The state agency that owns Mercedes‑Benz Stadium paid over $600K on World Cup tickets and split an expensive suite with the city visitors bureau, raising questions about public spending.

The DLCC added a dozen GOP-held Texas House districts to a 15-seat target map, pushing national resources into suburban North Texas and San Antonio battlegrounds.

Lawmakers approved language changes to replace "mother" and "father" with gender-neutral terms across family law, a move sponsors say modernizes statutes for surrogacy.