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Beto O’Rourke bets national attention lifts him in Texas race
If elections were decided by viral videos and fawning media profiles, Democrat Beto O'Rourke would win Texas' Senate race in a landslide.

Reunification prospects unclear for freed immigrant parents
A Texas charitable organization says about 30 immigrant parents separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were freed into its care Sunday, but they don't know where their...

For immigrants, still no word on when they will be reunited
Two days after President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separation of families at the border, federal authorities Friday were still working on a plan to reunite an estimated...

Dems’ chances may rest on flipping GOP strongholds in cities
As Dallas has evolved from reliably red to deeply blue, joining many other big cities, one enclave has remained the beating heart of country club conservatism — home to Cowboys...

Bombing suspect is dead, but why did he target Austin?
Authorities say a 24-year-old white man they developed as a suspect through video sources and witnesses was responsible for five bombings that killed two people and badly wounded four others...

With police near, suspected Austin bomber blows himself up
As a SWAT team closed in, the suspected bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for three weeks used one of his own devices to blow himself up.

Another blast rocks Austin, but unrelated to other bombings
Emergency teams rushed Tuesday night to another reported explosion in Austin — this one at a Goodwill store — but police and federal authorities said the blast wasn't related to...

Fear mounting in Austin as serial bomber uses tripwire along a street
Austin was rocked by the fourth bombing this month, which injured two people and which the police chief says was caused by a tripwire and showed "a different level of...

Package bombs in Texas capital likely tied to earlier blast
Two package bomb blasts a few miles apart killed a teenager and wounded two women in Austin on Monday, less than two weeks after a similar attack left a man...

Texas church gunman once escaped from mental health center
The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church was treated at a mental health center in New Mexico and briefly escaped in 2012, according to a police...