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Texas is facing a tumultuous 2025, as simmering feuds within the state's ruling coalition are poised to boil over during its coming legislative...
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An acrimonious race for Speaker of the Texas House is splitting the state GOP — and forcing a confrontation between the body’s warring...
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Two bills making it easier to tap the earth’s heat for on-demand clean power have passed the House. The CLEAN Act and HEATS Act remove many of...
Texas Democrats are sorting through what went wrong after their shining hopes turned to ash in November — and what it means for their long-term...
Food and cosmetics from dozens of major retailers come wrapped in potentially dangerous plastics, a new report has found. More than 17 retailers...
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The release of planet-heating chemicals into the atmosphere are set to hit a record high in 2024 — with “no sign” of a peak in sight, a new...
Extreme weather is a factor in driving both illegal border crossings from Mexico into the U.S. and whether migrants return to Mexico, according to...
In the aftermath of his party’s brutal shellacking in the 2024 elections, Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa has announced he will...
In the end, it wasn’t close at all. On election night, Texans handed sweeping victories to the Republican Party that controls the state, and in...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) will deploy poll watchers to “major counties” across the state on Election Day. The announcement comes as...
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are calling on five southern states to explain how they are keeping constituents from being ripped off...
Texas Republicans are making a preemptive push to paint the 2024 election as illegitimate and rife with fraud, a move that comes as Sen. Ted Cruz...
Children whose parents keep them off sugar during their first two years of life have lower rates of diabetes and high blood pressure for the rest...
Computer scientists need to grapple with the possibility that they will accidentally create sentient artificial intelligence (AI) — and to plan...
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Alcohol — and animals who love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a new study has found....
World governments are “fueling the fire” of a global health crisis with the trillions of dollars per year they direct toward subsidizing fossil...
Laser imaging of the rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula have turned up thousands of ancient Maya structures — and an entire previously...
Rep. Colin Allred (D) is homing in on suburban voters to pull him over the finish line with a week to go in Texas’ increasingly tight Senate...
In thousands of U.S. towns and cities, worsening climate threats — largely due to fossil fuels — trap cities in a paradox. Big cities like Houston...
Record numbers of Texans turned out on Monday for the first day of early voting — numbers that were particularly concentrated in several of the...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday called on federal regulators to make it more difficult for donors to use ActBlue, a popular progressive...
A member of a powerful and embattled Democratic South Texas political family has thrown her weight behind the Republican candidate in a pivotal...
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Democratic Party activists have been on a mission to flip all of the state’s urban counties — once Republican bulwarks — as they look to chip...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and former Rep. Collin Allred (D) squared off on Tuesday in their only debate before Election Day, sparring over the border and...
Hurricanes Milton and Helene are exposing holes in the home insurance coverage that many Americans have leaned on for a sense of security in the...
Democrats are seeing signs of growing momentum in the Texas Senate race between Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Colin Allred, fueling the party’s hopes...
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Austin’s "magic" has slipped away thanks to poorly planned development run amok, a new book argues. In "Lost in Austin," out Tuesday, journalist...
Federal regulators are alleging a major oil company CEO conspired with foreign governments to keep oil and gas prices high. On Monday, the Federal...
The stopgap farm bill is set to expire next week — and the congressional coalition that the massive legislation has relied on for half a century is...
House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn "G.T." Thompson (R-Pa.) is meeting with congressional leaders on agricultural policy Thursday to try to...
Dozens of House Republicans are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to schedule a vote on a farm bill before the end of the year. That timeline...
Deadly blackouts that killed hundreds of people across Texas in 2021 — which have been widely blamed on failures to properly insulate gas pipelines...
An Texas judge has slapped down an attempt by state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to force the state fair to allow guns. Paxton’s office sued...
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The fight over voter registration in Texas Democratic-leaning cities is heating up. In Tuesday, Travis County sued Texas state officials —...
Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic leaves humans with a...
AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to block a voter registration drive in one of Texas’s most populous urban counties — and...
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Some regions of Texas have already run out of water — and the rest face a looming crisis, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Sunday....
AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) on Friday filed suit against Travis County over its voter regislation policies, the third...
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas Republican who survived a primary assault from his own party’s right wing said Thursday that the GOP is on track to lose...
AUSTIN, Texas — America is at risk for political violence and disputed elections regardless of who wins in November, a Texas House...
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Workers at a Tennessee battery plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers — marking a significant victory in the union’s ongoing campaign...