Tag: Texas

A woman from Texas shared her messages with Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, to the press and said the two had been talking for several years on Facebook Messenger. The correspondence focused mainly on politics, but some were sexually suggestive. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rep. Joe Barton exchanged sexually suggestive Facebook messages with Texas woman: Report

Melissa Quinn · November 29, 2017 9:03 pm

Air Force officials said the error in the case of former airman Devin Kelley, who fatally shot 26 people at a church in Texas earlier this month, was not the only one, and their review has found "similar reporting lapses in other locations." (Texas Department of Public Safety via AP, File)

National Security

Air Force says Texas shooter background check mistake is one of dozens of similar cases

Kelly Cohen · November 28, 2017 8:41 pm

Gregg Pitts, left, and Brooks Brunson read to their son, Thomas Brunson-Pitts, 6 months, before heading to work in the morning at their home in Washington. Married in 2013, Brooks Brunson and Gregg Pitts always knew they wanted to have a family together, and were delighted when they were able to start the adoption process for their son. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Fight over religious liberty vs. LGBT rights expands to adoption

Kimberly Leonard · November 28, 2017 5:01 am

Under Kathleen Hartnett White's six-year tenure at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state realized impressive declines in the levels of pollution during that time. For example, from 2000 to 2006, Houston (pictured above) grew by approximately 1 million people, a 25 percent increase, and yet saw eight-hour ozone design values plunge 26 percent. (Alex Garrido / Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

How one Trump nominee combined environmental quality and economic development

Charles McConnell · November 27, 2017 5:01 am

With Texas' appeal, there are now three challenges to state dismemberment abortion bans pending in the appellate courts. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Beltway Confidential

Federal judge rules that gruesome form of abortion is constitutional

Margot Cleveland · November 24, 2017 4:11 pm

Julia Poff, 46, mailed the explosives to those three officials in October 2016, according to indictments. (Image courtesy screenshot)

National Security

Cat hair helps catch would-be Obama bomber

Pete Kasperowicz · November 23, 2017 4:28 pm

NICS is "critically important" to protecting Americans from gun violence, Sessions said in the Wednesday memo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jeff Sessions directs FBI, ATF to review gaps in federal background check system for guns

Kelly Cohen · November 22, 2017 11:10 pm

The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the city's ordinance that requires pregnancy care centers run by anti-abortion groups to post signs about abortions in their waiting rooms violates the First Amendment. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Judge strikes down Texas abortion ban

Robert King · November 22, 2017 11:01 pm

An anonymous Twitter account began circulating the photo that shows a naked man resembling Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Joe Barton apologizes after nude photo circulates on social media

Melissa Quinn · November 22, 2017 7:10 pm

Capt. Paul Barbour has been identified as the pilot killed in the T-38 Talon crash in Texas on Monday. (Barksdale Air Force Base photo)

National Security

Air Force identifies pilot killed in T-38 trainer crash

David Brown · November 22, 2017 6:17 pm

One pilot was killed and another was rushed to the hospital after a T-38 trainer crashed Monday afternoon about 14 miles northwest of Laughlin Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force courtesty photo/Bobbi Zapka)

National Security

Air Force suspends trainer flights at Texas base after deadly crash

David Brown · November 21, 2017 6:45 pm

Last year, four fraternities were suspended from Texas State. In doing so, Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Tau Omega, and Kappa Alpha received numerous years of suspension due to a death of a student at a joint Halloween party last year. (Billy Hathorn / Wikimedia Commons)

Texas State joins list of universities banning Greek Life after tragedy

Mason McKie · November 21, 2017 6:31 pm