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The region is still cleaning up after last week's storms in which at least six people died.| The Texas Tribune
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The program will officially launch at the start of the 2026-27 school year.| The Texas Tribune
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The administration has been testing a strategy of using the courts as leverage to force political outcomes. In Texas, the state’s leaders and conservative activists have been willing, if not eager, collaborators.| The Texas Tribune
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President Donald Trump said he thinks Republicans could flip a handful of congressional districts in Texas next year through “just a very simple redrawing."| The Texas Tribune
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The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.| The Texas Tribune
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The new district lines could be considered by the entire state House as soon as early next week.| The Texas Tribune
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Republicans accused Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of supporting gender transitions for children throughout the 2024 election cycle, which he said took a political toll.| The Texas Tribune
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School leaders have privately criticized a bill that would make it harder to contest their performance ratings in court. But they did not testify against it to avoid lawmakers’ ire.| The Texas Tribune
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The three-judge panel agreed with a lower court that Ken Paxton’s office can’t question officials from Catholic Charities under oath without first filing a lawsuit.| The Texas Tribune
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, continues to be blocked.| The Texas Tribune
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Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.| The Texas Tribune
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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship to take effect in certain states in 30 days.| The Texas Tribune
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The ruling was a partial victory for President Donald Trump who has made immigration his signature issue.| The Texas Tribune
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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.| The Texas Tribune
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The trial of the Peruvian woman was the first test of the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at prosecuting immigrants who crossed the border illegally with military-related charges.| The Texas Tribune
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The Department of Homeland Security said the 64 people who volunteered received $1,000 and a chance to return to the U.S. legally. Advocates question whether the government will honor its promises.| The Texas Tribune
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The agency did not offer details about the types of crimes or immigration violations the majority of the people were accused of.| The Texas Tribune
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It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.| The Texas Tribune
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The high court did not rule on the merits of the case, but allows Paxton to continue his investigation of Annunciation House.| The Texas Tribune
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Attorney General Ken Paxton has targeted similar organizations that aid migrants at the border. The lawsuit appears to be the first to focus on political speech and rules that govern nonprofits.| The Texas Tribune
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The vote comes amid a broader push by conservative Christians to infuse more religion into public schools and life.| The Texas Tribune
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We wanted to learn more about how to reach younger Texans through short-form video, how to build trust with folks who distrust the news and how to revamp our in-person engagement.| The Texas Tribune
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After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.| The Texas Tribune
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Del Rio Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.| The Texas Tribune
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A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills.| The Texas Tribune
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Federal grants paid for workers to help with measles testing and vaccination in Lubbock and were going to help equip a Dallas lab to test for pathogens, including measles.| The Texas Tribune
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The move infuriated Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful head of the Senate, who had called the ban among his top five bills over 17 years in the Legislature.| The Texas Tribune
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Proponents of SB 2880 have singled out Rep. Ken King, House State Affairs committee chair, for letting the bill languish.| The Texas Tribune
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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.| The Texas Tribune
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More than 120 people across nine counties have been infected during the largest Texas outbreak in 30 years.| The Texas Tribune
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Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more.| The Texas Tribune
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Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block the neediest children from access.| The Texas Tribune
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Not long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar energy. Now they’re bypassing the grid and building their own gas-fired power plants on site.| The Texas Tribune
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At least four companies say they are prepared to treat the water well enough to be released into rivers in West Texas. Environmental groups say the state is moving too fast.| The Texas Tribune
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House Bill 4 would make the test shorter and base scores on how students’ performance compares to national averages.| The Texas Tribune
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A letter sent this week claims the grant recipients, including many Texas cities and counties, may have illegally “induced” undocumented immigrants to enter the country.| The Texas Tribune
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A comptroller’s report found that deporting the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants living in Texas in 2005 would have cost the state about $17.7 billion in gross domestic product.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas is positioned better than any state to help Trump carry out his ambitious anti-immigration agenda. But it is also vulnerable to those policies’ impacts.| The Texas Tribune
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More than a year after Texas’ House Bill 8 took effect, some schools have offered free tuition, grown dual credit programs or helped students’ credits transfer when they move on to four-year schools.| The Texas Tribune
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On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.| The Texas Tribune
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A massive apartment building boom in the Austin-Round Rock region has driven rents downward, real estate experts and housing advocates have said.| The Texas Tribune
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The temporary injunction issued Monday would affect roughly 90,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in Texas.| The Texas Tribune
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Last year, Abbott refused to give public schools a major raise without passing a voucher program. His tone was more conciliatory after Election Day.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has accused Annunciation House, which operates a network of migrant shelters, of human smuggling.| The Texas Tribune
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The lost water costs the cities millions and heightens the state’s water supply challenges.| The Texas Tribune