Newsweek contacted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows, who filed the legal petition, for ...

On Tuesday, the Texas State Senate approved the new maps which are aimed at flipping as many as five Texas seats in the U.S. House of Representatives from Democratic to Republican. That includes three ...

The Texas House is set to reconvene on Friday in Austin. If Democratic lawmakers continue to hold out, a second special session will be called by Gov. Greg Abbott.

As California Democrats prepare to try to redraw the state’s congressional maps in response to a Republican-led effort in Texas, a patchwork coalition is forming to stop them.

If a quorum is not met in the Texas House on Friday, House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Gov. Abbott have confirmed they plan to ...

An Illinois judge ruled that the state will not enforce civil warrants against Texas House Democrats that left the state during the special legislative session.

House Democrats seem set on remaining out of state as long as it takes to block a new Republican-backed congressional map.

After failing to reach quorum for the special session that was called, Governor Greg Abbott is calling for a second one to be ...

Gov. Greg Abbott says he'll call another special session if Texas' House Democrats don't return by the end of the week. FOX News' Sarah Alegre reported live from Austin.

Texas House Democrats will issue our demands for a second special session on Friday,” Democratic leader Gene Wu wrote. “Abbott can choose to govern for Texas families, or he can ...

The upper chamber also advanced bills that would replace the STAAR with three shorter exams, make it a crime to provide abortion-inducing medication and limit the public disclosure of police personnel ...