Texas Democratic lawmakers sent a letter of congressional inquiry to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Monday, cautioning public colleges about the potential loss of federal funding if they adhere to Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s recent directive to disregard updated language in Title IX regulations. Title IX, a civil rights law established in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally …

Sunny Chaparala screamed when she saw the sidewalks in southern Dallas lined with homeless people. “It’s a shock,” said Chaparala, a Republican running for Texas’ 24th Congressional District, a cluster of northern suburbs including Irving, Southlake and Carrollton more than a dozen miles away from this stretch of poverty. Chaparala wanted to learn more about the area’s homelessness, something she said …

AUSTIN — Glenn Rogers couldn’t have been any clearer. “I am against the ban on taxpayer funded lobbying,” he told the crowd at a Granbury forum for candidates in House District 60 in January. “You heard that right.” But after conservative activists circulated videos of his statement and skewered him for his position, the Republican candidate had a change of …

A Dallas businessman wants to build the city’s first urban boarding campus for kids living in poverty. On Wednesday, he secured a $400,000 grant from the city for the effort. In an 11-3 vote, council members decided to approve the discretionary funds to start the “At Last” program in south Oak Cliff where 16 impoverished kids will get help with their homework …

It’s not your imagination. There’s no escape. Just about every campaign ad you see on TV for a presidential candidate is pitching billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Nationwide, he’s spent some $450 million, and is almost single-handedly responsible for the fact that combined spending on the 2020 presidential race could break the $1 billion mark by Super Tuesday next week. In Texas, …

GEORGETOWN, S.C. — An hour into an enthusiastic rally in this historic port city, former Vice President Joe Biden’s emcee, a local state representative, cut off the garrulous Democratic presidential contender with a gentle bit of razzing. Biden was like the proverbial preacher, state Rep. Carl Anderson said, who makes repeated promises to his congregation that the sermon will last …

East Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert cast one of just four no votes Wednesday as the U.S. House approved historic legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime. The vote was 410-4. Gohmert, a Tyler Republican, said afterward in a floor speech that he couldn’t support a “ridiculous” 10-year prison term for lynching as provided for in the Emmett Till Antilynching …

The number of eligible immigrant voters around the country has almost doubled since 2000. And in Texas, these naturalized citizens make up about 10% of all eligible voters across the state, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center. Around the country, about 23.2 million immigrants will be eligible to vote this year, and some 1.8 million of …

A Collin County gang member has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for shooting at police during a high-speed chase after a carjacking in 2018, the Collin County district attorney’s office said Tuesday. Marcus Johnson-McBryde(Collin County Sheriff’s Department) Marcus Johnson-McBryde, 23, of Allen pleaded guilty Feb. 14 to two counts of aggravated assault of a public servant and one …

Five students were taken into police custody after a fight broke out at a Fort Worth middle school Tuesday morning, school officials and police said. Officers were called at 9:15 a.m. about the disturbance at Rosemont Middle School. Fort Worth ISD spokesman Clint Bond said staff members and a police officer had broken up the fight among students. The school …

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Bernie Sanders is the front-runner in the Democratic race for president. His rivals finally acted like it. The Vermont senator’s foes came after him early and often Tuesday night at the Democratic debate in South Carolina, tagging him as a rogue, unrealistic radical in the final on-stage clash ahead of the state’s primary on Saturday and the …