Texas Governor Abbott threatens legal action against Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a vote on GOP-backed ...

The GOP-dominated Texas House is set to vote Monday on a new congressional district map that would flip five U.S.

To conduct official business, at least 100 members of the 150-member Texas House must be present. Democrats hold 62 of the ...

The July 4 flash flood killed 137 in the Texas Hill Country, with 108 reported dead in Kerr County, including 37 children.

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At 2:44 p.m. Tuesday, every cellphone within reach of Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency blared with a warning sound ...

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia on July 29 triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific Ocean, ...

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A very high fire risk (risk category 4) is forecast today, Saturday (02/08), in Attica, Evia, as well as in Heraklion and ...

The court partly blamed “unscientific construction” for recent natural disasters, and said that tourism pressure fuelled by “human greed and apathy” is undermining the state’s ecological fabric ...

The Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting heard testimony Friday on a proposed map that would redraw 37 ...

Texas House Democrats said they were traveling to Illinois Aug. 3 in an attempt to block a planned vote on a newly-proposed ...