Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.| AP News
A Latino voting rights group is calling for a federal investigation after Texas authorities searched the homes of its volunteers last week and seized phones and computers.| AP News
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to beef up security at the southern border that began taking effect hours after he was inaugurated.| AP News
A federal judge in New York says transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should not be released.| AP News
The politics of immigration look different from communities on the Southwest border that are voting in hotly contested congressional races.| AP News
Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights.| AP News
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge.| AP News
Malaya Grace Hammond is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Hammond's family said she was swept away by floodwaters on Saturday in Travis County.| AP News
The flash floods that killed at least 100 people in central Texas last week is only the latest Guadalupe River disaster to claim lives.| AP News
Flash floods in Texas have killed at least 107 people over the Fourth of July weekend, with more than 160 still missing.| AP News
Texas parents are frantically posting photos of their daughters and pleas for information as at least 23 campers from an all-girls summer camp remain missing after floods tore through the state’s south-central region.| AP News
A swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of west-central Texas Friday and killed at least 13 was a flash flood.| AP News
Democrat Colin Allred is once again running for the U.S. Senate. The former congressman from Dallas announced his candidacy on Tuesday.| AP News
Gunnar Henderson drove in four runs in extra innings and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers 10-6 in 11 innings.| AP News
President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.| AP News
HOUSTON (AP) — Two days before the storm began, Houston’s chief elected official warned her constituents to prepare as they would for a major hurricane.| AP News
A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 36.| AP News
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration is responding to President Joe Biden's effort to restrict asylum at the U.S.| AP News
Donald Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration.| AP News
With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday night’s State of the Union speech, the killing of a Georgia nursing student was further cemented as a political rallying point in the 2024 race for president.| AP News