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This post has local news on the coronavirus pandemic from Thursday, May 7. Read Friday's live updates here. If you'd like to go through a roundup of…

As election results come in across the country, NPR reporters will be updating this breaking news blog in real time.The NPR Politics team, along with…

Update: The city has named three finalists in its design contest reimagining the Seaholm Intake Structures. The three finalists are:“Link,” Gumbully“The…

Biden has signed 15 executive actions on priorities including COVID-19, climate change, racial justice — and rolling back Trump rules.

Thousands gathered inside of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for the NRA convention while swaths of others convened outside in protest, advocating for gun control legislation.

By the end of the year, a few Texas school districts may have access to millions in funding that Gov. Rick Perry had passed on two years ago because of…

If the New Hampshire primary goes as expected, Mitt Romney should emerge the winner. How big he wins will matter because polls have shown him with a commanding lead. But New Hampshire could provide a surprise in a GOP presidential race that has already had more than a few.

The Senate Judiciary Committee released more than 2,500 pages of documents on Wednesday related to its investigation about a meeting in 2016 between top…

A new study finds that the gap is actually largest in America's wealthiest neighborhoods, challenging widely-held beliefs about the relative impacts of class and race on life outcomes.

Paxton’s win was unsurprising after the state’s top court sided with his deputy in a similar lawsuit last month.