Texas leaders and the U.S. Justice Department made an 11th-hour agreement over federal monitors at polling places on Election Day. The big picture: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton late Monday ...

A federal judge late Monday denied Missouri’s effort to ban monitors from accessing voting locations ... Texas withdrew a request to keep monitors out, after reaching an agreement with the ...

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department quietly ... but he was acquitted by the Republican-led Texas Senate, where his wife is a senator but did not cast a vote during the trial.

The U.S. Justice Department decided months ago not to prosecute ... year, the Texas House voted to impeach Paxton, but he was acquitted by the Senate in a largely party-line vote.