For the first time since Texas outlawed nearly all abortions, lawmakers are clarifying the "life of mother" exception. But ...

Kendall Scudder, the newly elected chair of the Texas Democratic Party, grew up on a purple pea farm in Bowie County. The ...

GOP Sen. John Cornyn is facing a challenge from state Attorney General Ken Paxton in what figures to be an expensive and ...

Two years ago the governor of Texas named his top policy priority: a sprawling school-voucher bill that would give parents ...

Ken Paxton’s career as Texas attorney general has been marred by corruption allegations and impeachment. He's running for the ...

Taylor Edwards poses for a portrait in the Texas Capitol on April 7. At 17 weeks, Edwards' pregnancy had started showing signs of a severe brain abnormality. She was one of 13 plaintiffs who sued ...

Matt Mackowiak, a veteran Republican strategist and communications consultant based in Texas and Washington, D.C., pointed to the bruising intra-party battle ahead as he told Fox News that "this ...

Hacking group Anonymous' co-founder Aubrey Cottle allegedly gained unauthorized access to Texas GOP data and later ...

Texas’ senior senator had just played a central role in passing the first gun safety bill in a generation — a move that the ...

El Pasoan John Bash, the former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, kicked off his election campaign for Texas attorney general.

John’s vision for strong, independent journalism lives on through your gift today. The senator’s embrace of the state party chair could neutralize a potential threat as Cornyn faces a ...