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Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons was elected in November to represent District 146 in the Texas House. She sat down with The Texas Newsroom to lay out the details of her life before running for office.

As Pope Leo begins his new leadership role, he faces some criticism about past ministry. The leader of a group representing survivors of abuse by priests want to see the new pope to make zero tolerance for sex abuse a canon law.

Transportation leaders in North Texas say they'll "continue the conversation" with private partners over a proposed bullet train between Dallas and Houston.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said if the private sector wants the rail line, it should cover planning costs.

Advocates in Texas say there's some movement on legislation to improve rail projects in the state.

House Bill 1402, written in opposition to the long-planned bullet train between Texas' two largest cities, would prevent the use of state or local funding to alter roadways for the construction of high-speed rail.

The confirmation of Turner’s death came just months after he won Texas’ 18th Congressional District race.

GOGO Charters, which began renting out charter buses in major U.S. cities in 2012, is planning daily bus routes between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth as well Houston and San Antonio, with in-between stops in Katy and The Woodlands.

In the early hours of New Year's Day, a truck rammed into crowds on the French Quarter's heavily foot-trafficked street. Police are looking into whether the suspect had ties to any terror groups.

The FBI has identified the suspect in a deadly terrorist attack on New Orleans as Texas resident Shamsud-Din Jabbar.

The bidder that lost last month's auction of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' assets had complained that the process was rigged and "fatally flawed."

The Onion's bid to buy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars is scheduled to return to a Texas courtroom. A federal judge in Houston is set to hold a hearing Monday on whether a bankruptcy auction was run properly as Jones alleges collusion and fraud.