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Prediction market platform Kalshi announced Wednesday that it has suspended three congressional candidates and imposed financial penalties after they were caught trading on their own election campaigns in violation of the platform’s rules.

Baylor University is sabotaging a Turning Point USA event, set for Wednesday evening, by denying ticket holders from the greater Waco community, the organization says.

The Houston City Council, by a vote of 13-4, passed a new policy resolution that appears to resolve the dispute with the State of Texas over ICE cooperation. Shortly before today’s 2-hour debate and vote, Houston ICE officials announced officers arrested 277 criminal aliens in the Houston area during the past two weeks.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said that decreasing the number of GOP-leaning seats in Virginia from five to one is “a response to Donald Trump’s efforts to rig the midterm

Voters in Virginia weighed on how they felt about the state’s redistricting referendum, which would allow Virginia’s congressional maps to be redrawn in favor of the Democrats.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was once under investigation for perjury for signing conflicting statements about his residence in an attempt to remain the highest-paid judge in Texas and was later accused of “double dipping” by supplementing his Senate salary with public pensions that he failed to disclose for years.

On Sunday morning around 2 a.m., an alleged intruder in Houston, Texas shattered the glass in the door of a house and the homeowner shot him.

Activist and investigative journalist Laura Loomer highlighted federal campaign finance records showing former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove gave money to two committees tied to Sen. John Cornyn’s re-election effort, less than three months before the May 26 Republican runoff in Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on virtually all fronts in the upcoming GOP Senate primary runoff, with a new survey showing him in an eight-point lead over the incumbent and also sweeping amongst Latino voters, young voters, and Trump-aligned voters.

Houston could lose critical police, fire, and homeland security funding after state officials ruled that the city’s newly adopted immigration ordinance violates its public safety grant requirements, Mayor John Whitmire said Monday. The city stands to lose approximately $110 million in state grant funding if it does not reverse the newly enacted policy.

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) confirmed that he would be filing to retire from Congress after he admitted to having an affair with a former aide who committed suicide last year.

Texas is launching an investigation into the major athletic apparel brand Lululemon Athletica Inc. over the potential presence of “forever chemicals” in the apparel.

Five alleged cattle rustlers were arrested in Texas Friday after a lengthy investigation that was launched in December.

In a bid to keep a massive U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (ICE) processing and detention facility from opening in the Alamo city, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is pleading with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to reconsider the agency’s plans. In a letter sent to Mullin last week, Ortiz Jones says, My community is not interested in hosting an ICE processing facility.”

Houston police officials say that a man was shot and killed by a police sergeant during an altercation resulting from a traffic stop on the city’s northwest side. Sources told Breitbart Texas that the man struck the officer with an object prior to the shooting.

Two men were arrested near Seguin, Texas, after law enforcement officers discovered the pair was allegedly transporting stolen vehicles concealed in two semi-tractor trailers. The two men, described as Honduran nationals by the Guadalupe County Sheriff’s office, were found in possession of six stolen vehicles valued at more than $470,000.

Several Hollywood celebrities, including Jodie Foster, Ben Stiller, Spike Lee, and Edward Norton have joined the list of those calling for the “immediate closure” of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.

The family of a teenager in Texas has filed a lawsuit against the distributor of an energy drink after she died in October.

The former FedEx driver who admitted murdering a 7-year-old girl in Paradise, Texas, told investigators he “tossed” her body into the woods. 

The New York Post is reporting new details on a March 15, 2026, incident in which an armed man was tackled in Eden Church in Houston, Texas.

Momentum continues to build for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s campaign to unseat longtime Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) as Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) has now endorsed Paxton, Breitbart News can exclusively reveal.

Newly published text messages show Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) repeatedly sought nude photos and a sexual relationship with his campaign political director during his 2020 congressional campaign, years before his affair with congressional staffer Regina Santos-Aviles, which he recently admitted to.

Rapper Pooh Shiesty and his father were reportedly arrested by the FBI on federal kidnapping and robbery charges involving music executive Gucci Mane.

Taxpayers may be shelling out millions to rename city streets and boulevards named in honor of United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union leader Cesar Chavez after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced in March. In San Antonio alone, city leaders project their renaming effort could cost as much as $200,000.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Texas issued a detainer to Dallas County officials, placing a hold on a Mexican illegal alien accused of slitting his newlywed wife’s throat with a pocketknife. The detainer asks Dallas County law enforcement to surrender the Mexican national to their custody if he is released on bond.

The City of Houston, led by Democratic Mayor John Whitmire, removed a social media post announcing that city offices would be closed Friday for a “Spring holiday” after drawing condemnation for not identifying the day as Good Friday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers interdicted a cartel shipment of 1,055 packages of methamphetamines hidden in a commercial shipment manifested by importers as a simple load of carrots. The smugglers, hoping to cash in on the street value of the narcotics, are now under criminal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Pedro Pascal, Madonna, and Mark Ruffalo, among others, are demanding that a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Texas be shut down. “Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” an open letter — signed by several Hollywood insiders — lectured.

A crowd of several thousand people held a demonstration just blocks away from the historic Alamo in downtown San Antonio. The crowd was part of the latest “No Kings” rallies taking part across the country.

The heir to a Texas oil fortune has been ordered to pay $1.1 billion in damages for brutally beating his two-year-old stepson, condemning the boy to a wheelchair, a ventilator, and around-the-clock care.

Harrowing body camera footage from police in Texas emerged Saturday showing the dramatic moments heroic officers, without wearing breathing equipment, evacuate people from smoke-filled rooms in a motel on fire.

A high school football coach in Edinburg, Texas, is facing an ongoing civil trial over allegations that he forced students to work out naked. The Edinburg Consolidated School District is also a party in the lawsuit, alleging that it covered up the case and handled the issue internally rather than turning it over to law enforcement.

Approximately 800 unruly teens trashed a $4.8 million Airbnb Texas Mansion during a wild party that spun into mayhem and gunfire.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the largest animal liberation organization, chimed in on the looming water crisis facing the Texas coastal bend city of Corpus Christi. PETA says residents can help avert the crisis by enacting a dietary change by dropping their meat diets and “choosing vegan meals.”

GEORGE BUSH INTERCONTINENTAL AIRPORT, Texas — Passengers at Houston’s largest airport felt an immediate and positive impact as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrived to work alongside unpaid TSA agents. Screening lines that stretched to about four hours, according to airport officials, were reduced to about an hour when the ICE officers’ shift began.