The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided an additional payment of $9 million in border security funds. The payment is in addition to a previous $4 million grant awarded to the state earlier this year.
Chick-fil-A has been banned from operating as a food vendor in the Buffalo Niagara International Airport after a Democrat New York assemblyman tweeted the restaurant supports “anti-LGBTQ organizations.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Thursday he plans to investigate whether the San Antonio City Council violated the First Amendment when it banned Chick-fil-A from participating as a vendor at the city’s airport because of the restaurant’s support for Christian values:
The Texas House passed legislation on Wednesday that would allow children to run temporary lemonade stands without having to obtain a permit.
Police are lining up their vehicles near Eagle Pass, Texas, to help Border Patrol agents stop the illegal crossing of caravan migrants who arrived in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras last week. Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed an additional Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers to the region to assist in securing the border section that has no physical barriers to prevent illegal crossings.
Two of the three suspects in the MS-13 gang-related assault of a Long Island teenager exploited the unaccompanied minor loophole after crossing the border illegally in South Texas, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told Breitbart News. The two unaccompanied minors were transported to the New York area where they later allegedly carried out a vicious attack on a group of Huntington High School teens.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio, the municipal police chief, and other officials for alleged violations of the sanctuary city law commonly known as “SB4.” The lawsuit stems from a December 2017 incident where the San Antonio police chief released a group of illegal immigrants found in the back of a tractor-trailer before proper officials could screen them.
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released undercover video Tuesday of a Texas poll worker admitting that “tons” of non-citizens are being allowed to vote.
A Texas Republican will represent the people of the 19th State Senate District for the first time in nearly 140 years. The seat became vacant following the conviction in federal court of Democrat Carlos Uresti earlier this year.
The Texas State Board of Education will conduct public hearings this week to take up consideration of a proposal to strip the words “all the heroic defenders who gave their lives there” from Texas history textbooks. The proposal is drawing
Immigration officials filed detainers on four MS-13 members charged with hacking a Houston police informant to death with a machete. The alleged murder occurred in June.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are smoking their Democrat opponents, a new poll conducted by Gravis Marketing and provided to Breitbart News exclusively ahead of its public release shows.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an emergency special election to replace San Antonio Democrat State Senator Carlos Uresti, who resigned this week following 11 federal convictions for fraud and money laundering.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott unveiled a comprehensive new plan to enhance school safety during a Dallas-held news conference on Wednesday. His recommendations come nearly two weeks after an active shooter killed eight students and two teachers plus injured many others at Santa Fe High School.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted Saturday there is a “real” Second Amendment and an “imaginary” one and he believes the real one is “not absolute.”
The 17-year-old suspect in the killing of ten people at Santa Fe high school in Texas has confessed, authorities say, but his motivation for the attack remains unclear.
During a press conference on Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) said that the weapons used in the Sante Fe shooting were not legally possessed by the shooter and current information is that the weapons were legally owned by the shooter’s
A Texas high school teacher, who previously admitted to having sex and smoking marijuana with a former underage male student, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of improper conduct as part of a plea agreement.
Chief Executive Magazine again has named Texas the best U.S. state for business, marking the 14th year in a row the Lone Star State topped this list.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott asked former U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold (R-TX) to pay for the cost of the special election forced by his resignation. Farenthold announced his exit following a revelation that he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
A new Quinnipiac Poll released on Wednesday says a general election matchup in November that gives Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 47 percent of the vote and Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) 44 percent of the vote is “too close to call” because the results fall within the survey’s 3.6 percent margin of error.
Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector welcomed advance planning teams of the Texas National Guard as part of Operation Guardian Support.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott told members of the state’s National Guard that their presence will strengthen border security and make a meaningful difference. The governor ordered 1,400 Texas National Guardsmen to the border in response to President Donald Trumps call for additional security measures.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) said some of his state’s National Guard troops “will be armed” on the U.S.-Mexico Border. A reported 250 soldiers are being deployed.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said there was a “mathematical need” for President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Abbott said, “I have got to tell you, the
The governor of Oregon announced Wednesday that she would refuse any attempt from President Trump to send National Guard troops to protect the Mexican border after the president announced his intention to beef up border patrol operations.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on behalf of the State of Texas and upheld most of the new anti-sanctuary city law that went into effect September 1, 2017. The three-judge panel unanimously overturned most of the lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocked some provisions of the law.
Another Democratic candidate for district attorney backed by a Georg Soros-funded political action committee won in Texas over the Democrat incumbent. The Texas Justice & Safety PAC reportedly donated almost a million dollars to Bexar County District Attorney candidate Joe Gonzales.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) received more votes in the 2018 Republican Primary election than the entire turnout of voters in the Democratic Primary. The results shed a new perspective on the media-hyped “blue wave” stories from the weeks leading up to election day.
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz will face off against Representative Beto O’Rourke in the November General Election. However, Governor Greg Abbott will have to wait for the May runoff election to learn who his opponent will be. Senator Cruz easily handled
Texas Governor Greg Abbott called upon the State’s higher education officials to conduct a review of safety protocols in place at community colleges and universities.
President Donald Trump encouraged Republicans in Texas to vote in the state’s March 6 primary after Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned that the Democrats’ early vote total “should shock every conservative to the core.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state education officials to take immediate steps to ensure the safety of K-12 students in light of last week’s deadly shooting at a Florida high school.
Sheriff’s deputies in Travis County, Texas, will not receive life-saving body armor because Sheriff Sally Hernandez has not applied for a grant that requires certifying compliance with ICE detainer requests.
The White House on Monday announced President Donald Trump’s eleventh wave of nominees for federal judgeships, comprised of nine picks for lifetime appointments, reflecting both conservative stalwarts and careful negotiations.
Governor Greg Abbott (R) unveiled a policy initiative Tuesday that proposes Texas create a “do-not-hire” registry for educators and other school employees “convicted of or placed on deferred adjudication for improper relationships with students.”
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took aim at transnational criminal organizations during a speech at the University of Texas in Austin. He called these criminal organizations that include drug cartels and the hyperviolent MS-13 gang the “most immediate threat to our hemisphere.”
Texas law enforcement officers placed more than 243,000 criminal aliens in jails across the state since 2011. Those criminal aliens were accused of nearly 650,000 state or local criminal offenses.
Governor Greg Abbott requested a “full and thorough investigation” Tuesday into allegations that women athletes endured sexual abuse at the famed Karolyi Ranch, the Texas-based former national training center for USA Gymnastics.
Texas is working to improve its revolving door psychiatric care system thanks to decades-long efforts of those with intimate knowledge of the problems.
