The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing.

Texas lawmakers passed two bills that will bring sweeping change to how youth camps are regulated. House Bill 1 and Senate Bill 1 passed late Wednesday and are scheduled to be signed by Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday.

More than 10,000 people met over Labor Day weekend in Slaton to sample the banana pudding — a major boost to the rural town’s economy.

Lawmakers in Missouri are the latest to try to draw a new U.S. House map for the 2026 election that could enhance the Republican Party’s numbers in Congress.

The new maps, which aim to flip five Democratic seats to favor Republicans, will go into effect for the 2026 midterms, barring court intervention.

Both legislative chambers adjourned without agreeing on changes to Senate Bill 2, which aimed to create new training and licensing requirements for local officials.

Between cracking down on abortion pills and restricting transgender restroom use, lawmakers also tackled flood safety and the STAAR test. Left untouched: Texas’ hemp industry.

A bill scrapping the state’s standardized test heads over to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It would replace STAAR with three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year.

A bill that would let Texas residents sue out-of-state abortion pill providers for up to $100,000 has been passed by lawmakers and sent to the governor.

Legislators couldn’t reach a last-minute deal to tighten regulations on consumable hemp products.

The House refused to back a bill that would apply only to the state’s largest cities.

A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts.

House Bill 7, which would allow people to sue manufacturers and distributors of the drug, is one vote away from Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.

The bill walks back a measure lawmakers passed earlier this year allowing voters to update their address at the polls and immediately vote in their new precinct and district if their move was within the county.

House members who freeze future legislation by fleeing Texas will face steeper fines, loss of seniority and committee posts, and limits on political fundraising.

The new law is one of the toughest in the country regarding vaping, essentially eliminating the disposable vape category until it’s from U.S. manufacturers.

Audrii’s Law is now in effect and will help protect children across Texas from child predators.

California voters will decide in November whether to OK a new congressional map that would benefit Democrats.

Officials say potentially hundreds of residents have been affected after a large fire ripped through a Spring Branch apartment complex Tuesday evening.

Gov. Greg Abbott has announced that he directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) to activate state emergency response resources ahead of heavy rain expected to impact the state through Labor Day weekend.

The governor was expected to sign off on the new district lines, which passed the Legislature last week and aim to flip five Democratic seats in the 2026 midterms.

The suit alleges the new state law unconstitutionally silences the viewpoints of students and teachers. The law’s supporters say DEI programs use public funds to promote political agendas.

Missouri’s Republican governor is calling a special legislative session to redraw the state’s U.S. House districts.

Senate Bill 8 restricts bathroom use in government buildings and schools to sex assigned at birth.

House Bill 26 advanced out of the Texas Legislature on Wednesday evening, two days after being added to the second special session’s agenda.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. complimented Texas as Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a prohibition on using state tax dollars on specific products with additives, among other measures.

Gov. Greg Abbott will ceremonially sign Texas’ Make America Healthy Again legislation Wednesday afternoon at the Texas Capitol in Austin.

Voting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters.

Utah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The measure comes four years after the state’s highest criminal court ruled the agency could not bring election cases without an invitation from local prosecutors.

The Utah Legislature will need to rapidly redraw the state’s congressional boundaries after a judge ruled the Republican-controlled body circumvented safeguards put in place by voters to ensure districts aren’t drawn to favor any party.

Legislation pushed by Gov. Greg Abbott would bar voters at the polls from immediately casting a ballot based on a last-minute update to their address.

A Dallas businessman has proposed studying the aquifer to see if he can pump millions of gallons out of East Texas, a plan that residents distrust.

Democrats said the walkout inspired a national protest against GOP redistricting. But it also greased the path for other bills they oppose and unified Texas Republicans.

The Texas Senate has passed a controversial new congressional redistricting map following a failed filibuster attempt by Democratic State Senator Carol Alvarado. The map, which now awaits Governor Greg Abbott’s final approval, is expected to bolster Republican control by potentially adding up to five new GOP seats in the U.S. House.

One lawsuit, filed by LULAC on behalf of 13 Texas residents, states that the redrawn districts in the new map are racially discriminatory and violate voter protection laws.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.

Gavin Newsom is having a moment.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.

The Alaska State Medical Board has approved preliminary language that could result in disciplinary action against medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

A Texas Senate panel has advanced a controversial new congressional map, moving it one step closer to Governor Greg Abbott’s approval — and one step further from what Democrats call fair representation.

The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country has a four-pronged recovery plan: rebuilding homes, supporting mental health, economic recovery, and reviving the area’s quality of life.

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It’s unclear what the announcement could entail, but Menefee's team says it will demonstrate “strong unity in the face of Republican redistricting efforts.”

President Donald Trump is praising his military crackdown on crime and immigration in Washington, D.

California voters will decide in a November special election whether to approve a redrawn congressional map designed to help Democrats win five more U.S. House seats next year.

The governor announced he was expanding his special session agenda shortly after the Texas House passed a congressional map that Democrats had delayed by leaving the state.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

Immigrants face increased risks this hurricane season due to aggressive immigration enforcement.

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP.

Texas’ Democrats have returned to the state, ending their two-week-long boycott of Governor Greg Abbott’s special legislative session.

Texas Democrats are joining a colleague who can't leave the state Capitol because she won't agree to having law enforcement officers shadow her.

