Texas Republican: Process on coronavirus relief bill was disgrace to taxpayers

Some parts of Texas experienced a rare heavy snowfall over the weekend as a winter storm swept through the region. Snow falling across the region forced some school and government office closures and fostered some play time for adults and children cooped up in the pandemic.

The storm that brought Texas snow this weekend is now moving into the Mississippi Valley. Winter storm warnings are still up for parts of East Texas through parts of Louisiana and Mississippi with temperatures 20-25 degrees below average in some cities. "Bring your pets inside!" tweeted the National Weather Service Brownsville on Sunday night.

The pressure was on when directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine set about making Boys State, their film documenting an annual exercise in Texas that gives high school boys the chance to practice democracy in action.

With just over a week remaining in his term, President Trump is expected to celebrate progress on one of his featured campaign promises: a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to a senior administration official, Trump will be in Alamo, Texas on Tuesday after the White House marked roughly 450 miles of the barrier being completed.

A convicted man from Texas has been sentenced to prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain free Spirit Airlines flights for himself and others, as well as making fake employee identification badges in order to get the flights, prosecutors said. The defendant, identified as Hubbard Bell, 32, from Houston, had previously worked for Mesa Airlines, which gives its employees free tickets for Spirit Airlines flights as a perk.

Goosehead Insurance associate general counsel, Paul Davis, was terminated after a live-streamed video shared to social media showed the Texas lawyer's participation in Wednesday’s breach of the U.S. Capitol.

Two high-profile Texas Democrats want the Lone Star State’s Republican Sen.Ted Cruz to step down after his objection to the 2020 presidential election results on the Senate floor Wednesday night and have blamed him for the chaos on Capitol Hill. "Someone on the Senate floor should ask for @SenTedCruz’s resignation tonight," tweeted Rep.

A 21-year-old Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the theft of a rare $10,000 bulldog puppy. Royshana King was taken into police custody and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon last week, according to county officials.

Rep. Pat Fallon, a former Notre Dame football player with a big personality, says the future of the Republican Party will be more accessible, likable and inspirational.  The Texas Republican who openly considered primary-challenging Sen.

The family of a 19-year-old soldier found dead in Fort Bliss, Texas last week said she had been sexually assaulted by another soldier a year before her death and was "ready to fight" for justice in her case.

Just days into 2021, the state of Texas is already facing a grim new record.  On Sunday, the state set a new coronavirus hospitalization record, with some 12,563 people in Texas currently hospitalized with COVID-19.The new record represents more than a 240-person increase from the day prior, per official estimates.  "The numbers are going up. Everything is trending in the wrong direction — new cases, hospitalizations and the positivity rate," said Dr.

A Texas boy, 15, was charged with murder Sunday after surveillance video showed him beating his mother to death, police say. The boy's father called police to the family's home in McKinney, Texas, just before 1 a.m.

The Texas Supreme Court blocked local orders establishing an overnight curfew for restaurants to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports. The court issued the order Friday, conditionally granting state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petition to block enforcement of orders in Austin and surrounding Travis County.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.

A Texas father of two shot and killed one of three intruders who entered his home Sunday and held his family at gunpoint, according to local reports. The following day, the home on 18th street in Port Arthur was also the apparent target of a shooting around 6 p.m., and a a few hours later a fire was reported there around midnight, Port Arthur News said.

Variety reported that he would — for the first time in the long history of either “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” — miss several episodes of “The Bachelorette” and be replaced temporarily by Season 12 contestant JoJo Fletcher.He explained to viewers that he was just taking a break to take his son Joshua to college, and it would take some time to return to set because COVID procedures — which have allowed the spit-swapping show to continue shooting despite the pandemic — required him to

and The Bachelorette be without Chris Harrison? This dude has been lurking on set of ABC's long-running reality franchise for years, but his future as host appears to be uncertain amid reports that he's packing his bags and moving to Texas. was the first to report this news, saying that Chris is building a home in Austin's trendy Barton Creek area.

Chris Harrison taking his final bow in Bachelor Nation? Some fans think so.Rumors swirled around the longtime reality TV host, 49, on Tuesday, December 29, after The New York Post’s Page Six reported that he’s moving to Austin, Texas.