FOX 7 Austin's chief political reporter Rudy Koski and our panel of analysts take a look at the top stories in Texas politics from this week.

Former Texas Congressman and ex-director of national intelligence assumes CIA leadership amid bipartisan Senate approval - Anadolu Ajansı

The former Texas congressman said the CIA needed to return to its core missions following criticism from Donald Trump the agency was politically biased.

A former U.S. Representative from Texas is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence agency. John Ratcliffe, who previously represented the 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2020, was tapped this week to be CIA director for the upcoming administration.

Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.

Millions of documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas have already been made public, but President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of still-c

The agency said it has “low confidence” in its judgment and that it would continue evaluating new intelligence reporting.

Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team on a 59-34 vote.

While many files on John F Kennedy's assassination have been released over the years, it's thought that around 3,000 records are still to be released

Here’s a look at how Colorado members of Congress voted over the previous week. Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House also passed a bill (H.R. 207), to direct the Secretary of Commerce to establish a task force regarding shark depredation.

President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.