Fury over reported federal plan targeting transgender people

WASHINGTON (AP) - LGBTQ leaders across the U.S. reacted with fury Monday to a report that the Trump administration is considering adoption of a new definition of gender that would effectively deny federal recognition and civil rights protections to transgender Americans.

Sandra Day O'Connor announces likely Alzheimer's diagnosis

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, says she has the beginning stages of dementia and "probably Alzheimer's disease."

Early voting in Texas begins with lines, strong turnout

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Early voting opened across Texas on Monday, bringing long lines and record first-day midterm turnout in Houston and complaints about outdated technology slowing people casting ballots elsewhere.

'Baby Trump' balloon appears in Houston outside of MAGA rally

A balloon depicting President Donald Trump as a baby has appeared in Houston ahead of the "Make America Great Again” rally Monday evening.

President Trump rallies for Senator Ted Cruz in Houston

With two weeks to go until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump rallied his supporters in Houston on Monday in support of Senator Ted Cruz's re-election campaign.

Trump escalates immigration rhetoric at rally to boost Cruz

HOUSTON (AP) - President Donald Trump escalated his immigration rhetoric at a midterm rally in Texas on Monday, falsely accusing Democrats of "encouraging millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation."

North Texans cast early votes in record-breaking numbers

Early voting began on Monday across Texas and a hotly contested U.S. Senate race is driving a large number of people to the polls.

Anti-Ted Cruz message spotted on billboard truck near Houston Galleria

A Texas activist raised thousands of dollars for a billboard on wheels one of President Trump's tweets bashing U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. The truck was spotted near Houston's Galleria area on Monday, the day of the Trump Rally supporting Ted Cruz. 

At dueling events, Trump and Biden keeping focus on Nevada

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, a potential White House challenger in 2020, are making election pushes several hundred miles apart from each other in pivotal Nevada, where early voting was beginning Saturday.

Pete Sessions, Mark Veasey speak candidly in congressional forum

Different views of the political landscape laid out before the Regional Chamber of Commerce on Friday as the business community looked through the political lens of both Republican Representative Pete Sessions and Democrat Marc Veasey.

Texas' O'Rourke tells national audience he'd impeach Trump

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democratic Senate hopeful Beto O'Rourke told a national television audience Thursday night that he'd vote to impeach President Donald Trump and believes Texas can lead the way to a national embracing of relaxed immigration policies and gun control - unapologetically liberal positions that may be hard for some in his deep-red state to stomach.

Biden: 'I hope' Democrats don't impeach Trump

(FOX NEWS) - Former Vice President Joe Biden said he doesn’t think Democratic leadership should try to impeach President Trump if they win back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections. Biden, an oft-critical voice of Trump and his administration, told “CBS This Morning” in an interview released Wednesday that “there’s no basis” to introduce...

Trump threatens Mexico over migrant caravan

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is lashing out over a caravan of Central American migrants trying to reach the United States, saying that if Mexico does not stop the effort, he will use the military to "CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER."