Texas

All but one of the 30 of the Major League Baseball teams are hosting events which celebrate and support LGBTQ+ culture and rights

Challenging a policy that prioritizes the deportation of migrants who are deemed to pose the greatest risk to public safety, Louisiana and Texas argued that federal immigration law requires authorities to detain and deport even those who pose little or no risk

Hurd served three terms in the House through January 2021, becoming the chamber’s only Black Republican during his final two years in office. He is also a former CIA agent who worked in Pakistan

Communities from Houston to New Orleans are opening cooling centers to bring relief as steamy hot temperatures settle across a broad swath of the U.S. South

About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the migrants were sent to Los Angeles because California had declared itself a “sanctuary” for immigrants

Humanitarian groups in Laredo, Texas, say they had recently warned U.S. Customs and Border Protection that certain groups were controlling access to the international crossing on the Mexican side

Numerous companies that openly support LGBTQ+ groups have been subjected to boycotts, in a conservative offensive against inclusivity and sustainability

The indictment of real estate developer Nate Paul on Friday is the result of a yearslong FBI investigation that Paxton became entangled in three years ago

Attorney Tony Buzbee on Wednesday decried the GOP-led state House of Representatives’ overwhelming vote last month to impeach Paxton as a sham equivalent to a “drive-by shooting on a holiday weekend”

Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday he’s deploying 100 National Guard soldiers. At least eight Republican-led states have made similar deployments in the weeks since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appealed for help at the border

Her entry into prison comes more than a year after a jury convicted Holmes on four felony counts of fraud and conspiracy in January 2022

The GOP-led House of Representatives on Saturday approved 20 articles of impeachment on sweeping allegations of wrongdoing that have trailed the state’s top lawyer for years, including abuse of office and bribery

The historic vote came after a monthslong House investigation into the three-term attorney general that resulted in 20 charges alleging sweeping abuses of power, including obstruction of justice, bribery and abuse of public trust

The House has set a Saturday vote to consider impeaching Paxton and suspending him from office over allegations of bribery, unfitness for office and abuse of public trust

The move sets up what could be a remarkably sudden downfall for one of the GOP’s most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory

The president said from a solemn White House memorial that too many schools, too many everyday places have become ‘killing fields’

The Tuesday lawsuit is the latest legal attack against the administration’s plan to manage migration in the aftermath of the end of Title 42

Pain and anger persist among the victims’ families, many of whom are still pursuing justice. Some survivors are looking for different paths

The families of the victims want to raise the age to buy semi-automatic rifles, such as the AR-15 used in the shooting, but the measure has been stalled by Republican lawmakers. Meanwhile, teachers say schoolchildren no longer go to the bathroom alone

More than a dozen women have joined the Center for Reproductive Rights’ lawsuit against the Texas’ law, which prohibit abortions unless a mother’s life is at risk — an exception that is not clearly defined

Wednesday marks one year since the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, when a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School

Gun control supporters say other cases have created roadmaps for victims and relatives to sue. But high hurdles remain for lawsuits to succeed

Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez died Wednesday after falling ill at a border station in Harlingen, Texas. It was the second child migrant death in U.S. government custody in two weeks.

Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors

The little girl from Panama had heart problems and was being held with her family in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for migrant crossings

In the most recent turn of events in the migratory crisis, the lifting of the controversial norm — decreed during the Trump administration — has filled the cities of Ciudad Juárez and El Paso with thousands of people. They have terrible tales to tell. Here are a few of them