Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows has said the chamber will reconvene at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT) to move ahead with ...

Texas Democrats are gearing up for another day of defiance against Gov. Greg Abbott and the state GOP as they try to move ...

More than 50 Texas Democratic legislators left the state to block a GOP effort to redraw congressional lines. Abbott said ...

Texas state Democrats had been plotting their departure for weeks. But most weren’t sure they were going—or where they were ...

After the Texas House failed to make a quorum on Tuesday, Texas Democrats were told to return to Austin by Friday​ or face ...

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the ...

Texas and California — the two most populous U.S. states — are the leading actors in a back-and-forth push to remake the ...

If Talarico enters the race, he would face a primary against former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Dallas, who ran against Cruz in ...

The push to redraw Texas’ congressional maps outside the normal 10-year cycle follows a push by President Donald Trump’s ...

As President Trump’s deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday, the prospect of the leaders meeting in ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton examines PAC connected to Beto O'Rourke for allegedly assisting Texas Democrats who abandoned ...