Ken Paxton’s lavish globe-trotting on taxpayer dime lands in crosshairs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken about 350 trips outside the state with a taxpayer-funded security detail since 2015, including 25 to foreign countries such as South Africa, India and Aruba, according to a new analysis.The New York Times found that security costs alone have topped $3.1 million and peaked at more than $483,000 in 2024. State records don’t...