Texas laws allow teachers to carry guns at school with little regulation
While some victims' families and survivors fight for gun control, others across the state are choosing to fortify schools by arming their children's teachers.
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While some victims' families and survivors fight for gun control, others across the state are choosing to fortify schools by arming their children's teachers.
Stephen Barbee received a lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined an appeal from his lawyers.
One Philadelphia City Council member called the sick 10-year-old's transport "one of the more inhumane aspects" of the Texas governor's policy.
The heartfelt message comes just days after the third member of the Migos trio, Quavo, shared a lengthy statement.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District announced Friday that it has suspended its entire police department, more than four months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary took the lives of 19 children and two teachers. Zach Despart, a politics reporter for The Texas Tribune, discussed the situation with Catherine Herridge.
New York City has declared a state of emergency due to the spike in migrant arrivals to the city. There are currently more than 61,000 people in its shelter system, a city record. It comes as asylum seekers are bused from the U.S.-Mexico border. Yaritza Mendez with the "Make the Road New York" organization, joined CBS News to discuss the crisis.
Officials in El Paso, Texas, said they are stopping migrant transportation programs after a new Homeland Security policy drastically reduced the number of arrivals. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez explains the reasoning behind the change and how it will impact asylum seekers.
All inbound flights were temporarily held at their departure airports, the FAA said.
A Texas grand jury has indicted a husband accused of slipping an abortion-inducing drug into his wife's drinks in hopes that it would end her pregnancy.
A federal judge in Texas blocked President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman ruled the Department of Education violated federal law.
In a statement to the court, the victim's mother addressed Parker as an "evil piece of flesh demon."
Republican Monica De La Cruz made history in Texas on Election Day. She is the first Hispanic woman projected to win a House seat in the state's 15th District. De La Cruz also flipped the typically solid blue seat to red. She joined CBS News to discuss her historic victory and her agenda in Congress.
Although he faced a tight race in the summer and early fall, recent polls showed Abbott opening up a double-digit lead.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott will win reelection over Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke, CBS News projects. Uvalde, Texas, the site of an elementary school shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead, voted overwhelmingly for Abbott.
Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores is running against democratic Congressman Vicente Gonzalez in Texas' 34th congressional district race. It's one of numerous of races across the country both sides are watching in the battle to control the U.S. House. Congresswoman Flores joined the stream with more on the issues that matter to her constituents, including border security along the U.S.-Mexico border.
President Biden spoke Tuesday night from the White House after a gunman opened fire at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 18 children and one adult. The president said of America's gun violence, "I'm sick and tired of it. It's just sick." Watch his full remarks in this CBS News Special Report.
Investigators in Uvalde, Texas provided an update on how the shooting at Robb Elementary School unfolded as questions are being raised about the police response. Watch the full briefing in this CBS News Special Report anchored by Tony Dokoupil.
The director of the Texas Department of Public Safety acknowledged a delay in officers breaching the classrooms at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde where a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers, calling it the "wrong decision." Inside, children were calling 911 to plead for help. Watch his briefing in this CBS News Special Report anchored by Margaret Brennan.
"I've never been so terrified," one Texas resident said.
O'Rouke has been driving throughout the state, trying to build a coalition similar to the one he had in 2018, when he narrowly lost to Ted Cruz. But this is 2022.
Photos and videos posted to social media showed leveled homes and fields of debris.
As the cotton harvest season gets underway across Texas, climate change is threatening the $7 billion industry. Janet Shamlian takes a look at how a bad harvest can ripple through the economy.
Extreme drought and a sustained summer heatwave taking an unprecedented toll on Texas' cotton crop.
In 911 calls, frantic students and teachers describe the calls for help inside Robb Elementary School during the shooting massacre in May. Omar Villafranca shows us the new chilling and heartbreaking details we are learning from the chilling audio, obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica.
Police dispatch recordings are shining more light on the police response to the deadly school shooting last May in Uvalde, Texas. CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca joins us from Uvalde to explain the changes members of the community are asking for now.