Texas A&M Scales Back Plans for an Israeli Campus
Two years after the announcement of ambitious plans to open a branch campus in Israel, Texas A&M University is scaling back. Full Story
Two years after the announcement of ambitious plans to open a branch campus in Israel, Texas A&M University is scaling back. Full Story
The Cruz campaign has undertaken a months-long effort to profile and target potential supporters, an approach his staff believes has helped propel the Texas senator to the top tier in many states, including Iowa, where he is now in first place. Full Story
Texas gambling regulators will decide Tuesday whether to continue a standoff between the state's racetracks and its top political leaders, with a vote on whether to outlaw a new form of gambling at the tracks. Full Story
Today is the deadline for candidates to file for the 2016 elections — as Democrats, Republicans or independents. And the state's primary elections are only 11 weeks away. Full Story
At the stroke of 6 p.m. Monday, candidate filing with state parties will close and Texans will finally know who is — and isn’t — running for office in 2016. Full Story
Today marks a red-letter day in Texas politics, the deadline for political hopefuls in 2016 to file for a place on their respective party primary ballots. Full Story
Trey Martinez Fischer and José Menéndez will once again battle over Texas Senate District 26 — a rematch of their special election runoff earlier this year, when the latter prevailed. Full Story
Former state Rep. Lon Burnam, a Fort Worth Democrat, said Sunday that he has filed to run for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the state agency that regulates oil and gas development. Full Story
Donald Trump is expanding his criticism of Ted Cruz, once his closest ally in the Republican race for the White House. Full Story
State Rep. Sylvester Turner narrowly won the Houston mayoral runoff Saturday night against former Kemah Mayor Bill King, keeping Texas' largest city under Democratic control. Full Story
Negotiators from nearly 200 nations, including the United States, struck an unprecedented climate agreement on Saturday that could have big implications for Texas — and also face big pushback from state leaders. Full Story
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has edged closer to cementing his frontrunner status in the crucial early state of Iowa after claiming the top spot in a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll. Full Story
Gun rights activists held a mock shooting at the University of Texas Saturday to protest new rules for carrying weapons on campus, while counter-protesters waved sex toys and made farting sounds to try to ridicule them. Full Story
Almost two months after Texas Republican leaders announced they would kick Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid, the organization is still receiving funds to provide health care for about 13,500 low-income women a year. Full Story
We've added the salaries for employees of Dallas ISD and Travis County to our Government Salaries Explorer. Use the explorer to view government salaries by gender, ethnicity, length of employment and more for more than 400,000 state employees. Full Story
Billionaire Donald Trump on Friday went on the offensive against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, putting an end to the most closely watched alliance in the GOP race for the White House. Full Story
A Collin County judge has thrown out Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's motions to dismiss the charges in his financial fraud case. Full Story
President Barack Obama has endorsed Sylvester Turner in the Houston mayoral runoff, a race expected to go down to the wire Saturday between the longtime state representative and former Kemah Mayor Bill King. Full Story
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is planning another major swing through the South to show off his presidential campaign's organization deep into the primary calendar, visiting 12 cities over the course of a week. Full Story
Houston voters will get the final say Saturday on who their next mayor will be — Bill King or Sylvester Turner — capping a race that seems to have increasingly laid the city's political identity on the line. Full Story