Texas has spent decades selling itself as a place where businesses can build, families can prosper and economic growth has room to run. Now that success is creating a new problem: The state may be growing faster than its infrastructure can keep up. Nowhere is that challenge more apparent than on the electric grid. Population growth, new manufacturing plants, oil and gas operations and a massive wave of artificial-intelligence data centers are creating unprecedented demand for

WASHINGTON — With fewer than three months remaining before the 2026 midterm elections, Americans are preparing to decide far more than who represents them in Congress. The November vote is rapidly becoming a referendum on President Donald Trump’s second term — and a battle that could determine whether he governs his final two years with a Republican Congress or faces a Democratic-controlled chamber determined to challenge his agenda. Every one of the 435 seats in the House of

Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback will remain on Florida's August 18 primary ballot after Leon County Circuit Judge David Frank rejected a legal challenge from rival candidate and Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, who argued the 31-year-old failed to meet the state's seven-year residency requirement for governor. Collins' lawsuit, filed in June, centered on Fishback's ties to Washington, D.C., including a 2020 D.C. voter registration, mortgage paperwork on a Washington co

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump used a nationally televised primetime address Thursday night to unveil newly declassified intelligence documents that he said reveal foreign efforts to influence U.S. elections and shortcomings in how intelligence was handled during the 2020 election. He argued the documents justify stronger election security measures and renewed congressional action. President Trump speaking to the nation. By Brent Cassity Reporting from Huntsville,