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Texas summer camp owners brace for more mental health issues among youth

Mental health experts expect the July 4 floods have resulted in post-traumatic stress disorder, unhealthy hypervigilance and recurring thoughts on disasters among campers.

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Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group’s expansion in high schools

The meeting happened days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged $1 million to help establish chapters of the conservative student group on every Texas college and high school campus.

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They couldn’t save their daughters’ lives in the July 4 floods. Now they’re dealing with the grief and the guilt.

RJ and Annie Harber have leaned on faith, their community and each other to move through each day after losing their daughters and RJ’s parents. But memories of that night still haunt them.

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Head of Texas’ largest business organization accused of sexual assault in lawsuit

An unidentified woman on Monday sued Glenn Hamer, Texas Association of Business president and CEO, alleging he sexually harassed and assaulted her, then retaliated when she rejected his advances.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues a second state agency over rules he says discriminate on religious grounds

Paxton, who is running to unseat fellow Republican John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate, has vowed to strike down Texas laws that “undermine religious liberty.”

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Webb County judge disputes allegation that he violated federal law to dodge Texas’ resign-to-run rule

Tano Tijerina, the top elected official in a county that includes Laredo, is expected to seek the GOP nomination in Texas’ 28th Congressional District, long held by Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar.

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Speaker Johnson defends Crenshaw after he was reportedly banned from congressional overseas travel

Punchbowl News reported that the Houston congressman was banned from taxpayer-funded travel for 90 days after toasting a Mexican official who made an inappropriate joke.

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Proposed data center project for Waco area would be “paradigm-changer”

The project is at a scale of industrial development and investment unmatched in McLennan County’s history: acres of computer hardware, substations and a 1.2-gigawatt gas-fired plant capable of powering about 300,000 homes.

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Texas is getting far less in federal money for broadband expansion than expected

Rural leaders who have worked years to improve broadband access said they were disappointed by the sharp decrease in federal dollars.

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Gov. Greg Abbott, long a defender of states’ rights, embraces Trump’s push to expand presidential power

Defending Texas sovereignty has been central to Abbott’s political identity. Yet he has helped Trump erode states’ authority over elections, policing and deploying the National Guard.

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Faculty panel: Texas A&M wrongly fired professor after gender lesson

Texas A&M did not have good cause to fire a professor after a video of a gender lesson created a political storm, and the school failed to follow due process, a faculty appeal committee found.

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Supreme Court temporarily restores Texas’ new congressional map

The administrative ruling is a first step before the court decides whether to pause the use of the 2025 map, drawn to increase GOP seats in the U.S. House, for the rest of the legal battle.

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Abbott, Republican lawmakers’ comments cited in court order overturning Texas’ congressional gerrymander

Judge Jeffrey Brown pointed to comments from the governor and GOP legislators as the basis for his ruling that the new map can’t be used in 2026.

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Greg Abbott vows to spend mightily to turn Harris County red

The county, which includes Houston, is critical to both parties' statewide ambitions, but has been blue for about decade.

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Lawsuit halts Texas’ $3 billion dementia fund

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blasted a “frivolous” lawsuit attempting to block the dementia research fund approved by nearly 70% of Texas voters. Plaintiffs claim voting machines were faulty.

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A year after Donald Trump won the Rio Grande Valley, South Texans navigate changes big and small

Residents in the southernmost part of Texas want to remind themselves — and the nation — that the region is more than a political battleground. It’s their home.

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After blocking redistricting map, Judge Jeffrey Brown draws fire from Texas Republicans who once praised him

Until being labeled as the "radical left," Brown was widely supported by Texas Republicans, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who previously hired him as his clerk. Abbott called the ruling “clearly erroneous.”

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Texas Republicans started a national redistricting arms race. They may be losing.

With Texas’ new map blocked by a federal court, California Democrats are emerging victorious — though the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in.

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What’s next after a court blocked Texas’ gerrymandered maps

The state is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause the ruling, which would allow Texas to use the more recent map while the appeal plays out.

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A small Texas think tank cultivated COVID dissidents. Now they’re running U.S. health policy.

People with ties to Brownstone Institute have significant authority over access to vaccines and scientific research.

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Gov. Greg Abbott was ordered to release emails with Elon Musk. Most of the 1,400 pages are blacked out.

The heavily redacted emails reveal little of the two men’s relationship.

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Texas moves ahead with regulating hemp industry as federal ban looms

TABC intends to proceed with the adoption of permanent regulations on the hemp industry in Texas despite the potential ban.

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Court order striking down Texas redistricting map upends plans for candidates across the state

Republicans who were planning to run for newly gerrymandered districts may have to reassess, while Democrats who were drawn out of their seats could suddenly have a path back to Congress.

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Entire Texas congressional delegation votes to release Epstein files

Rep. Troy Nehls of Richmond was among House Republicans who had previously opposed releasing the files, but reversed their stances this week.

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