Parents of young girls who died in last month's flooding in the Texas Hill Country were in Austin on Wednesday to testify about proposed flood safety legislation for camps and campgrounds.

Parents of the 27 campers and counselors killed when floodwaters rushed through a summer camp in Texas' Hill Country pleaded with lawmakers Wednesday to pass a bill that would boost camp safety.

“I ask you, what could have been more important than that? But that assurance was betrayed because obvious common sense safety measures were absent, protocols that should have been in place were igno...

"Children's religious beliefs should be instilled by parents and faith communities, not politicians and public schools."

Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state's new requirement, making it the third such stat...

The judge agreed with plaintiffs that those displays “are likely to pressure” children “into religious observance, meditation on, veneration, and adoption” of the state’s favored religious doctrine w...

Texas Democrats who fled the state amid a holdout for a vote over redrawn congressional maps said Thursday they will return to Texas under two conditions.

A California legislative hearing turned into a shouting match Tuesday as a Republican lawmaker clashed with Democrats over a partisan plan to rewrite U.S. House maps to win Democrats more seats.