How to deal with, or talk about, foreigners who commit crimes in the United States — the government’s term for them is the politically incorrect “criminal aliens” — has prompted heated calls for vastly different solutions. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/08/MHN_TTBORDER_097-3.jpg)
Candidates Ron Hale, Weston Martinez and Lance Christian say they would support a proposal barring railroad commissioners from accepting political donations from parties doing business before the commission. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2013/06/21/RRC-Seal.jpg)
Two former staffers for state Rep. Dawnna Dukes say they found their work a hectic balancing act, fitting in legislative work with the Austin's lawmaker's ever expanding list of personal errands. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/09/20/Dawnna_DukesTT.jpg)
Real estate magnate Donald Trump is widely expected to finish first here, and U.S. Sen Ted Cruz is part of a five-man pileup for second place. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/08/160208_TT_ABO_CRUZ-MANCHESTER_004.jpg)
A federal judge has once again denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's efforts to keep the federal government from resettling Syrian refugees in the state. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/11/22/UP9A0138.jpg)
Now that Donald Trump is a leading presidential candidate, the age where we scoff at people for "ad hominem" arguments appears to be over, writes public school librarian Sara Stevenson. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/01/CMS_TrumpCB0431.jpg)
The Texas Board of Disciplinary Appeals Monday upheld the disbarment of former Burleson County District Attorney Charles Sebesta Jr. for professional misconduct in the capital murder case of Anthony Graves. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/gavel.jpg)
Two years after knocking off an incumbent in the Republican primary, state Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, is fighting off his own challenger who argues Tinderholt is out of the mainstream. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/05/HD94_2.jpg)
The presidential field is shrinking, but the nominations won’t be decided until Texans have spoken. It’s partly a matter of timing and partly a matter of size. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/02/20160201_Cruz_454.jpg)
The pivotal and increasingly more difficult to predict GOP presidential primary in New Hampshire will happen tomorrow with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz campaigning with an urgency similar to his efforts in Iowa. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/07/160207_TT_ABO_CRUZ-PETERBOROUGH_016.jpg)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz made his pitch to New Hampshire Republicans Sunday as the GOP nomination fight took on new levels of volatility. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/07/CRUZ-PETERBOROUGH_007.jpg)
Unprompted and in the final days of his New Hampshire primary campaign, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz unleashed ire at the notion of drafting women into military combat. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/07/CRUZ-PETERBOROUGH_004.jpg)
When she was a federal prosecutor in Texas, Sarah Saldaña was seen as hard-nosed and nonpartisan. Since President Obama appointed her to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, she's learned to take hits from the left and right. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/16/TRIBUNE_ICE_SALDANA_012-Edit.jpg)
Donald Trump reserved his fire for Ted Cruz until the final moments of Saturday's GOP debate. The debate then wrapped, depriving Cruz of the chance to respond in real time. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/06/New_Hamshire_Debate_Cruz_and_TrumpTT.jpg)
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz apologized to Republican rival Ben Carson for a second time at Saturday night's GOP debate for what Carson has described as "dirty tricks" during Monday's Iowa caucuses. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/06/New_Hamshire_Debate_Cruz_and_CarsonTT.jpg)
The upcoming primary face-off between incumbent Gene Green and Adrian Garcia in Houston's 29th congressional district will test case the influence of identity politics in Texas Democratic races. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/05/2016-02-03_29THCONGRESSDISTRICT_8240.jpg)
Sandra Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, has added 10 Waller County officials in a federal lawsuit over her daughter's 2015 death in the Waller County Jail. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/07/16/CKCoKC5WEAATZ1S.jpg_large.jpg)
The State Auditor's Office is investigating whether state Rep. Dawnna Dukes improperly required her legislative staffers to participate in work for a nonprofit group that she founded, a Capitol source told The Texas Tribune on Friday. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/05/_DSC7923.jpg)
As Texas regulators weigh the Ray L. Hunt family’s plan to buy Oncor, the state's largest electric utility, and reorganize its corporate structure to save on taxes, at least one other giant utility is considering a similar move. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/powerlines-sunset.jpg)
The Harris County Sheriff's Office has decided to keep secret its investigative files on a Mexican national whose 2015 shooting spree in Houston left two people dead and three injured. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/02/08/Reyes-VictorTT.jpg)