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John Cornyn’s disapproval among Texas voters worsened dramatically as he negotiated a bipartisan gun bill, new poll shows

The Republican U.S. senator shepherded landmark gun legislation through the Senate last month. Between April and June, his disapproval rating went from 39% to 50%, according to a Texas Politics Project poll.

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How to get birth control and emergency contraception in Texas

Contraception options are available through most health insurance plans and government-funded clinics.

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Since 2005, Texas has lost more newspaper journalists per capita than all but two other states

Of Texas’ 254 counties, 27 no longer have a newspaper. Loss of local news coverage has been associated with higher levels of mistrust, misinformation and malfeasance. Only California and New Jersey have lost more newspaper journalists, relative to population.

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Local efforts to decriminalize abortion in Texas likely won’t help clinics stay open

District attorneys and local leaders in five counties have promised not to pursue criminal charges related to the state’s new abortion laws. But civil and administrative fines could be financially devastating or cost health care providers their licenses.

The Texas Tribune

Desegregating schools requires more than giving parents free choices – a scholar studies the choices parents of all races make

Chantal Hailey is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts.Her work focuses on the role of race and racism in how people choose schools and the other spaces they inhabit, and how racism influences inequality. Below are highlights from an interview…

The Conversation

Journalism's hostage relationship with Twitter

Journalists are some of the most active users of Twitter. But steps to make it a platform for unregulated speech threatens to turn a tool into a tribulation.

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Journalism's hostage relationship with Twitter

Journalists are some of the most active users of Twitter. But steps to make it a platform for unregulated speech threatens to turn a tool into a tribulation.

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Murder charges dropped in Texas abortion

Lizelle Herrera was arrested and held in jail on a $500,000 bond until prosecutors reviewed "applicable Texas law"

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Escaping an abortion desert isn’t as simple as crossing state lines

As states like Texas and Oklahoma restrict abortion access ahead of a pivotal Supreme Court decision, Americans are being forced to travel farther from home to access care. But leaving town to escape restrictive laws is neither an easy solution nor an equitable one.

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Texas' drought is the worst in years. Is the state on the brink of widespread disaster?

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas is in the worst drought conditions since 2011, when 95% of the state was in drought. Eleven years ago, parched conditions caused more than $7 billion in crop and livestock losses, sparked wildfires, pushed power grids to the limit and reduced reservoirs to dangerously low…

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Armies of ‘crazy’ acid-spewing red ants taking over Texas homes may soon be wiped out by killer fungus

In some places, scientists say nearly two-thirds of the ant population has disappeared entirely

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Helen Sung keys in on pioneering women jazz composers with her new 'Quartet+' album and tour

How many female role models did Helen Sung have when she began her transition into jazz at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in classical piano performance in 1993 and 1995, respectively?

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More Texans continuing to seek abortions out of state after Senate Bill 8, latest statistics confirm

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin say their findings indicate that about 1,400 Texans are getting abortions each month at facilities outside the state after the implementation of Senate Bill 8, the nation’s most restrictive abortion law.

Tribune News Service

UT Austin Hiring Full-Time Clinical Professor for Law and Religion Clinic

I am happy to pass along this hiring notice from the University of Texas at Austin's Law & Religion Clinic: Description UT School of Law seeks to hire a full-time clinical professor to teach in its Law and Religion Clinic. The Clinic's principal focus is working on a variety of…

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