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Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. June 10, 2024. Editorial: Texas’ high court loses a chance to clarify abortion law and help save lives The Texas Supreme Court had a chance to offer compassion and much-needed clarity on the state’s punitive abortion laws ...
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. June 24, 2024. Editorial: Trump’s pledge to deport millions of immigrants would devastate Texas businesses Texans depend on immigrant workers, including those who are here illegally. Donald Trump’s promise of mass deportations might...
Texas sheriff says 7 suspects arrested, 11 migrants hospitalized after sting near San Antonio
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Eleven people were hospitalized and seven smuggling suspects were arrested Thursday after authorities found more than two dozen migrants who had been driven from the border packed in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat. ...
Hundreds of asylum-seekers are camped out near Seattle. There's a vacant motel next door
KENT, Wash. (AP) — Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife and ate from a clear plastic tray of Girl Scout cookies melting in the midday sun. He was one of around 240 asylum-seekers camping in a grassy lot along a highway south...
Prosecutor asks Texas court to reverse governor's pardon of man who fatally shot demonstrator
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas governor's pardon of a former Army sergeant who fatally shot a Black Lives Matter demonstrator undermines the state's legal system and constitution and should be reversed, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Travis County District Attorney José Garza said he...
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. May 27, 2024. Editorial: Texas schools are hurting financially. Abbott should call a special session Abbott denies a special session to address Texas’ school district funding crisis and ties relief to passing school vouchers. That’s not...
Texas Democrat who joined GOP in supporting ban on gender-affirming care for minors loses primary
A Texas Democratic lawmaker who broke with her party by supporting a ban on gender-affirming care for minors was ousted in a primary runoff that galvanized LGBTQ+ groups nationwide who then campaigned for her opponent in the race for the south Houston seat. Rep. Shawn Thierry's...
US Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas fights off challenge from gun-rights activist in GOP runoff
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas narrowly won his primary Tuesday against a gun-rights activist who pushed the border congressman into a bruising runoff that threatened to unseat a U.S. House incumbent. Another prominent Texas Republican, state House...
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Austin American-Statesman. May 21, 2024. Editorial: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry and shifted the rule of law There was no rogue DA or ‘woke’ politics. The legal system played out as it should in Travis County. Then Greg Abbott overturned the...
At least 15 dead after severe weather carves path of ruin across multiple states in the South
VALLEY VIEW, Texas (AP) — Powerful storms killed at least 15 people, injured hundreds and left a wide trail of destruction Sunday across Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas after obliterating homes and destroying a truck stop where dozens sought shelter in a restroom during the latest deadly weather to...
