On the first day of the special legislative session, a group of state representatives and community leaders rallied at the ...

With only 25 days left for lawmakers to take action, the goal of this trip is for community members to be able to testify about their experience.

On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott called Texas lawmakers back to the state capitol for a special session on, among other issues, flood relief and mid-decade redistricting. In ...

(The Center Square) – Only five days into the special session and 15 Texas House Democrats left the state to meet with the Democratic governors of California and Illinois looking for ways to oppose ...

Texas House Democrats say Abbott allowed President Donald Trump to take over Texas because he added redistricting to the special session in response to concerns raised by the Department of Justice.

While climate change continues to exacerbate extreme weather, poor governance is often at fault for unnecessary deaths following weather events. People die because of lack of warning and delayed ...

Nearly 10 years after North Carolina’s HB 2 caused nationwide boycotts, 19 states have enacted restrictions on what bathrooms ...

Christopher Scott, a professor in Pennsylvania State University’s ecosystem science and management department, explained how recent severe weather events are connected to climate change.

Early in his first term, Trump told his staff something revealing, that he likened the presidency to a TV program: “You have ...

Chinese authorities have come under criticism for withholding details about a car hitting children near a Beijing school in ...

Alfonso Saldaña entered political activism during the early years of the Obama administration, motivated by a sense of optimism for real change in healthcare reform, addressing economic inequality, ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip—Israeli troops for the first time Monday pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based, in what appeared to be the latest effort to carve up the ...