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Attorney General Ken Paxton requests new execution date for Robert Roberson
A judge could set a new execution date for no sooner than 90 days from now, though Roberson has a pending appeal.
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Texas again lowers restrictions on certain firearms, passes on regulations
Lawmakers passed a handful of bills aimed at easing access to guns as a new pediatric study links state legislation to increased firearm deaths.
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Bills to protect Texas’ water supply died as state legislature bogged down in culture war debates
At least nine significant water-protection bills died because lawmakers couldn’t get to them, the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance said.
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Some Texans fear a looming THC ban could return them to opioids, illegal options
Texas hemp users stockpile products and consider moving out of state as ban looms, saying the medical marijuana program is currently an untenable alternative.
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Texas quietly shuts down its border wall program after building just 8%
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.
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Experts worry about natural disaster readiness as Trump’s phase-out of FEMA moves ahead
Trump said he’ll start dismantling the Federal Emergency Management Agency this year: ‘We want to bring it down to the state level.’
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Study: Texas’ coming wave of power plants to fuel data centers will surge greenhouse gas pollution
Companies plan to build more than 100 new gas-fired power plants to meet demand from data centers, AI and other energy-hungry industries.
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After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.
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Trans Texans brace for life under strict sex definition law
Texas has strictly defined man and woman, leaving trans Texans in legal limbo.
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Trump aides want Texas to redraw its congressional maps to boost the GOP. What would that mean?
The plan would shift voters from safely red districts into blue ones. Members of the state’s Republican delegation aren’t sold on the idea.
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Poll: More Texas GOP primary voters oppose Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s hemp ban than support it
Nearly half of Texas Republican primary voters think Patrick’s hemp ban is a bad idea, the survey showed.
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Texas bill restricting campus protests amounts to major free-speech violation, ACLU warns
The bill, expected to take effect Sept. 1, restricts how, where and when protests occur on public campuses.
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Texas’ GOP congressional delegation meets to discuss redrawing districts ahead of midterms
The proposal would require the Texas Legislature to return for a special session to carry out the rare move of reshaping the state’s political boundaries mid-decade.
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Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season
Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff.
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Months after detaining 47 people accused of being Tren de Aragua in Austin, authorities offer no evidence of gang ties
People at the raided house say they rented it for a birthday party and deny any connection to the gang. One man says law enforcement accused him of being in Tren de Aragua because of his tattoo.
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Bexar County DA Joe Gonzales says he won’t seek reelection
Although he handily won reelection in 2022, the Democrat has faced criticism for his office’s case backlog.
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Texas’ undocumented college students no longer qualify for in-state tuition
Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting its nearly 20,000 undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more.
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The Texas Legislative session is (finally) over. Here’s what passed and failed.
The Republican-controlled Lege passed 1,200 bills this session, and many focused on culture war issues.
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Texas Lege passes bill expanding state’s medical cannabis program after vote to ban hemp products
The bill, now on the governor’s desk, would allow prescription vape products and expand the program’s list of qualifying conditions.
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Texas Supreme Court gives initial win to Paxton in migrant shelter case
The high court did not rule on the merits of the case, but allows Paxton to continue his investigation of Annunciation House.
