The Texas congressman has drawn some of the campaign's youngest, biggest and most ardent crowds, but has yet to win a state. Key contests are coming up in Colorado, Minnesota and Maine.

U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said in a ruling Monday that he cannot stop a new sonogram law from taking effect and pointedly suggested that three appellate court judges who overruled him last month had misapplied an earlier federal court decision involving abortion.

A federal judge swiftly rejected a proposed temporary fix to Texas’ months-long fight over redistricting on Monday, ordering all sides to keep talking just hours after a compromise was announced by the attorney general and immediately condemned by several minority advocacy groups.

U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks dismissed a lawsuit challenging Texas' pre-abortion sonogram requirement, saying Monday that he had no choice despite his continued belief that the law violates the U.S. Constitution.

Two American brothers of a Mexican casino magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the United States and has been seeking a pardon enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama’s re-election campaign.

Rep. Ron Paul appears to have been paid twice for flights between Washington, D.C., and his Congressional district, receiving reimbursement from taxpayers and also from a network of political and nonprofit organizations he controlled, according to public records and documents obtained by Roll Call.

A major political party in Mexico has chosen a female presidential candidate for the first time, as the ruling party bet that a charismatic former congresswoman will help it erode the lead held by its powerful rival.

Ron Paul, trailing in delegates needed for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, could be positioning himself to force his party to accept changes in the way the Federal Reserve operates.

But the tranquility has been broken by plans to operate an oil field waste dump less than a mile from town. Zapata County commissioners officially oppose the dump, and protest letters are pouring in to the Railroad Commission of Texas.

It all boils down to one document: a letter to Formula One officials from Comptroller Susan Combs dated May 10, 2010. In it, she said “certify” and “full funding.” That wording has prompted a request for a state opinion, asking if the comptroller overstepped her authority.

Just as in the other early presidential states, Ron Paul surpassed his 2008 performance Saturday. But in a state where expectations for his campaign were higher than anywhere else to date, the Texas congressman’s third-place finish marked an underwhelming outcome for a candidate whose strategy is predicated on running well in caucus states like Nevada.

A special Saturday night Republican caucus here intended to accommodate Orthodox Jews who could not vote before sundown became the scene of controversy and confrontation after caucusgoers were told that to be admitted they had to sign a legal declaration under penalty of perjury that they could not attend their daytime caucus because of “my religious beliefs.”

With the Texas primary date tied up in a legal battle over redistricting, no one is sure what impact Texas voters will have on the outcome of the Republican presidential race. But that's not stopping Alice Linahan from making calls and rallying the troops.

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are fighting for the right to be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. But they both lost that battle in Nevada — to Ron Paul.

But for the silver hair, the baggy eyes and the grandchildren, the 76-year-old man running for president today — carrying the torch for a gold-based currency, agitating to “end the Fed,” warning of threats to personal freedom and prophesying imminent economic collapse — is almost indistinguishable from the Ron Paul of half a century ago.

A day after losing a Nevada contest that exposed the limits of his appeal to Republicans, Ron Paul vowed to keep pressing ahead for the party's presidential nomination, saying his ideas were inspiring an intellectual revolution among young Americans.

Several state and federal lawmakers who received more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from an El Paso businessman convicted on public corruption charges have not donated the money to charities as they said they would.

Texans politicians like to tout the state's economic growth, but more and more Texans are finding themselves teetering on the edge of poverty.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has pulled in $1.14 million in donations to help its drought-ravaged and fire-singed parks system overcome a $4.6 million budget shortfall.

Former city Rep. Beto O'Rourke said Friday he will keep $3,100 in campaign contributions from his mother who owns Charlotte's Inc., an El Paso furniture store convicted of circumventing IRS disclosure laws in 2010.

That dead magnolia tree in the backyard, sucked dry by the drought, is your problem. If you live in Harris County, however, you are paying to get rid of those leafless oaks in the local park, too.

Under the 2010 federal health care reform law, Texas is reviewing medical insurance companies' rate increases of at least 10 percent to determine whether they are justified, but even if reviewers find a problem, they have no way of heading it off or even letting the public know about it.

With the spotlight on Nevada, most people have probably forgotten that Maine’s caucuses also begin today.

Longing to hang a cross on the door? Wishing that you could capture all the rainwater that's been gushing off the roof lately?