Texas

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis listens during an education roundtable meeting in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Wendy Davis brings in $12 million in bid for Texas governor

Steve Doty · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Ted Cruz thunders into a new year, while fellow Republicans seek softer tone

Charlie Spiering · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

Texas State Sen.ÃÂ WendyÃÂ DavisÃÂ speaks at an education roundtable meeting in Arlington, Texas, last week. (AP/LM Otero)

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Wendy Davis numbers expected to confirm: Abortion is a moneymaker for politicians

Timothy P. Carney · January 13, 2014 5:00 am

Ted Cruz calls Obama’s promise a ‘stuff-burger’

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Ted Cruz calls Obama’s promise a ‘stuff-burger’

Charlie Spiering · January 11, 2014 5:00 am

This Dec. 6, 2012 aerial photo shows a natural gas well, top center, drilled by Range Resources, but now operated by another company, near homes in rural Parker County near Granbury, Texas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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Did the EPA’s inspector general cover up the agency’s wrongdoing?

Ashe Schow · January 10, 2014 5:00 am

Fort Worth officer fired in sex assault case

Fort Worth officer fired in sex assault case

Washington Examiner · January 8, 2014 5:00 am

Alyssa Travino, center, of Edinburg, Texas, wears a birth control bill box costume during a Planned Parenthood rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol on March 7, 2013, in Austin, Texas. A federal appeals court was set to review a Texas law that led to the closing of many abortion clinics in the state, a case that ultimately appears to be bound for the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Federal appeals court to review Texas abortion law

Washington Examiner · January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to local residents during a fundraising picnic for the Iowa Republican Party on July 19 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Ted Cruz celebrates his one-year anniversary as a senator

Charlie Spiering · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this June 11, 2007 file photo, Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons is photographed in his North Dallas office. The deaths this year of three major Texas Republican donors, including a billionaire who died over the weekend, could signal a generational change for party kingmakers in the nationÃ?s largest GOP stronghold. Harold SimmonsÃ? death Saturday came after Republicans lost home builder Bob Perry in April and businessman Leo Linbeck Jr. in June. For decades, all three helped bankroll political campaigns both in Texas and nationwide. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox)

Texas Republicans lose 3 major donors in 2013

Associated Press · December 31, 2013 5:00 am

"Suspected crimes of this nature will simply not be tolerated," said U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas. (AP File/The Houston Chronicle, Julio Cortez)

Justice Department charges Texas man with hate crime over ‘knockout game’

Sean Lengell · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

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Fracktivists weep: Fracking saves water and prevents droughts, says study

Ashe Schow · December 26, 2013 5:00 am

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Celebrate the year of Ted Cruz with 74 of his best quotes of 2013

Charlie Spiering · December 23, 2013 5:00 am