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, ...

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

On July 2 2025, 16 families in Texas of different religious and nonreligious backgrounds filed suit in federal court to the ...

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

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

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

During her remarks in a Senate hearing in February, Senator Patty Murray blasted the Trump Administration over their devastating budget cuts. Murray stated, "It's not just illegal, it's devastating." ...

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

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More than $10 billion in funds are included in Trump’s tax and spending bill for NASA programs previously targeted by the ...

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