John Cornyn, the longtime incumbent, is courting GOP voters and Trump's endorsement in the face of lackluster polling against Ken Paxton.

Some Republican-controlled states are moving to redraw legislative maps to pad their party's narrow House majority in ...

House lawmakers have requested billions of dollars for special community funding projects, or earmarks, whose approval hinges ...

Prison transfers in the U.S. aren’t usually major news. But when the inmate is Ghislaine Maxwell, it becomes a story worth ...

“We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that ...

Barriers that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to eliminate have reappeared in modern forms as the country marks its 60th anniversary. The big picture: A backlash to the 2020 racial reckoning has ...

Matt Pittman of Meat Church shares his old-school method for making Texas-style brisket using a 529-gallon offset smoker ...

Tilman Fertitta, the US ambassador to Italy, lived on his luxury superyacht, Boardwalk, for weeks due to renovations at Villa ...

John Roberts came to the U.S. Supreme Court professing the best of intentions. In his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing, he promised to serve as chief justice in the fashion of a baseball umpire, ...

"An addiction to hate is arguably the most contagious and deadly of all human diseases," an expert in American studies said.

A few weeks ago, Republican election officials in Colorado began receiving unsolicited calls and texts from a GOP consultant ...

Walter Campbell, 14, has bragging rights unlike pretty much any other teen. He just returned home to Texas from a visit to ...