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Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Texas on Tuesday. The former mayor of the Dallas suburb of Irving won her third term in Congress. The hard-charging ...

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It's not your ordinary battle between family members but a battle between his widow Nora Canales and a woman who claims she's ...

Monarch butterflies are migrating through the Permian Basin, embarking on a 2,000-mile journey to Mexico as part of their ...

The first polls have been announced but bomb hoaxes and a technical glitch in ballot printers have slowed voting in other areas ...

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Former President Donald Trump has won the general election in Texas for the third time, along with Florida and Tennessee. As ...

Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz scratched out a victory over Democratic U.S. Colin Allred on Tuesday night.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) secured a third term in the upper chamber on Tuesday by knocking off Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas) in ...