Federal judge says Waller County voting process did not discriminate against Black college students

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U.S. Supreme Court tells Texas to let a condemned man’s pastor touch him and pray aloud during execution

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Ted Cruz interjects GOP’s “critical race theory” opposition into Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court nomination

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Texas once again temporarily blocked from investigating gender-affirming care as child abuse

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Texas child welfare official resigns, saying top agency leaders scapegoated employees

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Ferguson man gets 120 days in jail, shock time, in shooting death of 3-year-old son

CLAYTON — A Ferguson man was sentenced Friday to five years probation that includes 120 days…

Jury awards UT-Austin professor $3 million in pregnancy and sex discrimination suit against university

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Trump appointees are helping Texas derail Biden’s immigration agenda

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Ken Paxton, lawyers for parents of trans kids disagree on whether child abuse investigations can continue

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State-licensed shelter where sex trafficking victims were reportedly abused ordered to close

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