The bill passed 71-29 and will now head to the House, which is not due back until Monday, meaning the government could be in a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until they pass it.View on ...

Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024 ...

What is happening to Leqaa should shake every Texan to their core, no matter their politics,” state Rep. Salman Bhojani, a ...

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Saturday that expands the state Supreme Court from five justices to seven as frustration ...

House leaders are aiming to expedite consideration of the Senate's deal to fund the government as a shutdown looms after ...

Patrick’s initial five-item to-do list also included assessing risks posed by hostile foreign entities to the grid’s supply ...

Florida’s book-banning law does not need more teeth; it needs to be defanged. Voting down HB 1119/SB 1692 should be the first step. Better free-speech protections for libraries, librarians and ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the president of the state senate, has released his first round of interim changes for committees in the next legislative session.

Texas House District 106 in eastern Denton County includes parts of Frisco and Denton as well as Aubrey, Celina and Little Elm. It is still growing fast, and the infrastructure can barely keep up with ...

With choice words and blunt instruments, people chipped away at obstacles in Washington this week — and it wasn’t just the “snowcrete.” ...

Texas passed a new AI law in 2025 and is now in effect as we enter 2026. Here's the details about the AI law. I focus on AI ...

Senate Bill 4 returns to the 5th Circuit with border crossings at record lows, a sharp reversal from the influx that inspired Texas’ law authorizing state police to arrest undocumented immigrants.