Maria Recio
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He lost after a law changed; can he win now that it’s changing again?
A landmark court ruling that forces a loosening of Texas voter-ID rules is giving the Democrat in a close congressional race an edge. Pete Gallego, a Latino Democrat running in the majority Latino District 23, is counting on voter turnout to win his old seat back from Will Hurd, an African-American Republican who beat Gallego in 2014. The 800-mile district stretches from San Antonio, along the… → Read More
Damaged USS Fort Worth has repairs on its horizon
Fort Worth’s damaged namesake Navy ship may be heading back soon from Singapore to San Diego for repairs and maintenance with a new captain and crew. Its former commander was relieved after a maintenance failure. Littoral combat ships have lost the support of the secretary of defense, although the Navy secretary is a booster. → Read More
Texas tribe wins 10-year fight over its use of eagle feathers
Ten years after an undercover federal agent crashed a powwow of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas in McAllen and seized their ceremonial eagle feathers, the tribe and other affected parties have reached a settlement with the Interior Department. The tribe, which is not federally recognized, gets to keep the feathers and gets its court costs paid, too. → Read More
In Indiana, Kasich voters rebel against Cruz
Some of John Kasich’s supporters in Indiana are disappointed that the Ohio governor is bypassing their state and are not buying into the “stop Trump” vote. Some voters see the pact and the early vice presidential choice of Carly Fiorina by Ted Cruz to be political gamesmanship. → Read More
Doomed to fail? Cruz-Kasich alliance is high risk
The surprising non-aggression pact between Ted Cruz and John Kasich is an effort to each win delegates – and stop Trump from getting enough to win the GOP nomination on the first ballot. But polls show that Kasich voters are not Cruz voters and Trump voters are the most loyal of all. → Read More
Tabloid says it has proof: Ted Cruz’s father is mystery man in Lee Harvey Oswald photo
The National Enquirer has published what it says is conclusive evidence that Ted Cruz’s father, Rafael B. Cruz, is the man photographed next to suspected JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald distributing pro-Castro leaflets in 1963 in New Orleans. → Read More
Senate bill to let 9/11 families sue Saudis might get vote next week
A Senate bill that would allow U.S. citizens to sue countries that funded terrorism on American soil, targeted at Saudi Arabia, has roiled the White House and the Saudi kingdom, which is threatening to pull $750 billion out of the U.S. But the bipartisan bill, led by Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a real chance of Senate approval as lawmakers work out some last-minute… → Read More
Supreme Court to hear challenge to Obama’s immigration action
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday over the legality of an Obama administration executive action deferring deportations of undocumented immigrant parents of U.S.-born or legal resident children. U.S. v. Texas No. 15-674. → Read More
Cruz campaign: Tabloid’s D.C. Madam story is ‘garbage’
The National Enquirer suggests that Sen. Ted Cruz was in the “black book” of the late D.C. Madam – an unsubstantiated report that comes as her attorney is trying to release her records, which he says will affect the presidential campaign. → Read More
Ted Cruz blasts tabloid’s ‘garbage’ report of affairs
Ted Cruz fires back against a National Enquirer story that links him to five women, blaming Donald Trump and his “henchmen.” Cruz and Trump are locked in a close race in Wisconsin as they fight for the GOP presidential nomination. → Read More
Ted Cruz blasts tabloid’s ‘garbage’ report of affairs
Ted Cruz fires back against a National Enquirer story that links him to five women, blaming Donald Trump and his “henchmen.” Cruz and Trump are locked in a close race in Wisconsin as they fight for the GOP presidential nomination. → Read More
Is Cruz sacrificing outsider status to be GOP elites’ #neverTrump candidate?
There’s a palpable sense of resignation, as GOP stalwarts come to view the Texas senator as the only alternative to Donald Trump. → Read More
Trump tweets threat about Cruz’s wife
Donald Trump and arch-rival Ted Cruz are now in a stand-off over their wives. → Read More
Trump tweets threat about Cruz’s wife
Donald Trump and arch-rival Ted Cruz are now in a stand-off over their wives. → Read More
Ted Cruz faces a difficult path to nomination
Ted Cruz has won four primary states, displayed a formidable ground game that churns out loyal voters and turned in a lauded debate performance in which he pierced a few holes in the record of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. → Read More
Trump winning evangelicals? Not at this Christian university.
Billionaire Donald Trump may have attracted unexpected support from Christian evangelicals in early voting states but at Regent University, an iconic conservative Christian institution in the coastal city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, he is a hard sell. → Read More
Texas congressional leaders say more must be done to protect the border
Texas congressmen who recently toured the Rio Grande Valley border weren’t happy with what they saw. → Read More
Cruz campaign pulls TV ad: actress has a porn past
Cruz soon decided that he definitely did not approve this message, and the ad was pulled -- because an actress with a key line wasn't what she seemed to some viewers. → Read More
Cruz campaign pulls TV ad: actress has a porn past
Cruz soon decided that he definitely did not approve this message, and the ad was pulled -- because an actress with a key line wasn't what she seemed to some viewers. → Read More
Another Cruz mailer in the cross-hairs
Ted Cruz’s mailers are getting a lot more attention - not the kind he necessarily wants. → Read More