Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s ...

Texas is the third state where recent laws about putting the Ten Commandments in schools have been blocked by a court.

In sports, the winning team doesn’t get to rewrite the rules to guarantee it’ll never lose again. In a democracy, the same ...

Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.

A train derails and spills at least 1,000 gallons of hazardous materials in the U.S. about once every two months. Nearly half ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier, joined by her Democratic colleagues, spent the last two nights sleeping in the House chamber at the Capitol in Austin.

Texas' Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP ...

The Texas House is set to vote on House Bill 4, which would implement new districts for Texas U.S. House members in favor of Republicans.

Rep. Suleman Lalani, among the Democrats who fled the state to delay GOP redistricting efforts, had a constant law ...

The so-called “permission slips” were issued to Democrats who broke quorum and fled the state in a 15-day fight over GOP gerrymandering. The slips, which they were forced to sign in order to leave the ...

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public ...

State Rep. Nicole Collier filed a lawsuit to challenge the Texas House's authority to enforce police escorts for lawmakers ...