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Judges paint bleak picture as Texas seeks voter ID law OK

The Texas voter ID law came under heavy fire Friday from the three-judge panel charged with determining its legality under the Voting Rights Act. | 07/15/12 18:14:03 By - Maria Recio

Texas legislator testifies to feds that state's voter ID law is unfunded mandate

At issue in court in Washington is the Obama administration's refusal to pre-clear the law under the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voting in Southern states and other regions with a history of discrimination. | 07/12/12 19:23:37 By - By Maria Recio

Holder vote is likely a party-line split for Texas congressional delegation

Texas Democrats and Republicans are split almost entirely along party lines for today's Republican-led House vote on whether Attorney General Eric Holder is in contempt of Congress, but one Texas Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar of Laredo, is undecided. | 06/28/12 07:34:39 By - Maria Recio

Many miles from Texas, Lockheed Martin strikers march on at Patuxent River

Outside Gate 2 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, a group of striking machinists finished their early morning picketing along the town’s main road to go to Linda’s Cafe, a homey place with a Texas owner, to have some coffee. | 06/23/12 10:55:26 By - By Maria Recio

U.S. attacks Russia over copters for Syria, but Pentagon buys them, too

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is in the middle of a high-stakes diplomatic chess match over a Russian government-owned arms agent that supplies the U.S.-backed army in Afghanistan as well as President Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, which the United Nations says is embroiled in a civil war against anti-government rebels. | 06/13/12 18:54:54 By - By Maria Recio

Texas Sen. Cornyn calls on Eric Holder to resign as attorney general

In a riveting moment at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, barely containing his anger, told Attorney General Eric Holder that he should resign. | 06/13/12 07:26:11 By - Maria Recio

Texas eighth-grader advances at National Spelling Bee

Arlington eighth-grader Mark De Los Santos was cool and confident Wednesday at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After all, it is his second trip to the nationals. | 05/31/12 12:27:41 By - Maria Recio

Mitt Romney clinches GOP nomination with Texas vote

There was no drama or suspense, but Texas finally played a bit role in the presidential election Tuesday. It gave Mitt Romney enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination. | 05/30/12 06:44:45 By - Maria Recio

After closing arguments, bankruptcy judge advises American to make a deal

As American Airlines took its final stand Friday in U.S. bankruptcy court, the judge finished the lengthy hearing on a surprising note by telling the courtroom that the airline and its unions needed to work toward a deal. | 05/25/12 16:49:02 By - By Maria Recio

Workers picket Lockheed headquarters in solidarity with Fort Worth

The understated corporate neighborhood wedged between an interstate and the Washington, D.C., Beltway and home to Lockheed Martin Inc. took on a rowdy flavor Thursday with the shouting, chanting, sign-waving and heckling of more than 150 picketers supporting the International Association of Machinists’ strike. | 05/24/12 13:29:54 By - By Maria Recio

Iconic Cuban cigar goes un-smoked at home

The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender ones carefully for the center of the world’s most celebrated tobacco product: the Cuban cigar. | 05/16/12 14:31:36 By - By Maria Recio

American Airlines welcomes pacts with 1 union as pilots continue case in court

American Airlines got some welcome news from part of its workforce Tuesday as the Transport Workers Union announced that five of seven bargaining units had accepted management’s latest contract offer. | 05/15/12 17:07:41 By - By Maria Recio

American Airlines pilots ask bankruptcy judge to keep contracts intact

American Airlines’ pilots union pressed its case Monday before the U.S. bankruptcy court, asking the judge not to abrogate its contract with the carrier and laying out its offers to cut costs that American had rebuffed leading up to the court hearing. | 05/14/12 18:02:19 By - By Maria Recio

Robert and Anne Bass live in historic house in Washington, D.C.

Fort Worth billionaire Robert Bass and his wife, Anne, own a piece of Washington history -- a Georgetown home where Gen. Ulysses S. Grant lived after the Civil War. | 05/07/12 19:38:03 By - Maria Recio

American cites bleak finances in bankruptcy court

American Airlines on Tuesday made its most forceful case yet to terminate its labor contracts as the company’s top restructuring official laid out the airline’s bleak finances in bankruptcy court. | 04/24/12 19:11:03 By - By Maria Recio

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