Texas voters have listed immigration and border security among their top issues for years, but recent polling found they are less of a priority than at any point in recent history.

Data center construction is unpopular among locals, and a majority of the facilities are being proposed in red, rural counties. That puts Texas Republicans in a tough spot, as the White House has encouraged states to let the centers flourish.

Vice President JD Vance has visited Iowa to promote the administration's tax and tariff policies while campaigning on behalf of Iowa Rep. Zach Nunn.

The U.S. senator won the Hawkeye State during the 2016 Republican primaries. This year he used his appearance to blame Democrats for anti-Semitism and call out GOP Trump foes Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene.

President Donald Trump has taken a shine to the government taking stakes in the private sector.

President Donald Trump says he is weighing a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell the troubled carrier after oil prices drop.

An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., was approved by the House Tuesday.

Conservatives are holding one of their largest annual gatherings as President Donald Trump faces a tough moment and a growing rift over the Iran war.

Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic.

President Donald Trump has predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly.

The first round of primary elections shows this year’s midterm elections will be taking place on shifting political ground for incumbents.

Known as Trey’s law, the legislation would make any non-disclosure agreement unenforceable if it prohibits or restricts revealing the sexual abuse of a minor or facts related to that abuse.

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Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, on Saturday evening said at least 201 people had been killed and more than 700 injured.

Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping up his race for the U.S. Senate with early voting about to begin for the March 3 GOP primary.

A source told the Tribune that Defense Department drones spurred the announced closure, but the White House said unmanned craft were flown by Mexican cartels.

Donald Trump credits the mayor of a small Detroit suburb with helping him win over Michigan's Arab American community during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Even as Trump's approval ratings fall with Latinos, a constellation of grassroots Republicans are working to secure wins in the midterms.

Texas politicians are taking to social media to react to the U.S. strikes in Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Texas’ new law regulating AI is set to take effect Jan. 1, two months after Trump’s executive order threatening to cut off some federal money if states pass “onerous” AI laws.

The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.

The Senate has given final passage to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs.

Democratic senators are criticizing the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to block states from regulating artificial intelligence.

Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is proposing a state program to give every baby born in Texas $1,000 invested in the stock market.

Patrick’s proposal would be in addition to a federal program that is set to give American babies $1,000 each to invest in the stock market.

Billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman is back before the Senate after being yanked and then renominated by President Donald Trump for NASA's top job.

Republicans have held onto a conservative U.S. House district in Tennessee.

Rural leaders who have worked years to improve broadband access said they were disappointed by the sharp decrease in federal dollars.

Residents in the southernmost part of Texas want to remind themselves — and the nation — that the region is more than a political battleground. It’s their home.

Major League Baseball says it will comply with a Senate committee's request for documents on gambling investigations.

After months of resisting calls to release the files, President Donald Trump signaled this week that he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.

The issue roiled Texas politics earlier this year when Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a ban on THC products spearheaded by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Within the legislation to end the longest-ever government shutdown is language that would ban hemp-derived THC products that have anything more than 0.4 milligrams of THC or other cannabinoids that could produce a high per container.

If approved by the House, the agreement would fund the government through the end of January, with certain agencies funded through September, including those that provide food assistance.

The bill is the latest effort from the Texas delegation that demands the U.S. get tougher with Mexico for failing to honor a 1944 treaty that in part governs Rio Grande water.

NBA staff members have met with congressional staffers to discuss the league’s relationship with sportsbooks.

The Justice Department is urging a federal judge to reject James Comey’s claim that his prosecution amounts to political retribution.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ordered the Pentagon to begin planning for potential military action in Nigeria.

President Donald Trump has opened the door for sanctions to be imposed on Nigeria for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the country.

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey want to review a transcript and audio recording of grand jury proceedings in his criminal case, citing what they say were “irregularities” in the process that should result in the dismissal of an indictment pushed by President Donald Trump.

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier will not receive his salary while on leave due to his arrest on federal gambling charges.

Many federal workers missed their first full paycheck this weekend as the shutdown nears the one-month mark.

Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign.

If you’ve been in Washington long enough, you’ve most likely argued both sides of a government shutdown.

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.

Party leaders in Congress have long criticized government shutdowns as toxic and destructive.

The Department of Homeland Security says it will increase security following the deadly shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas.

The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents.

Jimmy Kimmel is back on his ABC late-night show, but not everywhere.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has announced that the Stargate AI data center in Texas will be joined by five more across the U.S. This expansion is part of a $500 billion infrastructure investment promoted by President Donald Trump.

Jimmy Kimmel has returned to late-night TV after a suspension over comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

As they mourn slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump, members of his administration and a broader universe of supporters have seemed to impose a double standard on speech.

Thousands gathered at a North Houston suburb for the summit, where speaker after speaker memorialized Kirk and encouraged young attendees to rise in his place.

President Donald Trump says he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”.

The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Local, state and national political figures from both sides of the aisle are remembering conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed at a Utah college Wednesday.

Aaron Reitz and Chip Roy, positioning themselves as Paxton’s ideological heirs, have served as top aides for both the attorney general and Cruz.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.

Every previous public poll had shown the attorney general with a considerable lead over Texas’ incumbent senator.

Allred says he has learned to show up more in his attempt at a Senate do-over. But critics contend he’s not generating enough attention.

The plan increases the share of Hispanic voters in three of the five districts targeted by the GOP, banking that enough will turn out and vote for Republicans without Donald Trump on the ballot.

The proposed legislation comes amid criticism for cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is set to headline a major Republican event in South Carolina.

Investigators have found that a helicopter involved in a deadly crash with a passenger plane over Washington was flying above its height limit.

The U.S. Army’s head of aviation has changed jobs to become chief of its enterprise marketing office.

President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed a new leader at the Federal Aviation Administration.

A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technologies or minimize such interference.

The package includes $13.5 billion to reimburse states for border spending. It is expected to meet resistance in the House from some Texas Republicans.

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

Democrat Colin Allred is once again running for the U.S. Senate.

Allred lost to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz last year by 8.5 points while outperforming the top of the ticket.

Senate Republicans, Democrats and outside groups are mounting an offensive against Cruz’s push to withhold AI money from states that regulate the technology.

Abbott ordered two Texas agencies to begin working together and with residents and business leaders to stop the spread of the invasive fly before it even starts.

President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear sites in Iran could deepen a divide among some of the Republican’s supporters.

The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Republican proposal that would shift some food stamp costs from the federal government to the states would violate the chamber’s strict rules.

Screwworm is a parasitic fly that targets warm-blooded animals and has the potential to disrupt Texas’ $15 billion cattle industry.

Republican senators are looking into former President Joe Biden's ability to serve in office.

Democrats will need to sort through a pileup of potential candidates who see an opportunity to harness backlash to the Trump administration in next year’s midterms.

The latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports is generating predictable partisan outrage.

Senate Republicans have made changes to their party’s sweeping tax bill in hopes of preserving a new policy that would prevent states from regulating artificial intelligence.

President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are showing no signs of reconciling on Friday, but Republicans are increasingly urging them to settle their dispute.

Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” has died.

Federal action would be needed to make the change legal. Lawmakers at both the state and federal levels have debated the question for decades.

President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act into law.

House Republicans surprised tech industry watchers and outraged many state governments when they added a clause to Republicans’ signature “big, beautiful” tax bill that bans states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade.

Sen. Ted Cruz asked whether a hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it is “unacceptable” that two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online.

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him.

Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.