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The Latest Breaking News from Texas

NFL draft analyst sees these two players as best Patriots fits

Drafting these two players would be a major surprise from the Patriots.

USA Today Sports Media Group

US supreme court temporarily blocks ruling limiting abortion pill access

Samuel Alito imposes five-day stay after ruling by Texas federal judge that would have imposed restrictions on mifepristone

The Guardian - US

Texas' Foster Care System Is Grossly Mismanaged

"These things are just so inexcusable," a judge said. "It's hard to understand."

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TribCast: A major Texas abortion case and a potential Gov. Greg Abbott pardon in a murder trial

In this week’s episode, we discuss an attempt to use the courts in Texas to restrict the use of an abortion drug and Gov. Greg Abbott’s potential pardon of an Army sergeant found guilty of murdering a protester in Austin.

The Texas Tribune

Texas House panel advances bills banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender kids

Under the legislation, minors currently receiving certain gender-affirming care would have to taper off their treatments. A majority of Texas lawmakers in each chamber has supported previous versions of the legislation.

The Texas Tribune

Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning

An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate.

The Conversation

Biden to nominate Texas judge to be first Latina on federal appeals court

Both of Texas’ Republican senators voice support for Irma Carrillo Ramirez’s nomination to the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Texas Tribune

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Racist messages by Army sergeant who killed BLM protester revealed as Texas governor looks to pardon him

‘It is official, I am a racist because I do not agree with people acting like animals at the zoo,’ Daniel Perry wrote in a post less than two months before killing Garrett Foster

The Independent UK

Unsealed evidence shows racist comments, threats of violence made by Daniel Perry before killing of Austin protester

Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants to pardon Perry, who was convicted by a Travis County jury last week.

The Texas Tribune

Friday Night Notes: Florida lands 5-star DB, Malik Blocton names his top 10 schools and more

The most significant recruitment of the week happened Thursday, when the Florida Gators got a commitment from one of the top safeties in Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

WATCH: Skyy Moore elevates to catch pass from Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes

It didn't take long for clips to emerge of #Chiefs WR Skyy Moore training with Patrick Mahomes in Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Huge Texas explosion that burned 18,000 cows to death was ignited by their FARTS

South Fork Dairy farm in Texas suffered the deadliest cattle fire ever in US history on Monday after 18,000 cows worth $36million (£28million) were killed in a horrific blaze

Daily Mirror

Urgent calls for barn fire codes after 18,000 cows killed in Texas explosion

Largest-known incident of cattle deaths in US history took place in Dimmitt, Texas on Monday

The Independent UK

‘Family policing system’: how the US criminalizes Black parenting

A Texas newborn’s recent removal from home illustrates the cruel treatment Black families face for their childcare decisions

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Roll Call

Supreme Court halts abortion drug case through Wednesday - Roll Call

The ruling comes after a federal judge in Texas suspended the FDA's 2000 approval of mifespristone, a drug used for medication abortions.

The Texas Tribune

The eyes of LGBTQ Texans are upon Dade Phelan and the House

Spurred by a groundswell of far-right support, the Texas Senate has passed all of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s priority LGBTQ bills — and then some. What the House does next will impact queer Texans’ lives and could determine Speaker Phelan’s future.

Tribune News Service

Dallas music once rivaled Nashville. North Texas record label wants it back on the map

FORT WORTH, Texas — In the 1950s, Dallas was on its way to becoming a country music hub that could rival Nashville, Tennessee, but the death of recording engineer Jim Beck in 1956 brought that idea to an end. Decades later, State Fair Records — a Dallas-based record label with…

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Here's what really happened during the abortion drug's approval 23 years ago

A Texas judge ruled that the Food and Drug Administration wrongly approved mifepristone in 2000 and accused it of doing a rush job. Here's what really went down.

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Tribune News Service

Fight over tenure has Texas professors fearing loss of academic freedom, job security

After 11 years working as a college professor, Yasmiyn Irizarry reached a goal she dreamt about from the very beginning of her career: tenure.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Abortion pill ruling means more painful, later terminations

The conservative 5th Circuit has blocked part of a Texas judge’s decision to pull abortion drug mifepristone off the market, but leaves in place onerous and outdated restrictions that the Food and Drug Administration determined in 2016 were medically unnecessary.

Evening Standard

18,000 cows killed in Texas dairy farm explosion

The blaze has prompted calls for federal laws to prevent barn fires which kill hundreds of thousands of farm animals each year

France 24

'Horrific' explosion and fire kill 18,000 cows at Texas dairy farm

A "horrific" explosion and fire at a dairy farm in the southern US state of Texas killed about 18,000 head of cattle and injured one agricultural worker, authorities said on Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Man sentenced to 70 years in Texas prison for spitting on officers during arrest

A Black man was sentenced to 70 years in prison for spitting on officers during an arrest in Texas.

The Independent UK

Texas county roiled by book ban considered closing libraries

Leaders in a rural Texas county held a special meeting Thursday to consider the drastic option of shutting their public library system down rather than heed a federal judge’s order to return books to the shelves ranging from teen sexuality and gender to bigotry and race

Tribune News Service

Bill requiring Texas schools to tell parents what books kids check out passes

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Senate passed a proposal Thursday that would require schools to inform parents of all books their children check out of campus libraries.

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