A tense evening unfolded at the Texas Capitol as protesters and others were evacuated following an active shooter threat.The only person remain ...

Tensions ran high at the Texas State Capitol as an active shooter threat prompted the evacuation of the building on Monday night.State Represen ...

The vote comes hours after reports of a social media threat led to an evacuation at the state Capitol on Tuesday.

A Texas Democratic state lawmaker abruptly left a call with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin and other top party leaders on Wednesday after she was warned she was committing a ...

Republicans teed off debate in the state House of Representatives by making no bones that their goal is to help Trump hold onto Congress in what is shaping up as a difficult political environment.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday kicked off a heated debate over a ...

You really are inspiring so many people,” the former vice president told Texas lawmaker Collier, who slept inside the state ...

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

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

The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is poised to vote soon on a redistricting plan that resulted from prodding by ...

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

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 ...