"We need to ensure that rogue lawmakers cannot hijack the important business of Texans during a legislative session by fleeing the state," Abbott said in a statement.

Now that Democrats have returned to the Texas Capitol in Austin, the GOP-dominated legislature is expected to quickly advance new congressional maps aimed at creating five more Republican-leaning sea...

"Children's religious beliefs should be instilled by parents and faith communities, not politicians and public schools."

A federal judge in Texas temporarily halted on Wednesday a state law that would have required the Ten Commandments to be visibly displayed in every public school classroom by Sept. 1.

Texas is the third state to suffer a court loss over laws for the Ten Commandments to be hung in public school classrooms, following Louisiana and Arkansas.

Parents of young girls who died in last month's flooding in the Texas Hill Country were in Austin on Wednesday to testify about proposed flood safety legislation for camps and campgrounds.

When floodwaters rushed through a girl’s summer camp nestled in the Texas Hill County, Michael McCown’s 8-year-old daughter was among 27 campers and counselors swept to their deaths.

“Training should prepare staff and campers to act, not to wait,” said Matthew Childress, whose camp-counselor daughter, Chloe, 18, died trying to protect young girls under her care.

GOP officials in the state have threatened to arrest the lawmakers to compel their appearance at the state Capitol, and one Republican senator enlisted the help of the FBI to track down the legislato...

Californians had their first chance Tuesday to tell lawmakers how they feel about a partisan plan to win Democrats more U.S. House seats by making a new political map in response to a Republican redi...