The Legislature will still have to appropriate the funds to pay the settlement, either during the upcoming special session or ...

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The third-term Republican, who is challenging U.S. Sen. John Cornyn next year rather than run for reelection, did not give an ...

Democrats last carried Texas in a presidential election 49 years ago, last elected a U.S. senator there in 1986 and have lost all statewide elections since 1994. Texas Republicans could, however, ...

They include former Bexar County Democratic Party Chair Juan Manuel Medina and former Democratic Texas House candidate ...

A South Texas grand jury this week reportedly indicted nine people, including the former chair of the Bexar County Democratic ...