Republicans' razor-thin House majority shrinks further as Democrats set to win Texas special election, giving GOP leadership new headaches in Congress.

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and Amanda Edwards, a former Houston City Council member, are competing in a runoff election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, a safely Democratic seat left vacant by Representative Sylvester Turner’s death in March 2025.

Texas’ gain in population from people moving in from other states has sunk to its lowest level in two decades, according to estimates that the Census Bureau released this week.

Texas executed Charles Victor Thompson for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, and her new boyfriend, Darren Cain, in 1998.

Houston voters who have gone almost a year without representation in the U.S. House will finally fill the seat in a special runoff election.

New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation.

A 5-year-old and his father are in a Texas detention facility after they were detained by ICE officers in Minnesota last week.

Grace "Gracie" Brito is the fifth North Texas child to die in recent winter weather accidents. Her best friend, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Angle, died in the same incident on Saturday.

Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarici differed more on style than substance in their first debate for U.S. Senate in heavily Republican Texas.

The 2026 NFL Draft is months away but experts have predictions of where Texas Longhorns and Texas A&M Aggies will go.

Wake Forest's Sterling Berkhalter is signing with Texas, which had lost five receivers in the portal.