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Texas can use its newly-drawn congressional map in next year’s elections, the Supreme Court ruled, reversing a lower court ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The drought situation in Central Texas has taken a worrying turn this week, with the Austin metro area officially falling under Extreme Drought (D3) conditions. The latest U.S. Drought ...

On Wednesday, the legal fight over the newly approved congressional maps in Texas will shift from the Capitol to a federal courtroom in El Paso. That's when federal judges will consider a lawsuit by a ...

Elon Musk’s Lone Star empire — sprawling, ambitious and ever-changing — is on full display in Central Texas, where Cybertrucks glisten outside a vast Austin factory, a sleek SpaceX plant stands stark ...

Texas officials had asked the Supreme Court to revive the map, which was designed to help Trump's party keep control of Congress in midterm elections.

A federal court has barred Texas from using its redrawn congressional map, dealing a blow to Republicans who hoped the map would help the party maintain control in next year’s midterm elections. Texas ...