A new report found the TCEQ has faced delays due to dwindling staff and funding that will leave Texas with outsized impacts from Trump’s EPA cuts.

Trump has prompted a redistricting race as he tries to maintain Republican control of the House in the 2026 elections. Democrats have fewer options to counter, as the battle heads into next year.

WASHINGTON – By allowing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional map, the Supreme Court has kickstarted a nationwide partisan arms race over who holds a critical level of power in Washington during the final two years of President Donald Trump 's second term.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Texas to use a congressional map that will boost President Donald Trump’s effort to keep Republicans in control of Congress, blocking a lower court decision that found the new boundaries were likely unconstitutional because they were drawn based on race.

Donald Trump has scolded a Texas lawmaker's "lack of LOYALTY" for announcing he will seek election again as a Democrat only days after the president issued a “full and unconditional” pardon.

Live updates and the latest news as the Supreme Court seems poised to allow Trump to fire a member of the independent Federal Trade Commission without cause.

In Texas, Democratic candidates Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico have launched their Senate campaigns with contrasting strategies.

Cuellar, who along with his wife was charged in 2024 with accepting $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities, filed to run for reelection as a Democrat in his battleground South Texas district on Wednesday — the same day he received a pardon from Trump — quelling speculation that the moderate lawmaker intended to switch parties.