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AUSTIN, Texas — Over the weekend, Texas’ two senators traded barbs over the last year’s government shutdown in a pair of speeches delivered at The Texas Tribune Festival, a conference at the University of Texas at Austin organized by the

AUSTIN, Texas — At an event today at the University of Texas Austin campus, Texas Governor Rick Perry reaffirmed his support of allowing illegal immigrant students to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities, while U.S. citizens from other

AUSTIN, Texas — More than 700 infants at an El Paso hospital were exposed to tuberculosis (TB) by an employee of the hospital who was infected with the disease, reports CBS’ Dallas-Fort Worth affiliate. About 40 other employees of the

AUSTIN, Texas — A new coalition of supporters of criminal justice reform announced an ambitious legislative agenda at a Capitol press conference on Wednesday. The Texas Smart-On-Crime Coalition‘s (TSCC) executive committee includes the Texas Association for Business (TAB), the Texas Public

AUSTIN, Texas– An Austin mother found her family under investigation by Child Protective Services (CPS, a division of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, or TDFPS) earlier this month after a neighbor witnessed her son playing outside unsupervised

AUSTIN, Texas — Democratic nominee for Governor Wendy Davis has come a long way since the heights of her pink-sneakered glory days back in June 2013, when she captured the national attention of abortion advocates for her eleven hour filibuster

AUSTIN, Texas — The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Samantha Renee Headcarrier, 24, of Browning, Montana, has been sentenced to ten years in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release, and a special assessment of $100, after pleading guilty to Assault

AUSTIN, Texas — The 84th Session of the Texas Legislature is scheduled to begin on January 13, 2015, and one of the expected hot topics is school choice. As part of our ongoing #84LegePreview series, Breitbart Texas took a look at a program popular

AUSTIN, Texas —  Devender Singh, a 62 year old Indian national who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pled guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact in a Newark, New Jersey federal court, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

AUSTIN, Texas — A twenty-four year old Mexican national named Heriberto Montoya-Merino was deported back to Mexico earlier this month  by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Montoya-Merino was wanted in connection with a murder

AUSTIN, Texas — On Wednesday evening at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Willie Trottie, 45, was executed by lethal injection after he unsuccessfully tried to petition the United States Supreme Court in an appeal that challenged the drugs used

AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday, Wayne Hamilton, the campaign manager for Republican gubernatorial nominee, Greg Abbott, filed a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) accusing State Senator Wendy Davis, Abbott’s Democratic opponent, of violating Texas election law for activities related

AUSTIN, Texas — Federal authorities have reported that the final two human smugglers convicted in connection with a stash house in southeast Houston where illegal immigrants were being housed have been sentenced to federal prison. The two men, Jose Aviles-Villa,

AUSTIN, Texas — Suriname, a tiny country on the northeast Atlantic coast of South America, just north of Brazil, has gained notoriety in global anti-terrorism circles in recent years, as new evidence continues to be revealed about the depths of

AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) endorsed Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) for re-election. The NRA-PVF, the political wing of the national gun rights organization, was enthusiastic in their support for Cornyn, noting that

AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, Wayne Hamilton, the campaign manager for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s campaign for Governor, sent a formal request to the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC) for an advisory opinion regarding the book tour and promotional activities

AUSTIN, Texas  — On Saturday, Texas Governor Rick Perry embarked on an economic development trip to Asia. The trip will last a week and includes visits to Japan and China. The Governor’s schedule includes a speech  to the American Chamber

AUSTIN, Texas — After months of threatening to enact immigration reform on his own via executive order, President Barack Obama announced he had changed his mind on the issue in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”

AUSTIN, Texas – As Texas looks forward to the 84th Legislative Session, scheduled to begin on January 13, 2015, part of the preparations include “interim charges” released by the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House to study topics that

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation organized a panel discussion at the Texas Capitol to address the crisis along the Texas border. The panel was the second of a two-part series, with a similar event last week focusing

AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday at the Texas Capitol, a group of grassroots tea party activists gathered for a press conference to share the “Texas Border Crisis Action Plan” they had created after years of frustration with a government that they

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Defending the American Dream Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity last Friday in Dallas, Bob Hall, the Republican nominee for Texas State Senate District 2, gave an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas to share the

AUSTIN, Texas — In a ruling issued Tuesday evening, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans granted the motion for stay pending appeal filed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in the litigation challenging

AUSTIN, Texas — Americans were horrified today when the terrorist group ISIS released a video that purports to show a militant beheading the American journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been held hostage since being captured in Syria in August 2013.

AUSTIN, Texas — George P. Bush, the Republican nominee for Texas Land Commissioner, gave an interview recently to Neena Satija of the Texas Tribune, in an article that also ran in the New York Times as part of their partnership

DALLAS, Texas — Friday, Judge Lee Yeakel of the  United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, ruled that parts of Texas’ abortion law, HB 2, were unconstitutional. The law was passed in 2013 after two

DALLAS, Texas — Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently spoke at the Defending the American Dream  Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity. The eighth annual Summit was the largest in the event’s history, with over three thousand attendees, and Cruz’s popularity

DALLAS, Texas — Today at Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a speech that was widely viewed by the audience as a prelude to his presumed 2016 presidential campaign. AFP President Tim Phillips

AUSTIN, Texas — At a panel discussion organized by the Texas Public Policy Foundation at the Texas Capitol Wednesday, National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Vice President Shawn Moran shared his thoughts about the current challenges facing border patrol agents —

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation organized a panel discussion at the Texas Capitol to address the crisis along the Texas border. The speakers painted a picture far different from how the situation is portrayed by most of

In a speech Thursday at the Heritage Foundation, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered remarks about the border crisis. During a question and answer session, Perry was asked whether he believed there was a serious threat that the unsecured border could allow the

AUSTIN, Texas — This morning, a conference call was organized with the legal team representing Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the indictments against him for his veto of the funding for the Public Integrity Unit (the PIU) after Travis County

AUSTIN, Texas — Yesterday on his Facebook page, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), posted an announcement that he was calling for an independent audit of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office “in light of recent allegations that District Attorney

AUSTIN, Texas — Yesterday, several members of the Travis County grand jury that indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry last Friday had come forward to criticize Perry’s comments made in his own defense against the indictment.   Despite the fact that the

AUSTIN, Texas –Today, in a scene that more closely resembled a campaign rally than a criminal proceeding, Governor Rick Perry arrived at the Blackwell Thurman Criminal Justice Center in downtown Austin for fingerprinting and booking photos. Perry was indicted last

AUSTIN, Texas — RickPAC, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s political action committee, struck a vicious blow at his political opponents today with a new video titled, “Setting the Record Straight“: Perhaps most damaging is how the video begins: with a clip from