Senators Rick Scott of Florida and Ted Cruz of Texas are both running for re-election. Both narrowly won in 2018. Democrats feel there is an opportunity to flip those races — despite the fact Florida has not voted for a Democratic senator since 2012 and Texas has not sent a Democrat to Washington since 1988.

A nonpartisan election handicapper updated the rating for the Texas Senate race on Thursday, shifting the state toward Democrats after the Senate Democratic campaign arm announced a multi-million dollar investment in the state last week.

"The current reality is that Texas is too close for comfort," said Matt Mackowiak, who leads the Travis County Republican Party. Democrats have "long faced hurdles in the Lone Star State," said The Hill.

Texas State is staying put in the Sun Belt -- for now -- after receiving interest from the Mountain West, Bobcats athletic director Don Coryell announced Tuesday night. "The recent interest shown in Texas State and its presence across the college athletics landscape speaks volumes about the university and the work our staff and student-athletes have done to build the Bobcat brand nationally,

Texas State's talks with the Mountain West Conference have stalled, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Tuesday, and the school informed the Sun Belt Conference that it won't be leaving after the Bobcats program received a verbal offer over the weekend.

Texas is set to execute Garcia Glenn White for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters on Tuesday, which would make him the sixth inmate put to death in the U.S. in an 11-day period and the fifth execution in the state so far this year.

A Texas man linked to five killings and convicted of fatally stabbing twin 16-year-old girls more than three decades ago is facing execution on Tuesday evening.

A man who paid around $4,000 for a signed Taylor Swift guitar only to smash it with a hammer does not like her politics and his action was a "dig" at her. On Saturday, Gary Estes, 67, bid for the guitar signed by the "Bad Blood" singer at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner,