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WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn will support the “Republican ticket” in November, but he says he still believes Attorney General Ken Paxton is a lawbreaker unfit for office and will put the seat at risk in November. “I stand by everything I said...
Cathy McHorse, an Austin educator whose advocacy helped reshape early childhood policy and laid the groundwork for the passage of a landmark childcare funding initiative, died May 23 after suffering a sudden brain bleed. She was 57. For...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is scrapping plans to create a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate allies of the Republican president, the Justice Department’s top official said Tuesday in retreating from a program that faced...
Hunting for cash Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Monday he is “fully and enthusiastically” supporting Paxton, who he said has the most conservative record of any state attorney general in the country. He said Talarico is too liberal for...
