Texas Senator Ted Cruz has hit out at Tucker Carlson and accused him of trying to play a "silly game" after an interview ...

But there’s a catch: the winner may have to endure a background check first. The caveat is an interesting one given that Cruz helped lead the effort to defeat a 2013 bill that would have ...

Cruz passed a background check, which looks at criminal history and whether someone has been found to be “mentally defective” by a court, said Peter Forcelli, the special agent in charge of ...

However, Cruz passed the FBI’s background check to be able to purchase his AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle in the past year, according to a U.S. official briefed on the investigation.

Several years ago, Cruz held multiple unelected positions in the federal government — jobs that, at least one of which, involved a background check. Based on TPM’s exhaustive research ...