A growing list of federal U.S. lawmakers is urging Mexico to comply with the terms of a 1944 water treaty they say its southern neighbor is violating.... Read more»
As Texas lawmakers say farmers in the Rio Grande Valley are hurting because Mexico is not honoring a treaty on surface water delivery, experts caution that greater attention should be paid to water deep below the surface.... Read more»
Police would have new authority to take firearms away from Texans who are in a mental crisis under a bill the House approved last Tuesday that is now headed to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk.... Read more»
The cause of a fertilizer plant explosion here that killed 15 people on April 17 has been ruled “undetermined,” officials announced at a press conference in the town’s high school parking lot on Thursday.... Read more»
For the past year and a half, stealing a penny in Texas has been a felony under state law. Lawmakers didn’t set out to target the smallest of small-time thieves, though. It happened inadvertently in 2011 when they passed a bill aimed at curbing the growing problem of metal theft.... Read more»
Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons considers President Barack Obama to be “the most dangerous man in America,” and in a bid to unseat him, fueled conservative political groups with tens of millions of dollars.... Read more»
The Republican response to President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce gun violence has been peppered with misleading claims.... Read more»
In the recent debate about stricter gun control, some officials on both sides of the Rio Grande saw a sliver of hope — that such laws might curb the flow of illegal weapons over the United States’ southern border.... Read more»
Responding to petitions from Texas and seven other states calling for the right to secede, the White House called for healthy debate, but to not let “that debate tear us apart.”... Read more»
While the federal government and other states ponder more rigorous gun control laws following the shootings at a Connecticut elementary school, some legislators in Texas have taken the opposite approach. They have emphasized the need to make firearms more available, and their discussions have included increasing access for teachers and other school personnel.... Read more»
The slew of pre-filed immigration-enforcement bills that piled up in the Texas House clerk’s office ahead of the 2010 legislative session seems like an anomaly today.... Read more»
An online petition asking the U.S. government for permission for Texas to withdraw from the country and create a “new government” has reached 25,000 signatures. The Obama administration, according to terms officially laid out by the White House, is now required to respond to the petition “in a timely fashion.”... Read more»
Gaffes are all the rage on the presidential campaign trail these days. Invariably we are told these verbal boo-boos are bad enough to bring a presidential campaign to its knees, that somehow the blunder in question has set a new low, a dubious milestone. Two words: Rick Perry.... Read more»
Lawmakers will address the challenges of combating human trafficking in Texas — a state known as a national center for the difficult-to-measure crime — at a joint interim hearing in Houston on Tuesday. Texas has created harsher penalties for the crime, but advocates say it’s hard to know whether they are working.... Read more»
Texas Department of Public Safety rules mandate that applicants for driver’s licenses or ID cards prove they are in the country legally. Some immigration lawyers and legal scholars say that applicants approved for deferred action qualify for such licenses.... Read more»
Akin clings to Senate nomination, as his party scrambles to limit damage.... Read more»
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