As Republicans in the state move this week toward passing their major bill of voting restrictions, questions remain about whether it will include the most far-reaching measures that were initially proposed.
The 9-month-old Bengal named India is expected to be taken to a ranch, the Houston police said.
Republicans seeking to restrict voting are proposing strict punishments for election officials and workers who make errors or violate the rules.
A court hearing for Victor Hugo Cuevas began on Friday. Police said he was involved with the disappearance of a tiger that was last seen on Sunday wandering a Houston neighborhood.
Jessica González, a state representative, is at the center of the state’s furor over Republican voting restrictions. She believes Democrats have both legal and political ways to hit back.
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A man linked to the tiger, which was last seen on Sunday, was released from jail on Wednesday after being charged with evading arrest.
Briscoe Cain stumbled through questions about “purity of the ballot box” language in Texas’ voting bill, acknowledging he was unaware that it evoked Jim Crow policies of the past. He is the bill’s sponsor.
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The man who was seen with the big cat was taken into custody on Monday night, the police said. But the tiger’s whereabouts remained unknown.
The state’s Republican-controlled Legislature is likely to decide this week on a path forward for sweeping new voting restrictions. Here’s what’s in the bill and what could happen in the coming days.
Quintin Phillippe Jones is scheduled to be executed on May 19. Today I tell the story of our friendship in the hope that it will save his life.
Quin Jones, a death row inmate with nine days to live has a message for Governor Abbott of Texas: Please stop my execution.
Maybe Texas needs a philosopher king to lead it.
His reviews for Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone and Creem were admired. But his tough criticism at The Austin American-Statesman inspired a “Dump Ed Ward” movement.
The former presidential aspirants Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro spoke to a crowd demonstrating outside the State Capitol.
With “On Juneteenth,” Gordon-Reed recalls integrating her town’s school, and explains why she thinks back fondly on her native state.
The efforts in two critical battleground states with booming populations and 70 Electoral College votes between them represent the apex of the Republican effort to roll back access to voting.
There is movement in virtually every state with a Republican-controlled legislature — including Michigan and Arizona, where G.O.P. lawmakers are conducting an unorthodox audit of the November results.
The author of “Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing” has been a “cable guy,” a barista and Air Force airman. Her time behind a bar taught her to listen.
The SN15 Starship prototype touched down in one piece after a brief test flight over Texas on Wednesday. Several previous landings had ended in fiery explosions.
Working on the audio documentary “Odessa” gave one producer a painful look at the post-lockdown emotional struggles of teenagers.
A lawyer known as the D.W.I. Dude pocketed money that he told drug dealers would be used to bribe officials, prosecutors said.
John Cameron Denton, 27, and his co-conspirators, who targeted journalists, a cabinet secretary and a Black church, were fueled by racial animosity, federal prosecutors said.
Police officers in Houston responded to a kidnapping tip on Friday and found nearly 100 undocumented people crammed into a house, according to the authorities.
In Texas oil country, a photographer captures one high school’s struggle to reopen during the pandemic — and witnesses the region’s resilience.
The authorities blamed storms and tornadoes for at least three deaths, and forecasters warned that more tornadoes were possible on Tuesday night.
Companies including HP, Microsoft and Unilever are calling for expanded voting access in the state after weeks of silence from national businesses on Republicans’ voting bills there.
The Republican Party trounced the Democrats at every level in Texas in November, only to see its politicians turn on one another over the pandemic and voter-fraud conspiracy theories.
Biden doesn't rile up the grassroots. Critical race theory does.
Funcionarios de ambos partidos expresaron dudas sobre las cifras del censo publicadas hace poco; los demócratas aseguran que hay un subregistro de la población hispana.
Two Republicans qualified for a runoff to fill a vacant House seat in northern Texas, foiling Democrats’ hopes of a breakthrough there.
Conservative Hispanic leaders, especially women, are ascendant in the Rio Grande Valley, where Republicans are trying to forge lasting bonds with voters who swung sharply to the right in 2020.
The front-runner was Susan Wright, who was endorsed by Donald J. Trump and is the widow of Representative Ron Wright, who died of Covid-19 in February.
See full results and maps from the Texas special election.
The front-runner in Saturday’s election is Susan Wright, who has been endorsed by Donald J. Trump and is the widow of Representative Ron Wright, who died of Covid-19 in February.
Republican lawmakers are marching ahead to overhaul voting systems in states where they control the government, frustrating Democrats and even some G.O.P. election officials. Next up: Texas.
Houston police officers found more than 90 people — some showing symptoms of Covid-19 — “all huddled together” on Friday in what they believe may be a case of human smuggling.
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Officials believe that Specialist Aaron Robinson bludgeoned Specialist Vanessa Guillen to death. He later killed himself.
The count reflects the slowest population growth since the 1930s. It also offers a glimpse of the shifting centers of population and power in the United States.
A mental health crisis has set in at Odessa High School and some students struggle to envision a world beyond the pandemic. But for one night, the marching band tried to forget about the coronavirus.
A mental health crisis sets in at Odessa High School and some students struggle to envision a world beyond the pandemic. But for one night, the marching band tries to forget about the coronavirus.
Working on the audio documentary “Odessa” gave one producer a painful look at the post-lockdown emotional struggles of teenagers.
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After working as a well-paid Republican operative, he gave up a lavish lifestyle to live in poverty as a self-proclaimed Jeremiah, calling out fraud in the name of God.
Ed Gonzalez would take over an agency that has not had a permanent leader since 2017.
Fossils from a Texas site suggest that the predatory felines not only snatched mammoths from their herds, but dragged the remains back to their cave.
El Times descubrió un patrón de negligencia y secretismo que contribuyó a alimentar los brotes tanto dentro como fuera de los centros de detención del ICE.
With immigration leveling off and a declining birthrate, the United States may be entering an era of substantially lower population growth, demographers said.
The charge was related to a “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” tape that had been rented from a video store in Norman, Okla. Prosecutors dismissed the case on Wednesday.
In Houston, election officials found creative ways to help a struggling and diverse work force vote in a pandemic. Record turnout resulted. Now the G.O.P. is targeting those very measures.
Gordon-Reed’s new book is a series of short, moving essays about her family’s history and about the end of legalized slavery in Texas.
Two people died in the crash, and officials said no one had been behind the wheel. Elon Musk, Tesla’s chief executive, said recovered data showed “Autopilot was not enabled” in the vehicle.
Border crossings are at their highest levels in 15 years.
Forty-five percent of the state’s voters said they would vote for the actor if he challenged Gov. Greg Abbott next year, the poll found.
Officers in Texas took a former Travis County deputy into custody a day after three people, including his ex-wife, were killed, the authorities said.
“No one was driving the vehicle” when the car crashed and burst into flames, killing two men, a constable said.
The Texas Rangers removed all capacity limits for an exhibition game on Monday, but a modest crowd of 12,911 showed up.
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The temperatures are back to normal, but daily life is still a struggle for Texans affected by last week’s storms.
All energy sources fell short, but natural gas power broke down the most.
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Maps showing where frigid temperatures led to power outages after the huge winter storm.
Maps showing where frigid temperatures led to power outages after the huge winter storm.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
The Rio Grande Valley shifted decisively toward President Trump, cancelling out votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr. in urban and suburban areas.
See full results and maps from the Texas election.
See full results and maps from the Texas election.
See full results and maps from the Texas election.
See full results and maps from the Texas election.
See full results and maps from the Texas election.
A hurricane watch was issued for parts of the Texas coast.
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Get the latest primary results from Alabama, Maine and Texas.
Get the latest primary results from Alabama, Maine and Texas.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
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