Greg Abbott

The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.

The constitutional right to abortion enshrined in the Roe v. Wade decision is under attack in several cases considered by the Supreme Court this term.

The Department of Justice is suing Texas over new redistricting maps approved by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this fall, saying the plans discriminate against voters in the state’s booming Latino and Black populations.

Actor Matthew McConaughey will not run for Texas governor, he said Sunday in a video posted on social media.

Former congressman Beto O’Rourke is making his Texas gubernatorial run official.

The DOJ says they’re suing Texas and the Texas Secretary of State over SB1, alleging it violates the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.

Some of the justices who had previously rejected a bid to block the Texas law signaled they were concerned about the way it was written.

The Supreme Court is not immediately blocking the Texas law that bans most abortions but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.

Gov. Abbott’s reelection campaign saw a contribution from Walmart after he signed two bills that restricted abortion and voting access.

Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high school sports.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

A science advocacy group is launching a $10 million campaign aimed at pushing GOP governors to reject conspiracy theories in education policy.

“It’s appalling that we’re talking about debating whether or not to protect children,” said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is issuing an executive order barring any entity in the state from requiring its workers to get a coronavirus vaccine. And while the federal government is not mandating vaccines at work, either way, businesses will have to follow the OSHA rules about keeping workers safe from infection. And some businesses will choose to do so with...

With the governor of Texas leading the charge, conservative Republicans in several states are moving to block or undercut President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers before the regulations are even issued.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke following the shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas, this morning.

A Texas agency on Monday approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.

More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at a Texas border town, U.S. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately deporting migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town.

Greg Abbott and Sylvester Turner both spoke Monday about the dangers posed by Tropical Storm Nicholas as it nears Texas.