Tag: Texas

Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke, who is running for the Senate, speaks during the general session at the Texas Democratic Convention, June 22, 2018, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Top Texas Democrats want to decriminalize unauthorized border crossings

Caitlin Yilek · August 23, 2018 7:24 pm

Ted Cruz and Kevin Bacon

Ted Cruz uses Kevin Bacon to diss Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke

Daniel Chaitin · August 23, 2018 1:46 pm

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Ted Cruz, Beto O’Rourke in four-point race: Poll

Naomi Lim · August 22, 2018 9:53 pm

Ajit Pai and Alex Jones.

FCC chairman defends crackdown on pirate radio station used by Alex Jones: ‘We will always follow the law’

Naomi Lim · August 16, 2018 3:28 pm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 5th, 2018, to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the fiscal 2019 budget for the Education Department.

Betsy Devos gives $359 million to assist students displaced by natural disasters, even as prior grant money remains unused

Brooke Conrad · August 15, 2018 3:50 pm

The Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, is seen in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, in September 2010.

Energy and Environment

Trump's latest massive offshore oil and gas sale fares slightly better than last

Josh Siegel · August 15, 2018 12:48 pm

Energy and Environment

Trump’s likely pick for energy regulator won’t be slam-dunk for coal bailout, supporters say

Josh Siegel · August 15, 2018 4:01 am

Key Obamacare lawsuit to be argued just ahead of midterm elections

Kimberly Leonard · August 14, 2018 10:02 pm

FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo shows young detainees being escorted to an area to make phone calls as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. Thousands of immigrant children crossing alone into the U.S. can live in American cities, attend public schools and possibly work here for years without consequences. The chief reasons are an overburdened, deeply flawed system of immigration courts and a 2002 law intended to protect children's welfare, an Associated Press investigation finds. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Texas ‘tent city’ housing migrant boys to remain open until September: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · August 11, 2018 4:27 pm

FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee during the annual open hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 12, 2013.

Louie Gohmert: Mueller wants to impact the election and ‘screw over the president’

Diana Stancy Correll · August 8, 2018 6:17 pm

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at an event.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweets, then deletes fake Winston Churchill quote

Diana Stancy Correll · August 7, 2018 4:44 pm

The Republican Candidate’s Conundrum: To Fawn, or Not to Fawn Over Trump

Chris Deaton · August 6, 2018 5:00 pm