For all practical purposes, the Republican race for the nomination has come down to two contenders, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

The problem with this, of course, is that once they graduate with this taxpayer-subsidized education, they’re still illegal aliens and so it’s illegal to hire them.

Despite his performances in the two most recent Republican presidential debates, a new national survey indicates that Texas Gov. Rick Perry remains on top of the field in the race for the GOP nomination

Rick Perry is pointing to three Texas counties that decades ago opted out of Social Security by creating personal retirement accounts.

Gov. Sam Brownback endorsed Texas Gov. Rick Perry for president on Thursday, citing Perry's record on creating jobs and reducing taxes.

Although Rick Perry said at a debate on Thursday that he was “lobbied” by a 31-year-old woman suffering from cervical cancer to require young girls to receive the HPV vaccine, he did not meet the cancer patient until after he had already issued his executive order mandating the vaccine.

After three debates, the consensus among conservative commentators is that GOP frontrunner Rick Perry is getting worse, not better.

"If you say that we should not educate children who come into our state for no other reason than that they've been brought their through no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart," Perry said.

Rick Perry’s clashes with conservative activists are nothing new: A bitter battle over racial preferences and liberal judges has raged in the tight-knit world of Lone Star politics since 2001.

Texas Tea Party leaders are unhappy with Gov. Rick Perry’s immigration-related positions and want him to call another special legislative session to give state lawmakers a third opportunity to ban sanctuary cities.

Answering a smattering of gunshots with a 300-round barrage should show drug runners that Texas law enforcement officers aren't messing around, authorities said.

Ultra-violent Mexican drug cartels are now “brazenly operating” on the U.S. side of the border, and are attempting to establish a “safe zone” 100 miles deep inside the United States

Officials say a second North Texas resident who became ill from listeria linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm has died.

The federal government has filed suit against BAE Systems alleging the company has violated disability laws by firing a morbidly obese employee at its Houston-area plant.

Sneaking it in late on a Friday afternoon on a very busy news day, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly told the Texas Secretary of State that the state’s Voter ID law – passed this past Spring – “lacked enough information for the government to render a decision.”

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels defended his description of Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" Tuesday, wading into a debate about the popular entitlement program that has enveloped the Republican primary.

Former volunteer firefighter arrested in connection with a blaze investigators say may have been intentionally set at George Bush Park.

It is a very simple bill, which will eliminate the corporate tax which serves as a tariff that our American companies pay on goods they produce here in America.

President Obama repeatedly asked members of Congress to pass the American Jobs Act last week. But when no Democrat filed Obama’s bill after he presented it to Congress, a conservative congressman swiped the name for his own legislation.

The White House announced late today that President Obama nominated Judge David Campos Guaderrama to fill a judicial vacancy in the Western District of Texas.

Police: Son rammed mother, then APD patrol car

The state climatologist for Texas says the record drought of 2011 could be only the beginning of a dry spell that could last until 2020.

The liberal media would like to impose a requirement: no outspoken evangelicals need apply.

The CEO of Gulf Island Fabrication, says the company intends to hire hundreds of workers in Louisiana and Texas as it begins work on new projects.

As many as 3,000 dead sharks were found tangled in a three-mile long illegal net off the coast of Texas, officials said.

An honors student in Fort Worth, Texas, was sent to the principal’s office and punished for telling a classmate that he believes homosexuality is wrong.

Life outside of prison proved overwhelming for a Texas man, who set a house on fire months after his release so he could go back behind bars.

Texas officials are preparing to spend as much as $20 million to redo a state-owned building that began showing signs of major structural problems only a decade after it was built.

Condemned inmates on their way to the Texas death chamber will no longer get to order a last meal, prison officials announced Thursday.

The U.S. Geological Survey reports that the 2.5-magnitude quake hit at 11:21 p.m. three miles northwest of Waxahachie.