Tag: Texas

"These bills are not about election reform," said one Harris County official. "They are entirely about suppressing voters' voices."

“I can only describe it as a hate crime. It was motivated by hate.”

The lawmaker was facing an expulsion hearing after an internal investigation found he had furnished a 19-year-old staffer with alcohol and later tried to intimidate her into silence about what transpired and their relationship.

According to an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, the majority of the state’s 19 mass shootings over the past six decades were carried out by men who legally possessed firearms.

Texas is the No. 1 state in the U.S. for discharging of toxic pollutants into streams, rivers and lakes. 

The estimated total debt of the more than 100 students in Wiley College's class of 2022 totaled $300,000.

The virtually unlimited access to firearms in the U.S. simply makes it easy for a disgruntled impulse-driven person to have a killing machine an arm's-length away when the red mist descends upon him.

"Don't look away," said one advocacy group. "Rally against the NRA."

Republican lawmakers in at least four states this week advanced bills banning or limiting abortion access.

When a Canadian company started drilling for oil and gas near Jim and Sue Franklin’s ranch in a small Permian Basin town...