The first domino in a growing national redistricting battle is likely to fall Wednesday as the Republican-controlled Texas ...

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House ...

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement ...

Hurricane Erin shutters East Coast beaches amid vacation season.

State representatives ripped up permission slips that Republican House leaders gave Democratic lawmakers trying to leave the Capitol building. One even spent the night sleeping inside the chambers.