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President Joe Biden is calling longtime U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas “a towering figure in our politics.”

Jackson Lee, who has represented Texas’ 18th Congressional District for nearly three decades, revealed her battle with pancreatic cancer in June.

The largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children has engaged in the “severe, pervasive” sexual abuse and harassment of children in its care, the Justice Department alleges.

A prominent aid group along the U.S.-Mexico border is asking a Texas judge to push back on a widening Republican-led investigation into nonprofits that help migrants.

A surrogacy escrow management company and its owner accused of misappropriating millions of dollars from Intended Parents are facing a lawsuit from at least 23 families and an FBI Investigation.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has formed a committee to ensure utility companies “respond more effectively to future storms.”

A West Texas school built in 1909 for Mexican and Mexican American students as part of “separate but equal” education segregation was designated Wednesday as a national park.

Issues around illegal immigration were the focus of the second night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. The Associated Press fact checks some of the claims made Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man shortly before he was to receive a lethal injection in a killing decades ago.

Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California.

A family in Amarillo saved a baby bird they found in their backyard while swimming by wrapping it in a warm tortilla.

A Texas man is set to be executed for the killing of an elderly woman decades ago in what prosecutors said was an attempt to steal money the woman had hidden in her Brownsville home.

A judge has cleared the way for the demolition of the small Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017.