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Faculty petition to hold no-confidence vote in UT-Austin president after protest response

President Jay Hartzell defended the response but faculty criticized the presence of armed state troopers. Fifty-seven people were arrested.

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This East Texas town hasn’t held a city council election in at least 18 years

In Kennard, City Council members have been appointed after previous members retired or died.

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Is the ocelot, the endangered South Texas wildcat, making a comeback?

Conservation groups found a sign of hope, but scientists say it's too soon to celebrate.

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Twice as many Texan likely voters approve of Gov. Abbott's handling of the border compared to Biden's

Over half of respondents of a poll by the Hispanic Policy Foundation approved of Abbott, compared to 24% who had a positive view of Biden's approach

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Gov. Greg Abbott suggests he wants to bar transgender teachers from dressing in line with their gender identity

Abbott made the remarks as he recounted the story of a male teacher in North Texas who wore a pink dress for his school’s spirit day earlier this year.

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Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators on UT-Austin campus amid tense standoff

Gov. Greg Abbott expressed support for the arrests, which come amid tensions on college campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war.

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Gov. Greg Abbott endorses U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales amid primary runoff attacks that he’s a RINO

Gonzales, 43, faces Brandon Herrera in the May primary runoff election for South Texas District 23.

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What you need to know about Texas’ school safety policies

Texas lawmakers have mandated armed guards at every public school, panic buttons in classrooms and more staff training.

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GOPer: I serve with "scumbags," klansmen

Tony Gonzales claimed Matt Gaetz "paid minors to have sex with them at drunk parties"

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Texas politics leave transgender foster youth isolated — during and after life in state care

Support once afforded LGBTQ+ foster kids has vanished and a culture of silence has blanketed the agency tasked with raising children growing up in the system.

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Texas has seen a decrease in migrant encounters; is its anti-immigration effort working?

Operation Lone Star was launched in 2021 to counter border crossings. Are their efforts working now? The answer is complicated.

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Migrant apprehensions are down at the Texas border. Have state policies had an impact?

Abbott has credited his Operation Lone Star for a recent drop in migrant encounters on the Texas-Mexico border.

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Layoffs and upheaval at Texas universities spur fear as lawmakers continue DEI crackdown

As administrators scramble to comply with new limits on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, students and faculty worry more tumult is coming.

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Texas families could lose at-home nursing under stricter Medicaid rule

Some children who receive private duty nursing, a more continuous type of medical care in their homes, could lose their ability to live at home if an HHSC rule change goes into effect.

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South Texas farmers are in peril as the Rio Grande Valley runs dry — again

With the hottest days still ahead, local leaders have declared emergencies. And farmers are lobbying for the U.S. government to pressure Mexico to release water.

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Proposed changes to state Medicaid plans could shake up health coverage for 1.8 million low-income Texans

The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two decades by nonprofit children’s hospitals.

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Texas criminal appeals court removes Tomas Gallo from death row because of his intellectual disability

The court re-sentenced Gallo to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.

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State district judge recommends overturning Melissa Lucio’s death sentence

In a rare joint statement, the district attorney and the defense agreed that prosecutors withheld evidence that could point to a Rio Grande Valley woman’s innocence in the death of her toddler.

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Colin Allred’s fundraising for U.S. Senate race surpasses O’Rourke’s early 2018 pace

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred raised over $9.5 million for his U.S. Senate campaign this quarter, surpassing Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 first quarter sum of $6.7 million.

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A South Texas candidate sues his town for records he says will prove his opponent's corruption

Rio Grande City officials called Ediel Barrera’s requests “vague or ambiguous.”

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Far-right activist Jonathan Stickland starts new group, months after white supremacist scandal

The former lawmaker registered “RaTmasTeR Holdings” along with Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi. The name is a nod to Stickland’s alias as an infamous internet troll.

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Water scarcity and clean energy collide in South Texas

A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.

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Texas psychologists’ board pushes back on costly new national licensing exam, considers crafting a cheaper state test

Faced with a nagging mental health provider shortage, the state psychologists’ licensing board is looking into whether the state should devise its own exam to get professionals licensed more quickly.

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After Texas’ largest wildfire is contained, a rancher moves on with a single calf

In testimony to state lawmakers, Dale Jenkins and his Panhandle peers shared the “hidden cost” of the wildfires.

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Amid fears of arsenic in private water wells, Texas A&M is offering low-cost tests in Ector and Midland counties

Officials are worried that there’s arsenic in some of the estimated 13,500 private water wells in Ector and Midland counties.

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