Late-night host Stephen Colbert isn't backing down from his public dispute with CBS bosses over what he can air on his show.

Stephen Colbert says his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico was pulled from Monday's broadcast over fears it would violate “equal time” guidance from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping up his race for the U.S. Senate with early voting about to begin for the March 3 GOP primary.

A beloved local pilot and his wife tragically lost their lives in a crash in Texas this week. The couple owned an aviation company based in Orlando.

UConn, UCLA, South Carolina and Vanderbilt would be the No. 1 seeds in the women’s NCAA Tournament if it began now.

A husband and wife from Orlando were reportedly killed in a plane crash out of East Texas on Wednesday night.

Federal immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 billion to boost detention capacity to 92,600 beds.

Some school districts in the U.S. dropped plans for class pictures after widespread social media posts linked a billionaire with ties to Jeffrey Epstein to the photography giant Lifetouch.

A federal judge says the U.S. government has to bring a Babson College freshman back after officials deported her to Honduras.

The parents of an Alabama girl who was killed at Camp Mystic are seeking more safety oversight on summer camps.

The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas.

Jayden Pierre’s 3-pointer put TCU ahead with 48 seconds left and the Horned Frogs scored the final 12 points to upset No. 5 Iowa State 62-55.

Robert Wright III answered the boos in his return to Baylor, posting the first 30-point game of his career as No. 22 BYU ended a four-game losing streak with a 99-94 victory over the Bears.

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., after completing a 15-week trek from Texas that captivated the country.

The U.S. has opened its first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades in southern Texas.

U.S. births slightly decreased in 2025.

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying millions of bubblegum-colored eggs and tiny bugs called delphacids that can wipe out half a rice field while spreading plant disease.

One of the most devastating parasites in Florida’s history has once again been detected in the Sunshine State.

The six people killed when a private jet crashed in Maine were going to see a property for a luxury travel business led by a Houston lawyer.

Voters in Texas' 18th District have had little break in a series of elections as the result of the Republican-controlled state Legislature's redrawing of congressional districts last year.

Kansas standout freshman Darryn Peterson finally finished a game for the No. 11 Jayhawks.

Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson scored 19 points, including two 3-pointers in the final 1:20 for his only field goals of the second half, and the 11th-ranked Jayhawks overcame a late nine-point deficit to beat No. 13 Texas Tech 64-61.

Florida has brought in millions over the past few years. But according to a new report, over half a million have fled.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

North Carolina and South Carolina have become two hot spots for growth in the United States.

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.

Houston voters who have gone almost a year without representation in the U.S. House will finally fill the seat in a special runoff election.

The next astronauts set to visit the space station will hold a news conference in Houston.

Anti-tax advocates are pushing to eliminate property taxes for homeowners.

Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro and Jasmine Crockett have met with a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas immigration detention center, a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

A 911 call shows that a Nicaraguan man who died at a Texas detention camp days after he was detained by immigration authorities in Minneapolis is suspected of dying by suicide.

A NASA research plane has landed without its landing gear in Texas, sending plumes of flame behind it.

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas universities and state agencies on Tuesday to halt new H-1B visa petitions until next year.

Authorities say three brothers died in Texas after falling through ice on a pond as a massive winter storm has gripped much of the nation.

Three Texas siblings who died in an icy pond are among several dozen deaths in U.S. states gripped by frigid cold.

The Southeastern Conference has set a record with 10 teams in The Associated Press women's Top 25 basketball poll.

The weather in Florida is about to FLIP out.

Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

In a story published Jan. 24, 2026, about a debate for the U.S. Senate in Texas, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date that a man was fatally shot in Minneapolis by federal officers.

A private security guard told a 911 dispatcher that a Cuban immigrant at a Texas detention center tried to hang himself, was restrained by guards in handcuffs, and stopped breathing during a subsequent struggle.

Officials have declared that a Texas Black man executed nearly 70 years ago is innocent in a case prosecutors now say was based on false evidence and riddled with racial bias.

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The College Football Playoff will remain at 12 teams after the commissioners of the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten couldn’t come up with a compromise for expansion.

Forecasters say over half the U.S. population could be affected by snow, ice or bitter cold as a winter storm sweeps across the county.

News 6 Weather Newsletter.

Texas has become the top source of new residents for nine other states, despite its own population growth.

The latest federal data was just released, revealing that nearly 900,000 people have moved to the Sunshine State. News 6 takes a look at where they all came from.

Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones have been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.

Federal officials say an immigrant from Nicaragua has been found dead at a Texas immigration detention facility.

College football leaders gave every indication that they remain stuck in a yearlong debate about expanding the playoff from 12 teams to 16 or beyond.

Eligibility lawsuits, the out-of-control transfer portal, bickering over congressional legislation and the decades-old dilemma over coaches and their salaries were the steady drumbeat behind a college football season where nothing felt quite settled.

