State Republican lawmakers will try to grow the GOP's control of Texas' seats in Congress through rare mid-decade ...

Adaptive Huffman coding (AHC) is an entropy encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression. This paper explores the effectiveness of Adaptive Huffman coding in achieving efficient data ...

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Aaron Reitz said he is running for attorney general to increase cooperation between Texas and the Trump administration.

The 2026 state GOP primary promises to reshuffle Texas Republican politics, as new faces emerge and some veterans seek ...

Houston, entered the AG’s race last week, ensuring there will be a runoff in the Republican primary, set for March 2026.

Texas Legislative Session, Senate Bill 5 approving the founding of the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas ...

A bill that would've added two new district courts was vetoed by the governor, and legislators are trying to add one of the ...

“House Bill No. 3120 is a well-intentioned effort to make child detention facilities, and the communities around them, safer, ...

Sen. Joan Huffman, R-Houston, on the Senate floor during the second day of the 89th regular session at the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (Juan Figueroa / Staff ...

When the budget was approved by the Legislature in May, state Sen. Joan Huffman, the Senate’s lead budget writer, touted the approach to budgeting in recent years. “The Texas economy is the envy of ...