Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold said Thursday he would not seek re-election to a fifth term, apologizing for his angry outbursts but denying sexual harassment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas Republican Apologizes for Saying He'd 'Consider' Dumping Donald Trump if He Said He Liked Raping Women (ABC News) A Texas ...

Former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold can be deposed in a newspaper's lawsuit that argues the Calhoun Port Authority violated Open Meetings law when it hired him, a judge ruled. The Victoria Advocate, a ...

Taxpayer money was used to pay a $84,000 settlement in a sexual harassment claim that was levied against an unnamed House member’s office, according to information that was released by a House panel ...

Rep. Blake Farenthold, who’s under fire for accusations of sexual harassment, is not planning to run for re-election, he said in a video Thursday. “I’d never served in office before. I had no idea how ...

CORPUS CHRISTI (Kiii News) — Congressman Blake Farenthold resigned from U.S. Congress Friday, sending a notice to Texas Governor Greg Abbott and a statement to the media. Farenthold said his ...

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Newly-released statistics show taxpayers paid more than $342,000 to settle workplace discrimination disputes at House lawmakers' offices between 2008 and 2012, including nearly $175,000 for eight ...

WASHINGTON -- All he had to do was ask, it turned out.Two Texas holdouts on the GOP's plan to repeal Obamacare, conservative Reps. John Ratcliffe and Blake Farenthold, emerged from an Oval Office ...

And I'm Audie Cornish. The heat this week in Corpus Christi, Texas, is not just the weather. It's also political, and it's felt especially by Blake Farenthold. He's a Republican who represents the ...