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State Senator Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, walks into the Senate Chamber near her husband Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, right, in the Texas Senate chambers during his impeachment trial on September ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has faced an impeachment and indictments, and he doesn’t want anyone to forget about it. As he campaigns for the U.S. Senate, Paxton is using some of the darkest ...

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Angela Paxton, the fed-up wife of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, clobbered him with divorce papers in July, and now a report has emerged that the politician cheated on her with mom of ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he sent a letter to the University of North Texas "demanding answers" after he alleges a student was kicked out of class for denouncing the ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is requesting records of his 2026 opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, to determine whether he used taxpayer funds to pay for trips to meet his alleged mistress. Cornyn ...

For more than a decade, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sold himself to voters as a conservative Christian they could count on to fight abortion access, transgender rights and other issues ...

A spokesperson for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dismissed a Daily Mail report Monday alleging he had an affair with an aspiring Christian influencer, but didn't specifically dispute the ...

Cornyn, Texas' senior U.S. senator, has been cast in the role of underdog ever since Attorney General Ken Paxton announced in April that he would challenge the four-term incumbent in next year's ...

The morning after news broke that Texas House Democrats planned to return to the state, effectively ending their efforts to block Republicans from redrawing the state’s congressional maps, Attorney ...