A giant zorb ball gets dropped from a massive dam to see what really happens in free fall. But instead of falling straight down, the ball starts curving through the air in a bizarre sideways spin. The ...

We took giant inflatable Zorb balls to a remote island for an all-out game of King of the Island. The rules are simple — stay on the island, knock everyone else off, and be the last one standing. It’s ...

The Republican plans to pick off five Democratic-held congressional seats in Texas once seemed like a sure thing. Not anymore. President Donald Trump’s flagging approval ratings, particularly among ...

So many data center requests have flooded into Texas that the demand is impossible to meet, energy experts say. Speculative projects are clogging the pipeline to connect to the state's electric grid, ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday restored for now Texas' newly redrawn congressional map that could give Republicans five additional House seats, after a lower court found that some of the ...

While the College Football Playoff debate rages on, Texas football continued to build for the future by signing 23 players as part of its 2026 class. Quarterback Dia Bell and athlete Jermaine Bishop, ...

A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state’s new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms by declaring it a likely racial gerrymander, dealing a blow to ...

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday ordered the civil arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled the state to block a vote on a Republican-backed congressional redistricting plan, escalating a standoff that ...

Texas Democrats fled the state Sunday to deny the GOP a legislative quorum as part of an effort to prevent Republicans from redrawing the Lone Star State’s congressional maps. The move deprives the ...

Here is why Democrats in the Texas House left the state, why Republicans in the Legislature want to redraw political maps and why other states are involved. By J. David Goodman Shane Goldmacher and ...

Texas Republicans released a proposed new congressional map Wednesday that would give the GOP a path to pick up five seats in next year’s midterm elections. The proposal, which follows President ...