AT&T is one of the top corporations powering and profiting from ICE’s violent deportation campaign. We need to make it clear to AT&T, and every other corporation profiting from the suffering of our i...

A rugged Texas ranch is becoming the state’s newest park

The former Harris County attorney defeated Amanda Edwards in Texas’ 18th Congressional District. The two will face off again in the March 3 primary for a redrawn version of the district.

With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.

Former Harris County Attorney Democrat Christian Menefee will win the special election runoff in Texas’ 18th Congressional District, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, ending a long v...

Democrats notched another victory Saturday in special elections during President Donald Trump’s second term, flipping a seat in the Texas Senate that Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

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Texas already redrew its congressional maps in 2021, but now Donald Trump and national Republicans are demanding a second redraw, not because of new Census data, but to protect their grip on power as ...

California Sen. Alex Padilla said Americans have a right to protest policies they disagree with in describing his tussle with federal law enforcement

Fisher Sand & Gravel was awarded a $309 million contract to build nearly 27 miles of border wall across the San Rafael Valley.

Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.

Republicans have been silent after Donald Trump responded to a question about whether he needs to uphold the Constitution by saying, "I don't know."

A trawl of job views and application data suggests jobseekers are looking abroad as the Trump administration’s cuts to science take hold.

STAT is tracking, day by day, what's happened in the words of science and health during the first months of the Trump administration.

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggests that laying off thousands of federal workers would tame a massive budget. But nearly all of the agency’s money goes to hospitals, doctors and nursing ho...

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The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

After completing my post-doctoral training at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and a brief period on the faculty there, I joined the Department o…

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government have caused a record-breaking surge in layoffs.

A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.

The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state's worst in nearly 30 years.

Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

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Formerly known as the Rosalind Dress Celebrate the indomitable spirit of inspiring women in science with this captivating design that pays homage to trailblazers. Their images are surrounded by symbol...