Greg Abbott

As secretary of state, Fort Worth attorney John Scott would oversee election administration in Texas.

Timothy Mellon is the Wyoming-based grandson of banking tycoon Andrew Mellon. He is responsible for nearly 98% of the donations to Texas’ border wall fund.

As dozens of legal battles play out, Texas parents have found themselves caught in confusion about whether their children have to mask up at school.

Despite having paid $25,000, the conservative group was told it would not air at the request of The University of Texas at Austin.

Texas officials call it a "historic surge." Thousands of new arrivals, largely from Haiti, are straining an already overstretched system, and more are on the way.

A federal judge Wednesday threw out an attempt by plaintiffs to block Texas' ban on mask mandates ahead of a trial next month.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have long threatened to sue school districts that defy Abbott’s ban on local mask mandates. On Friday, Paxton made good on that threat.

Abbott suggested victims of rape have "at least six weeks" to get an abortion if they choose under his state's new law. But the timeline is actually much shorter than that for most people.

As Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to punish any school district that defied Abbott’s ban on mask mandates, Republican legislators were largely indifferent on the matter.

On top of redistricting, Abbott wants lawmakers to take up bills on restrictions for transgender student athletes and the allocation of billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds.