Manny Fernandez

A Houston grand jury that was investigating accusations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two abortion opponents who made undercover videos of the organization.

Two refugees from Iraq were arrested on terrorism-related charges on Thursday in California and Texas, where the governor called for an end to the resettlement of refugees from countries overrun by terrorist groups.

In a wooded 47-acre compound on the Trinity River, John Joe Gray quietly carried out what some call the longest standoff in America — a few days shy of 15 years.

A new law takes effect that allows certain Texans to wear their handguns in holsters on their hips — or in shoulder holsters, Dirty Harry-style — openly displaying the fact that they are armed as they work, shop, dine and go about their day.

Together, Sens. Rubio and Cruz, of Florida and Texas, represent a watershed moment in American politics: Two Hispanics running as top-tier candidates for president, and increasingly gunning for each other.

Through speeches, yard signs, T-shirts, banners and ads on TV, the radio and the Internet, opponents zeroed in on a narrow issue whose very relevance was disputed by political rivals: bathrooms, and access to them.

A defeat for an anti-discrimination ordinance that had drawn a national spotlight and inspired many months of rancorous, costly debate.

Death-penalty states are finding it harder to carry out executions as they struggle to obtain and properly use limited supplies of ever-changing combinations of suitable drugs.

Death-penalty states are finding it harder to carry out executions as they struggle to obtain and properly use limited supplies of ever-changing combinations of suitable drugs.

A shootout among members of several rival motorcycle gangs in a busy shopping plaza in the Central Texas city of Waco on Sunday left at least nine bikers dead and 18 others injured, creating chaos in a sprawling parking lot packed with afternoon shoppers, law enforcement officials said.

The questions being raised by right-wing bloggers and conservative commentators about a Pentagon training exercise called Jade Helm 15 traverse the outer edges of political paranoia.

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas was indicted Friday on two felony counts by a state grand jury examining his handling of a local district attorney’s drunken-driving arrest and the state financing for a public corruption unit under the lawyer’s control.

Overwhelmed by an influx of unaccompanied minors who are fleeing violence in their home countries in Central America, federal officials are searching the country for places to house them and have been forced to scrap some proposed shelter sites in California, Connecticut, Iowa, New York and other states because of widespread opposition from residents and local officials, some of it extreme.