Smithee has represented the Panhandle in the Texas House for 40 years. He ran for speaker last year and most recently served as chair of the criminal jurisprudence committee.

The debate over whether to extend the pandemic-era tax credits is at the center of the federal government shutdown, which is ...

Find out which North Texas city is the largest in the nation to be run by a Republican mayor in this fact brief.

The redistricting opposition camps struggled with money and messaging, especially in the days leading up to the election.

US stocks came off session lows on Friday as investors weighed bearish consumer sentiment data and odds that the AI ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP, following a week of indecision about the program’s fate ...

Following the large voter-approved measure of California's gerrymandering effort to send more Democrats to Congress, Gov.

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California Republicans are blaming each other about their overwhelming loss on Proposition 50, the congressional ...

Flight delays are expanding as air traffic controller staffing problems persist despite mandated cuts to flights. About 800 flights have been canceled, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned ...

As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — ...

In his first Truth Social post commenting on the election results, Trump suggested that the reasons why Democrats won is ...