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday.

Texas Democrats have ended a two-week walkout that stalled efforts to redraw congressional districts as part of a national partisan brawl over President Donald Trump’s desire to reshape U.S. House maps to his advantage.

Senators moved fast on Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session. With House Democrats back in Texas, bills can now move through that chamber.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced the plan Monday which is meant to invest in state roadways to meet the demands of Texas’ growing population and economy.

Democratic lawmakers who walked out will now be subject to an around-the-clock escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety, Burrows said

Texas lawmakers redrew congressional districts in a partisan bid to give Republicans five additional U.S. House seats. The move set off a bipartisan war across the U.S.

After two weeks out of state, Democratic lawmakers returned to Austin, paving the way for Republicans to pass their proposed congressional map.

Texas House Democrats are expected to return to the state capitol on Monday after weeks of breaking quorum.

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.

Democrats have struggled to find effective ways to oppose President Donald Trump, and even some Democratic voters describe the party as weak.

Mounted patrol officers, known as tick riders, who typically patrol the southern border to protect cattle from fever tick, will also now serve as the first line of defense against screwworm.

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies to ramp up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots now in Mexico from damaging the American cattle industry.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for another Texas Legislature’s special session after the first session was adjourned Friday morning after failing to make a quorum.

The second session is set to consider the same agenda that stalled in the first, with redistricting and disaster response at the top of the governor’s priorities.

The third-term governor appears determined to win any battle — even if it means scorched-earth primary crusades or trying to boot duly elected legislators from office.

Democrats have unveiled a proposal that could give California’s dominant political party an additional five U.S. House seats in a bid to win the fight to control Congress next year.

In a statement, the House Democratic Caucus said its lawyers had advised returning “to build a strong public legislative record for the upcoming legal battle” against the GOP’s map.

With Democrats’ walkout over redistricting bringing the House to a standstill, both parties are accusing each other of abandoning Central Texas flood victims.

In this week’s episode, Matthew and Eleanor ask University of Houston law professor David Froomkin to help them break down the legal cases seeking to remove 13 Democrats from the Texas House.

Democrats' absence has halted work in the Texas House, which must also approve the new boundaries, for more than a week.

In a dramatic turn of events, Texas Senate Democrats staged a walkout on Tuesday, challenging Governor Greg Abbott’s decision to prioritize redistricting over urgent flood relief for the state’s devastated communities.

The leaders of both chambers said they would adjourn for the session Friday if Democrats do not return, while the governor said he might add more items to his agenda.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is escalating the partisan redistricting fight by asking a judge to hold progressive activist Beto O'Rourke in contempt.

The governor and attorney general have asked the court to find that Democratic lawmakers abandoned their seats when they left Texas to delay a new congressional map.

Since Democratic lawmakers left Texas to delay Republicans’ new map, state leaders have challenged the limits of traditional democratic norms to break the impasse.

With no sign of Texas Democrats returning soon, Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to call a series of special legislative sessions. He says he is authorized to call these sessions every 30 days.

Republicans who are censured by their county party leaders may be blocked from the primary ballot under a new party rule passed last year, that is expected to be tested by the courts.

Texas Republicans are trying to reconvene the state Legislature to vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party's favor.

With only a week left in the Texas special legislative session, key bills addressing crucial issues like flood relief and redistricting hang in the balance.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Gov. Greg Abbott previously asked the court to expel Rep. Gene Wu, the House Democratic leader. Paxton disputed the governor’s authority to make the request.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have appeared shoulder-to-shoulder with Texas Democratic lawmakers in a show of support for their nearly weeklong walkout.

Democrats concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps. But they want to encourage blue states to retaliate.

In response to Texas Democrats blocking the quorum needed for redistricting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dustin Burrows, and Attorney General Ken Paxton are turning up the heat—threatening legal action and seeking federal help to bring the lawmakers back.

"We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities," U.S. Senator John Cornyn said in a statement.

The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.

Texas Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a Republican plan for congressional redistricting are pleading for donations to help cover their costs.

The proposal would put tighter limits on how much property tax revenue cities and counties of a certain size can collect each year.

While the Democrats could technically derail the GOP’s redistricting map, such efforts have been largely symbolic and had limited success blocking past legislation, experts say.

A tweet by Sen. Mayes Middleton questioning if Houston lawmaker Gene Wu was "back in China" sparked backlash amid a Democratic walkout to block GOP redistricting plans.

A redistricting battle for partisan advantage in Congress is spreading across states.

Starting April 1, 2026, Texans who use SNAP benefits won’t be able to buy candy or sweetened drinks — including sodas and artificially sweetened beverages. The change, approved by the federal government, aims to promote healthier food choices.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to remove from office a top state lawmaker he called the “ringleader” of Democrats who left the state to block a vote on a new congressional voting map pushed by President Donald Trump.

Legal experts say it’s “inconsistent with the Texas Constitution” to argue that leaving the state to halt legislative action qualifies as abandoning an office.

As a political chess match wages on against Texas lawmakers and an attempt to block a vote on a “rigged” congressional redistricting map, officials with the Democratic National Convention are joining the effort in Illinois.

The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed the Department of Justice for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that lawmakers believe may show links to President Donald Trump and other former top officials.