Redistricting, Transgender Athletes & COVID Mandates On Agenda Of Texas' 3rd Special Session
The Texas Legislature is back in Austin for its third special session of the year. Both houses gaveled in at 10:00 a.m.
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The Texas Legislature is back in Austin for its third special session of the year. Both houses gaveled in at 10:00 a.m.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is in Texas. The Secretary is reportedly receiving an 'operational briefing' on steps being taken to address the situation in Del Rio.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has sent a letter to President Joe Biden requesting an emergency declaration for the state as a result of the escalating crisis at the Texas-Mexico border.
Still reeling from a major earthquake in August and the assassination of their President in July, Haitian migrants in Texas say they will not be deterred by plans to send them back to their home country.
The Border Patrol's staffing problem has come into focus as thousands of Haitian migrants waited to surrender in the small Texas border city of Del Rio.
Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is warning that the Supreme Court's recent inaction on Texas' new abortion law could signal the end of judicial checks and balances on the issue.
The governor signed the bill into law in Fort Worth because of the effort Fort Worth police officers made in getting it passed.
He's a longtime ally of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, now Republican Matt Krause is joining the growing ranks of candidates who will challenge him for his job in 2022.
Instead, city officials are considering setting aside $200,000 that will go to organizations "that deliver programs and services related to reproductive healthcare."
The Department of Justice has filed an emergency order, asking a federal court to temporarily halt the new Texas law that bans most abortions in the state while it decides the case.
In the August 31 special election, Brian Harrison, received 4,645 votes and John Wray received 4,059 votes.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed nine more lawsuits against the following ISDs for defying Exec. Order 38: La Vega, McGregor, Midway, Waco, Diboll, Lufkin, Longview, Paris and Honey Grove.
Three recent former presidents are coming together to offer their support to a new organization that aims to assist Afghan evacuees who are resettling in the US.
Advocates are asking how Texas will 'eliminate all rapists from the streets' when it has more than 5,000 rape kits still untested, languishing on shelves around the state.
At the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush hosted a screening of a new documentary by Apple and the BBC called 9/11: Inside the President's War Room.
