Manchin meets with Moody, Texas Dems on federal voting rights
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a key vote in the effort to pass federal voting rights legislation, on Thursday said he and a group of…
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Beto O’Rourke raises $500k to help pay for Texas Dems in DC
WASHINGTON, DC — As Texas House Democrats settle in for a potentially weekslong stay in the nation’s capital, one question is becoming…
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El Paso’s Moody stripped of speaker pro tem title due to Texas House Dems walkout
AUSTIN, Texas — El Paso Democrat Joe Moody was stripped of his position as speaker pro tem of the Texas House on Thursday in the first…
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With moratorium set to expire, are evictions in Texas about to increase?
DALLAS, Texas — A federal freeze on most evictions that was enacted last year is scheduled to expire July 31, after the Biden administration…
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Texas Dems in DC push Congress to pass federal voting law
WASHINGTON, DC — Democratic state lawmakers from Texas said Wednesday that they are on Capitol Hill to drum up support for federal voting rights…
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Cornyn, Cruz speak out amid order coming on border health limits
WASHINGTON, DC — Republican U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz of Texas joined a group of several of other GOP senators on Wednesday in blasting…
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Woman accused of aiding in Vanessa Guillen’s death indicted by grand jury
FORT HOOD, Texas — A woman accused of helping Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s suspected killer dismember and dispose of Guillen’s body last…
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El Paso’s Blanco among 9 no-shows as Texas Senate passes voting restrictions bill
AUSTIN, Texas — As Democrats fled the state to avoid voting on a GOP priority elections bill that would restrict voting rights in the state, the…
Continue Reading Feds arrest 5 family members from Texas in new US Capitol riot case
By Hannah Rabinowitz Five members of a Texas family were arrested on Tuesday for entering the US Capitol together during the January 6 insurrection.…
Continue Reading Biden declares GOP voting restrictions in Texas, other states to be ‘un-American’
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Joe Biden declared that preserving voting rights is “a test of our time” Tuesday as Texas Democrats took…
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Migrant’s body found along border in Hudspeth County
HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas — A body believed to be that of a migrant has been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in Hudspeth County desert area,…
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Texas House GOP votes to track down absent Dems, arrest them
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House voted Tuesday morning to send law enforcement to track down Democrats who left the state a day earlier in protest of…
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Lawsuit targets Texas law using citizens to enforce abortion ban
AUSTIN, Texas — Abortion rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block a new Texas law empowering individuals to sue anyone…
Continue Reading Hear why some Texas lawmakers are vowing to stay out of their state until August 7
Texas state House Democrats left the state in an effort to block Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law in the remaining 27 days of…
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Texas Dems fly out of state to halt GOP vote bill in Legislature
AUSTIN, Texas — Democrats in the Texas Legislature on Monday afternoon bolted for Washington, D.C., and said they were ready to remain there for…
Continue Reading Texas sheriff’s office releases video showing in-custody death of Marvin Scott III
By Deanna Hackney and Amir Vera, CNN The Collin County Sheriff’s office in Texas has released 41 minutes of jail security video showing the…
Continue Reading Blue Origin gets FAA ok to fly humans to space from Van Horn
WASHINGTON, DC — Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is now ready to send humans to the edge of space as the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday expanded…
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Iowa troopers going to patrol border at ‘no cost to Texas’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Agreements released Monday show Iowa is donating the use of state troopers and their equipment at “no cost to Texas” to fight…
Continue Reading Trump wins the CPAC straw poll in Texas as attendees clamor for him to run again
DALLAS, Texas — Former President Donald Trump bathed in the adulation of an adoring crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference…
Continue Reading Texas man who waited ‘over six hours’ last Super Tuesday to vote now faces illegal voting charges
By Ed Lavandera, Chris Boyette and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN A Texas man who told CNN he waited for “a lit bit over six hours” at a…
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Beto among hundreds of Texans who lined up at state Capitol to testify on voting bill
AUSTIN, Texas — Former El Paso Congressman Beto O’Rourke was among hundreds of Texans who lined up at the state Capitol on Saturday for their first…
Continue Reading Trump’s false election claims persist at conservative gathering in Texas
By Maeve Reston and Sara Murray, CNN As Texas’ battle over voting rights continues to unfold during the special session in Austin, the outrage…
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Gunman opens fire on couple at Downtown Aquarium in Houston
A man open fired at a couple, killing the man and injuring the woman, at the Downtown Aquarium in Houston. Houston Police Executive Chief Matt…
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Race to space: Billionaires ready for Borderland blastoffs
SPACEPORT AMERICA, New Mexico — Two billionaires are putting everything on the line this month to ride their own rockets into space from the…
Continue Reading More rain ahead for Texas as cleanup begins after flooding emergency hits Gulf Coast
By Allison Chinchar, CNN Meteorologist While Tropical Storm Elsa was dumping heavy rain on Florida on Wednesday, Texas was dealing with its own…
Continue Reading The beginning of the end for Big Oil
Opinion by Rabah Arezki and Per Magnus Nysveen for CNN Business Perspectives After a pandemic and a price war sent petroleum prices tumbling in 2020,…
Continue Reading Texas Republicans set to resume push for voting restrictions as special legislative session begins
By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Republicans are set to mount another push for restrictive new voting laws in their state as lawmakers on Thursday begin a…
Continue Reading Federal judge largely faults Air Force for 2017 Texas church shooting
By Ashley Killough and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the negligence of the United States government was mostly responsible…
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Texas Amber Alert issued for abducted 2-year-old boy
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A statewide Amber Alert was issued Wednesday asking for the public’s help in locating a 2-year-old Texas boy who is…
Continue Reading FAA will look into American Airlines flight delayed by mask mandate noncompliance
By Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN Federal officials say they will look into a group of 30 “disruptive” high schoolers who American…
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