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While Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) held a slight lead in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, the race — between Cornyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) — is headed to a runoff after ...

After declaring “life begins at conception” and calling that point “the most important issue of this entire gubernatorial race,” Steen launched into his remarks connecting water safety, which is an ...

With many of our democratic institutions in crisis and elites capitulating to the whims of the White House, it’s critical that an honest record of the present be kept to ensure perseverance of the law ...

As the still preeminent global military power, you tend to be on the line for other sorts of instability that your war of ...

One day after it asked the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow it to voluntarily withdraw its appeal of its losses in the ...

Scandal-plagued Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) and pro-gun YouTuber Brandon Herrera — AKA "TheAKGuy" — will face off in a May runoff after neither won a majority of primary votes Tuesday.

Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will battle on to a late May runoff, as neither topped 50 percent in Tuesday ...

State Rep. James Talarico (D) will be Democrats’ standard-bearer in November, as they try to take advantage of President Trump’s unpopularity and a potentially deeply flawed Republican opponent to do ...

Sandra Guerra Thompson, a criminal law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said that SB 1518 was striking in part for its harshness: a charge of hindering the prosecution of terrorism, ...

Evangelical figures see a connection between Trump’s war on Iran and a lunar eclipse during the Jewish holiday of Purim.

With many of our democratic institutions in crisis and elites capitulating to the whims of the White House, the task of creating such a record is more important than ever. Yet there are fewer and ...