Texas state tax has pros and cons. The statewide sales tax rate of 6.25% is a bit high, and localities can add 2%. Property taxes in Texas are also on the high end but were recently lowered for ...

Disinformation spikes during major U.S. elections. Experts urge verifying sources, fact-checking and careful content sharing. Voters wait in line at the Lakewood Branch Library in Dallas on Feb ...

States across the country are paving the way for electric vehicles. This green topic is also harshly divided along red and blue lines—which is to say, it’s heavily politicized. In North ...

Texas hospital patients will be asked if they’re in the U.S. legally starting Friday. The new policy stems from an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and it escalates the state’s clash with ...

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At the end of every event on Ted Cruz’s 53-stop campaign swing through Texas, the state ...

Texas is due to execute a man for murdering his two-year-old daughter, despite doubts about his guilt. Robert Roberson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Thursday after Texas’s Board ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The most competitive races in Texas this year are in its southern region near the U.S.-Mexico border. For decades, the region’s predominately working class and Latino ...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A Democratic congressman from Dallas seeks to topple U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas’ Senate race and break the party’s 30-year drought in Lone Star politics.

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ...