Topic: Beto O'Rourke

Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd announced Thursday he is running for president, becoming the first Texan with experience in elective office to enter the Republican primary.

Texas Democratic Rep. Colin Allred announced Wednesday that he would challenge Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.

Republican incumbents Brian Kemp of Georgia and Greg Abbott of Texas each won reelection in their gubernatorial races Tuesday, while Democrats took contests in Maryland and New York.

This weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live" looked for humor in the field of Democrat candidates for president for 2024.

For five months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bused migrants to Democrat-led cities to draw attention to the number of people arriving at the border. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken it to another level.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously denied a posthumous pardon of George Floyd for a minor 2004 drug conviction in Houston. The decision comes 11 months after the agency initially recommended a pardon.

Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke announced the temporary pause of his campaign on Sunday due to illness.

With a punishing heat wave across Texas driving record high power demand, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas late Sunday sent out a request that Texans cut back on their energy use Monday.

The bodies of dozens of people were found late on Monday inside and around a tractor-trailer abandoned on the side of a road just outside of San Antonio, authorities and officials said.

The morning after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe vs. Wade, stripping from millions the constitutional protection to seek an abortion, Texas state Rep. Erin Zwiener went out into her district to knock on doors.