an $85 million provision to move NASA's most-flown spacecraft from the national ...

Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will is warning that President Donald Trump could make the difference between ...

President Donald Trump signed into law House Resolution 1, which he called "One Big, Beautiful Bill," while hosting a ...