The Latest Breaking News from Greg Abbott

Texas alone has suffered 17 mass shootings this year and now lawmakers propose ‘battlefield trauma care’ facilities in schools

Shandra Hodge speaks out about her son’s death at the hands of state troopers in 2019.

Petroleum industry supports tax breaks for renewable energy projects but legislators refuse.

The most ambitious proposals are all but dead, leaving teachers wondering why they’re looking at small raises when the state has a historic budget surplus at its disposal.

Texas still lags nationally when it comes to mental health services and there have been seven mass shootings since Abbott took office in 2015.

Rare momentum in the Texas Capitol for a tougher gun law has flickered out, days after a mass shooting near Dallas left eight people dead

US Army Sergeant Daniel Perry has been sentenced for fatally shooting Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster, 28, an Air Force veteran in July 2020

Perry’s case has become an explosive political stew of arguments over gun rights, self-defense and racist social media posts. The governor dived in early, saying he would pardon Perry even before a judge handed down the sentence.

An active shooter attacked an outlet mall near Dallas on Saturday afternoon, killing eight before being shot dead himself by an Allen cop. The following morning, 570 miles south, a car plowed into a group of migrants waiting at a bus stop, killing eight more. Then, eight hours later, a…