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The STRATEGIC Minerals Act was originally introduced in 2024 and builds on Senator Young’s efforts to ensure the United States has access to critical mineral supply chains and is countering China’s ...

When asked about President Donald Trump's overall approach to immigration enforcement, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas said he supported it.

The new bill reinforces Gov. Greg Abbott’s push for the federal government to repay the $11 billion Texas has paid for the ...

President Trump’s declarations that the U.S. will take and rebuild Gaza and that Arab allies should take in displaced ...

The episode adds another wrinkle in the strenuous confirmation of RFK Jr. to be HHS secretary, NIH’s parent agency, that he is forced to iron out.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has hinted at a possible run, has more support than the four-term senator among Republicans, ...

Senate members led by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, have introduced the Situational Awareness of Flying Elements in Orbit, or ...

If people know other people are speaking out — in the history of this country, that is what has changed things,” one ...

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn gives President Donald Trump an A grade, a full-on embrace that has implications for the senator’s ...

Gov. Greg Abbott, who has urged congressional leaders to pay the state, is set to visit Capitol Hill Wednesday.

Trump’s idea of remaking Gaza as a real estate development is not a complete outlier in the long, troubled history of U.S.