Texas

Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico said in a recent interview that he has been influenced by Islamic mystics as much as he has been influenced by Christian authors.

A global semiconductor company has pulled the plug on a controversial data center project in rural Texas after Governor Greg Abbott made clear the development didn't meet the state's standards for protecting residents.

Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to investigate reports of possible instances of birth tourism schemes at hospitals.

A Texas bakery is facing widespread backlash after publishing a message ahead of Independence Day criticizing "what the United States has become."

James Talarico spent part of 2023 on the floor of the Texas House telling reporters that Texas "produce[s] some of the best drag queens in the nation." Now he's running for U.S. Senate, and Republicans aren't letting him forget it.

The Texas State Board of Education approved a proposal mandating that students in public schools read parts of the Bible as part of their academics.

Texas is expected to vote this week on making Bible reading mandatory in public schools.

A Texas district court has permanently blocked the State Commission on Judicial Conduct from disciplining a Christian judge who refused to officiate same-sex weddings, ordering the state body to pay $630,000 in legal fees and awarding the judge $10,000 in compensatory damages.

Attorneys for a Texas county have pushed back against calls from a group to remove a Ten Commandments monument.

James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, just told a Houston podcast that he opposes gender reassignment surgeries for minors. That's a big sentence. It's also a lie. Not in the sense that he didn't say it, but in the sense that he doesn't mean it.