The change would give states greater power on deciding how much notice and public input residents receive before such permits are approved or denied.

Abortion isn’t polling as high as other issues that matter to women voters, and Democrats have also retreated on the topic.

Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is barring horses, pigs, cattle and other animals from Texas due to concerns over New World screwworm, a parasitic fly.

Despite efforts to boost domestic energy production, Mexico will continue to depend on Texas for natural gas, experts said, undermining its stated goals of energy independence.

"They control the scene, the deceased, the van, the witnesses. So yes, they control the investigation," Mayor John Whitmire said.

An increase in ICE agents arresting people on the streets may lead to more violence, such as the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will suspend the use of most vehicle stops in the wake of deadly shootings of immigrants in vehicles in both Texas and Maine in the past week, according to media ...

As of February, 21% of Texans who enrolled in a plan through the federal marketplace did not pay their first premium.

The other men in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said agents fired into the vehicle unprovoked, according to a lawyer for two of the men.

District Attorney Sean Teare said he is in contact with prosecutors in Minnesota who are investigating the January shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge to halt the restrictions as discriminatory, improperly vague and a violation of free speech.