Greg Abbott

Gov. Abbott’s reelection campaign saw a contribution from Walmart after he signed two bills that restricted abortion and voting access.

Texas is poised to become the latest and most populous state to tighten restrictions on transgender athletes in public high school sports.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.

A science advocacy group is launching a $10 million campaign aimed at pushing GOP governors to reject conspiracy theories in education policy.

“It’s appalling that we’re talking about debating whether or not to protect children,” said Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is issuing an executive order barring any entity in the state from requiring its workers to get a coronavirus vaccine. And while the federal government is not mandating vaccines at work, either way, businesses will have to follow the OSHA rules about keeping workers safe from infection. And some businesses will choose to do so with...

With the governor of Texas leading the charge, conservative Republicans in several states are moving to block or undercut President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers before the regulations are even issued.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Monday to prohibit any entity, including private business, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers and called on state lawmakers to pass a similar ban into law.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spoke following the shooting at Timberview High School in Arlington, Texas, this morning.

A Texas agency on Monday approved a request that George Floyd be granted a posthumous pardon for a 2004 drug arrest made by a now-indicted ex-Houston police officer whose case history is under scrutiny following a deadly drug raid.

More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment at a Texas border town, U.S. officials said Monday as they defended a strong response that included immediately deporting migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town.

Greg Abbott and Sylvester Turner both spoke Monday about the dangers posed by Tropical Storm Nicholas as it nears Texas.

Abortion clinics in neighboring Oklahoma and nearby Kansas say they’re still seeing a high volume of patients from Texas as a new state law there banning most abortions remains in effect.

The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted “in open defiance of the Constitution.”

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday defended a new state law banning most abortions that also does not provide exceptions for cases of rape or incest, saying it does not force victims to give birth even though it prohibits abortions before some women know they’re pregnant.

The sweeping changes to Texas’ election code that GOP Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Tuesday make it harder — sometimes even legally riskier — to cast a ballot in the state, which already has some of the nation’s most restrictive voting laws, the Associated Press reports.

Texas’ new law allowing most people to carry handguns in public without a permit or training came in part from the belief by many Texans that the best way to prevent crime and stop an armed bad guy is to make sure an armed good guy is nearby.

The decision “is an unprecedented assault on a woman’s constitutional rights under Roe v. Wade,” Biden said in a searing statement.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday the state will get 2,500 more medical personnel from across the country to help battle this summer’s Covid surge.