A vacancy in a statewide elective office means the governor selects the replacement. And it could set off a scramble across ...

The Biden administration had challenged a Republican-led redistricting plan that diluted the political power of minorities.

Texas Congressional Democrats are calling on the federal government to release the funds it has withheld from the ...

Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas) died late Tuesday after serving just two months and a day in Congress, party officials said ...

A hearing on the bill included heated testimony from ultra-conservative evangelical pastor Rafael Cruz, the father of Texas U ...

LAREDO, Texas — Tano Tijerina spent a decade as the Democratic chief executive of Webb County here in South Texas. But when he was honored recently by the local chapter of the country’s oldest ...

A bill filed Friday and backed by top Republicans aims to give doctors more leeway to treat pregnant patients in medical ...

Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Representative Sylvester Turner, a former mayor of Houston, who was sworn into office ...

The committee and some Democratic legislators want that information revealed to help get a fuller picture of how and why mothers are dying. Some bills would also rejoin Texas to the federal system ...

The case involves Texas’ 2021 redrawing of 2021 of political maps for congressional and state legislative districts after the 2020 census. The updated maps were meant to reflect the state’s ...