Texas Water Development Board Chair L'Oreal Stepney was brought to tears at a Texas House hearing after accusations of ...

The topic was a budget request from a state agency. The exchange grew emotional when a lawmaker pressed for answers about a ...

Texas lawmakers are banding across the aisle after Texas Rep. Brian Harrison's targeted questioning made an expert testifier ...

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A coalition of groups fighting for gun reforms rallied at the Capitol Thursday as a state Senator filed multiple bills to raise the age requirements to buy a firearm, require universal background ...

L'Oreal Stepney was brought to tears Thursday during a tense exchange with Rep. Brian Harrison (R, Midlothian) over DEI considerations in the board’s hiring practices.

Texas official confronted over DEI hiring practices, leading to a wider debate on race and respect in state politics.

A usually mundane House Appropriations Committee hearing became tense as a Republican lawmaker probed members of the Texas ...

Several of Texas’ top Republicans are defending Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick to head the state’s water agency following pointed ...

L'Oreal Stepney was brought to tears Thursday during a tense exchange with Rep. Brian Harrison (R, Midlothian) over DEI ...

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities ...

Lucknow: The three-day youth festival, organised by Dastak, a socio-cultural organisation, with the support of UP tourism, UP ...