House Freedom Caucus member Matt Krause challenges Ken Paxton for Texas attorney general
The Fort Worth lawmaker, who has been close to Paxton, is the third serious primary challenger to emerge. Full Story
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![State Rep. Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth, reads proposed legislation while on the House floor on July 29, 2021.]()
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Texas doctors, seeing unprecedented numbers of pregnant patients with COVID-19, urge pregnant people to get vaccinated
Pregnant women are getting vaccinated at lower rates than the general population. “This variant is much more aggressive, [and] pregnant women are getting sicker much faster,” one doctor says. Full Story
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![Lauren Lewis with her four-month-old baby Langston Lewis at their home in Dallas on Sept. 14, 2021. Lauren was infected with COVID-19 while three months pregnant with Langston. Lauren was vaccinated in January before giving birth to him in April.]()
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Analysis: Population changes the recipe for Texas’ political soup
Not every change in the state’s political maps starts with party affiliation. Geography and population are giving Republican mapmakers new headaches. Full Story
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Federal judge will hear Texas’ arguments against temporarily blocking abortion ban before ruling on Biden administration request
Instead of immediately acting on the request, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Pitman set an Oct. 1 hearing to consider arguments before ruling. The law will have been in effect for one month by that time. Full Story
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TribCast: A preview of redistricting in the Texas Legislature
In this week’s episode, Matthew speaks with Ross, Alexa and James about the coming legislative session and legal fights over redistricting in Texas. Full Story
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Justice Department asks federal judge to block enforcement of Texas abortion law
The late-night request came less than a week after the Biden administration sued Texas to try to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which bans the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. Full Story
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![Kristina Ysquierdo during a march against the abortion ban in Downtown Houston on Sept. 5, 2021.]()
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Texas’ abortion ban prompts push in Congress to pass federal reproductive rights bill, while renewing filibuster feud
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the House will take up the Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 in late September, but the bill faces steep odds in the Senate. Full Story
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More than 100,000 Texas electricity customers without power after Nicholas. Restoring it to everyone could take days.
Texas was spared from mass destruction once the storm came ashore as a Category 1 hurricane. But it caused enough damage to disrupt electricity for a large swath of the Texas coast, including the Houston and Galveston areas. Full Story
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![Storm surge ahead of Tropical Storm Nicholas in Corpus Christi on Sept. 13, 2021. A storm surge warning is in effect in Corpus Christi for the next couple of days.]()
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Special election runoff between John Wray and Brian Harrison for state House district in North Texas set for Sept. 28
The two Republicans are vying to replace former state Rep. Jake Ellzey, who is now in Congress. Full Story
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A Texas school district doesn’t require masks. The state is suing the district anyway.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued nine more school districts over their masking rules. One says it doesn’t mandate them. Another says it doesn’t enforce mask-wearing at Paxton’s request. Full Story
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![Students backpacks sit in their cubbies at Blanco Vista Elementary School in San Marcos on Aug. 23, 2021.]()
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Texas foster care children exposed to sexual abuse, given wrong medication and neglected in unlicensed placements, new report says
The federal judge overseeing the decadelong lawsuit against Texas for conditions in its foster care system cut this week’s hearing short. She proposed all parties involved, including the governor, “cut to the chase” to identify solutions. Full Story
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![Heart Galleries, portraits of adoptable children, on display at the Child Protective Services office at the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services in Austin on Nov. 14, 2019.]()
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Texas sees limited damage in wake of Tropical Storm Nicholas as storm weakens and takes aim at Louisiana
“I think we fared well,” said one official in Matagorda County, where Nicholas made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Tuesday morning. Full Story
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UTSA stopped displaying “Come and take it” flag at football games and now faces criticism from its Board of Regents
UTSA decided to end the six-year tradition because the phrase had become “incongruent” with the university’s values and it did not want to become embroiled in a divisive issue. Full Story
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After a Texas prosecutor dismissed dozens of migrant trespassing cases, some men were dropped at a border bus station
Officials said immigration authorities weren’t interested in taking migrants who had no criminal conviction into federal custody. But without documentation, at least one newly released migrant soon found himself back in detention. Full Story
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![A Texas Department of Public Safety official makes an arrest near the U.S. and Mexico border in Del Rio as a group of migrants watched on July 23, 2021.]()
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Nearly 2 million people in Texas are overdue for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine
More than 11% of those who received their first dose haven’t gotten a second shot, and more than 1 million people are more than 90 days overdue. Full Story
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5 candidates file for special election in San Antonio to replace former state Rep. Leo Pacheco
The field for the Sept. 28 contest has attracted three Democrats and two Republicans. Full Story
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Texas bill to require cash bail for those accused of violent crimes becomes law
Senate Bill 6 will bar those accused of violent crimes from being released from jail before trial unless they can put up cash. That provision of the bill will go into effect Dec. 2. Full Story
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Analysis: Texas and the U.S., lawyered up and ready to go to court
It's usually the state suing the feds, but now the federal government is suing Texas for outlawing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. There are more lawsuits between the state and federal governments to come. Full Story
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The delta variant is wreaking havoc on most of Texas — but not El Paso. Here’s why.
High vaccination rates, geography and a sense of community in the wake of 2019’s Walmart shootings help keep El Paso’s delta numbers low, experts and locals say. Full Story
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![Angel Castro, 16, received his first shot of the Pfizer vaccine at William D. Slider Middle School in El Paso on July 22, 2021. The Socorro Independent School District, in partnership with the city of El Paso, provided COVID-19 vaccinations for people 12 years and older.]()
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Texas sues six school districts that issued mask mandates in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s order
Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have long threatened to sue school districts that defy Abbott’s ban on local mask mandates. On Friday, Paxton made good on that threat. Full Story
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![A student's school supplies on the first day of in-person classes in Texas on Sept. 8, 2020.]()
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