The NFL will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by displaying “Choose Love” in the end zones and on helmet decals for all divisional round playoff games this weekend.

Reported measles cases in South Carolina surged by almost 30% in the last few days.

Four-term Texas Sen. John Cornyn is in the political fight of his career.

A new study released this week by moveBuddha has revealed the top destinations for movers across the country — and it turns out that the Sunshine State is ranked No. 1.

Joyce Edwards had 14 points and eight rebounds, Tessa Johnson added 13 points and No. 2 South Carolina avenged its only loss this season by beating No. 4 Texas 68-65 for its 11th straight win.

A panel of federal judges has sided with California in the fight over a new U.S. House map approved by voters.

Officials say over 100,000 residents in the Texas border city of El Paso were left with little to no water after a main break over the weekend, and it was expected to take till mid-week for operations to return to normal.

South Carolina climbed to No. 2 in the latest AP women's basketball Top 25.

Mikaylah Williams scored 20 points, capped by her 3 as the shot clock expired with 1:20 to go in the game, and No. 12 LSU handed second-ranked Texas its first loss this season, 70-65.

State health officials in South Carolina have confirmed 99 new cases of measles since Tuesday.

The PGA Tour has released its FedEx Cup Fall schedule and it has eight tournaments, the same as last season.

This week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took to social media to tout a new report by moving company U-Haul.

The first day of testimony in the trial of a former police officer accused of failing to protect students who died in the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre turned emotional right away.

The Fiesta Bowl will be a College Football Playoff game like no other.

A Texas prosecutor says a school police officer made no attempt to distract or stop the gunman during the school shooting in Uvalde in 2022.

A Texas judge has seated a jury in the trial of a former school police officer who was part of the hesitant law enforcement response to the Uvalde school shooting in 2022.

Experts say home care can affect your health and finances.

One of the first officers on the scene at the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is about to stand trial.

While fans trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium where tickets were going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 said “everything is on the table” when it comes to rebooting the College Football Playoff, including potentially moving another round of games onto campus.

These Ohio State Buckeyes won’t win the first back-to-back national championships in school history and the College Football Playoff still doesn’t have a winner from teams with the first-round byes.

Orlando’s final college bowl game of 2025 took place on New Year’s Eve at Camping World Stadium, drawing thousands of fans for the Cheez-It Bowl — and for many, the decision to spend the day at the stadium instead of downtown Orlando was an easy one.

Anthony Rendon has agreed to restructure the final year of his $245 million, seven-year contract with the Los Angeles Angels, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.

The Cowboys have waived cornerback Trevon Diggs.

Michigan and Texas made it clear: Both teams want to play and win the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl.

Senior Kyla Oldacre scored a career-high 22 points and Madison Booker added 20 to help No. 2 Texas finish its non-conference schedule undefeated with a 120-38 victory over Southeastern Louisiana.

The College Football Playoff's first round averaged 9.9 million viewers across multiple networks, marking a 7% drop from last year.

Mexico's president says air traffic controllers lost communication for 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane on a medical mission before it crashed off the Texas coast.

Nearly six months after a roaring flood killed 25 girls and two counselors at Camp Mystic in central Texas, the 100-year-old camp will begin enrolling new campers in January.

Officials say a small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient along with seven others has crashed near Galveston.

Ryan Day will call the offensive plays for Ohio State during the College Football Playoff.

UConn, Texas, South Carolina, and UCLA remain at the top of The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll.

Miami brought a nasty defense into Texas A&M Saturday to down the seventh-seeded Aggies in the College Football Playoff.

Partners at the International Crane Foundation and The Conservation Fund have secured permanent protection of more than 3,300 acres of high-priority wintering habitat for whooping cranes near Port Aransas, Texas.

The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.

Texas is suing the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history.

The Philadelphia Phillies and outfielder Adolis García have agreed on a one-year contract for the 2026 season.

The Associated Press has released its All-America team, featuring four Ohio State players among 10 first-team picks from the Big Ten.

The Justice Department and California are facing off in federal court over the state's new congressional map that favors Democrats.

Veteran starting pitcher Merrill Kelly has agreed to return to the Arizona Diamondbacks on a $40 million, two-year deal, according to a person familiar with the move.

A new study by MovingPlace tracked the most in-demand ZIP codes in America and one Florida neighborhood cracked the top 10.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on a Texas free speech case.

The Big Ten has matched the Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball record with nine ranked teams.

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas.

Big 12 Commission Brett Yormark says legislation currently stalled in Congress is needed to regulate college athletics and put a stop to what he essentially calls uncapped spending for name, image and likeness in football.

Stacker compiled a list of the most commonly hunted migratory birds in Florida using data from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Newly released recordings of 911 calls show Texas residents and staffers at Camp Mystic caught up in the catastrophic flooding in July pleaded for help as rushing waters rise around them, stranding them in attics and on roofs.

Rep. Darrell Issa tells the Associated Press he isn’t moving to Texas to run for Congress.