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Kay Bailey Hutchison, former U.S. senator from Texas and NATO ambassador, spoke about the new presidential administration’s ...

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Donald Trump has won a decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election. Simply put, why? This question will dominate ...

Like Grover Cleveland, Donald Trump won election as president, lost the next election and won a third election to the US ...

WASHINGTON — As Speaker Mike Johnson marks one year on the job Friday, he’s fighting hard to preserve House Republicans’ razor-thin majority — and his speakership. Multiple House ...

After two assassination attempts, a forced White House retirement, and a historic amount of money spent on the campaign, the ...

Just ahead of Election Day, let's take a look at the US presidents and candidates for the top office who have visited Austin ...

Nixon on January 20, 1969, Lyndon Johnson returned to Texas, where his political career had begun nearly forty years before. He wrote his memoirs, The Vantage Point, taught students, and attended the ...