It was a showdown of sorts in western Texas as James Talarico and Ken Paxton appeared at dueling rallies on either side of a prairie-dog-filled city park.
The Texas attorney general has been silent about his relationship with Tracy Duhon, a New Orleans woman who has built a personal brand around faith and redemption.
Dr. Jennifer Shuford, a respected former Texas health official, had been appointed by President Trump to help steady the agency.
Much of the online discourse about Senate races in Texas and Kansas is coming from accounts that appear to be automated, according to new research.
Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas had waged an unusually public campaign against the denomination’s demands for control.
The strange story behind the first federal terrorism prosecution of American protesters.
Mr. Paxton, the Republican candidate for Senate in Texas, has taken about 350 trips outside of the state since he was sworn in as attorney general.
Millions of early votes tell us less than many would think, but there are key takeaways from results in Texas, Kansas, Georgia and North Carolina.
It’s crunch time and still looking bullish for Democrats.
From San Antonio to London, hotels are taking the music theme seriously, offering concerts, listening rooms, studios and more.
On the trail, James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee, has increasingly gone after Mr. Musk, a critic of his who has given big to a group aligned with the Republican candidate, Ken Paxton.
A deputy in small-town Texas became the local face of ICE’s national crackdown.
The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in the “culture wars.”
Hope, dread and the final stretch to Election Day.
A New York Times investigation shows how President Trump allowed companies to skirt rules designed to limit toxic pollution.
“Populism is about economic power,” Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for governor in Texas, said on “The Interview.”
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate for governor in Texas, talked about Elon Musk’s businesses in the state on “The Interview.”
The Democratic nominee for governor on her appeal to MAGA voters and her refusal to engage in “the culture wars.”
Throughout his four terms in the Texas House, James Talarico has tried to balance his two political identities.
Russian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.
A lower court judge had halted the administration’s plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in the Big Bend region of Texas.
A deal would consolidate Elon Musk’s holdings in rockets, cars and artificial intelligence into a company worth well over $3 trillion.
As several states report surges in animal cases, federal officials are warning about an apparent increase in human exposures.
In Tarrant County, a fight over polling places has energized Democrats as Republicans seek to defend their grip on a longtime stronghold.
Our interview with James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas.
The messages purporting to offer help for transgender students are tied to a group set up last month in Wyoming.
James Talarico joined Michael Barbaro on “The Daily” to talk about why he thinks he can become the first Democrat in Texas to be elected to the Senate in 40 years. If he and his party successfully flip the chamber, would he consider impeaching President Trump or members of his cabinet?
The latest weapon is a machine that shoots carbon dioxide into rats’ burrows. “They fall asleep — permanently,” a parks official said.
The man had been detained at an immigration center in Laredo, Texas, since June. Immigration officials said he had received proper medical care.
Early voting in Texas, where the outcome of the Senate race could determine which party controls the chamber, will run through Oct. 30.
The Texas attorney general’s powers could come under scrutiny in a close Senate contest, though election experts say courts would likely constrain him.
The Democratic candidate invoked a rallying cry from the TV show “Friday Night Lights” as he began his final campaign push before the Nov. 3 election.
With midterm elections approaching, organizers of the demonstrations known for their anti-Trump sentiment are urging people to vote early.
Ken Paxton’s bus tour of Texas comes as polls have shown the race for Senate is increasingly close. His rival, James Talarico, is scheduled to kick off a similar tour on Sunday.
In “Redemption,” the Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright asks whether people sentenced to die in Texas should have a second chance.
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
The world’s richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton’s Senate bid in Texas.
Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in 2024 with two men wanted on federal charges, one of whom donated at least $190,000 to his campaigns. The extent of his ties to the men was unclear.
A retired general, a Catholic archbishop for the military and one of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s victims were among those who had spoken out.
ICE agents rammed a man during a pursuit in Houston, leaving him with a shattered leg. But a bulletin of the target shows a man who died in 2017, his daughter said.
More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school.
Una investigación muestra cómo niños de entre 10 y 13 años son remitidos al sistema legal por exabruptos comunes de su edad, o infracciones como vapear, que no representan una amenaza grave real.
The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.
Voting rights groups sued the Texas Department of Public Safety and the secretary of state over delayed voter registrations that overwhelmed local election workers.
President Trump canceled the planned livestream of the Fort Hood shooter’s execution. Mr. Trump said that only the victims’ immediate families will be able to watch the execution in person on Dec. 3.
The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.
We look at the costliest race in America.
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
An ICE agent struck a Mexican construction worker, Miguel Parra Hernandez, with a vehicle on Saturday. Mr. Parra Hernandez was hospitalized with hip and ankle injuries, according to an immigrant rights group.
A quarter-billion dollars to help Republicans hold Congress.
The Harris County district attorney said investigators from his office did not believe that the crash that left Miguel Parra Hernandez injured over the weekend was accidental.
A Texas mother is suing the president of Students for Life of America and others in the group over an Instagram post that appeared to boast about ordering abortion pills in Houston.
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
Here’s one fan’s guide to visiting some of the genre’s fabled filming locations, from “The Shining” to “Friday the 13th.”
Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to be true.
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
The new contract would provide raises and better benefits, following similar deals at other big airlines.
Since the end of a pandemic-era policy that barred states from removing people from Medicaid, Texas has dropped over half a million people from the program, more than any other state.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
Hay nuevas vacunas contra la COVID-19 que funcionan. Pero también hay menos puntos de vacunación, menos alcance y menos soluciones creativas para generar conciencia y aumentar el acceso a las inyecciones.
Getting shots into arms isn’t rocket science, or at least it shouldn’t be.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
The death of at least 53 migrants in Texas, more than half of whom were from Mexico, is testing U.S. efforts to enlist Mexico in deterring migration.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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