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• Former state lawmaker Tommy Williams named interim president of Texas A&M

  By Nicholas Gutteridge Updated: Oct. 3, 2025

  Williams replaces former president Mark A. Welsh III, who resigned amid the fallout over a viral video showing an A&M student confronting a professor over a gender-identity discussion. Full Story 

• Texas health agency adopts emergency rule banning consumable hemp sales to anyone under 21

  By Paul Cobler and Stephen Simpson Updated: Oct. 3, 2025

  Two state agencies have now adopted the temporary rule while they work to adopt formal rules to limit who can buy THC products. Full Story 

• Trump administration to offer undocumented minors $2,500 to voluntarily return home

  By Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press Oct. 3, 2025

  The administration said an immigration judge must sign off first and the payment would be sent only after immigrants are back in their home countries. Full Story 

• Renewed focus on Roberson case is latest in deluge of political pressure aimed at Texas judiciary

  By Alejandro Serrano Oct. 3, 2025

  The latest calls to stave off the politically charged execution come after a summer where GOP leaders asked the state courts to kick Democrats out of office and throw Beto O’Rourke in jail. Full Story 

• Texas attorney general tells 4 cities to drop tax hikes amid investigations into incomplete audits

  By Carlos Nogueras Ramos Oct. 3, 2025

  Most of the cities — Odessa, La Marque, Tom Bean and Whitesboro — said they are following the law and Ken Paxton’s office is jumping the gun on enforcing new state rules. Full Story 

• What we know about Texas colleges reviewing courses amid push to limit gender identity instruction

  By Jessica Priest Updated: Oct. 2, 2025

  The federal and state governments want restrictions on recognizing trans and nonbinary people. Here’s how Texas’ higher education leaders are responding. Full Story 

• Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris pleads guilty to child sex abuse

  By Jamie Stengle, Associated Press Oct. 2, 2025

  The ex-pastor of Gateway Church in Southlake will serve the first six months of his 10-year suspended sentence in a county jail in Oklahoma, where the abuse took place. Full Story 

• New Uvalde records reveal how school district changed course on supporting police chief

  By Lexi Churchill, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica, and Colleen DeGuzman, The Texas Tribune Updated: Oct. 2, 2025

  The details were revealed in more than 25,000 pages of records released after a yearslong legal fight by news outlets including ProPublica and The Texas Tribune. Full Story 

• Roughly 350 complaints filed against Texas teachers for alleged comments on killing of Charlie Kirk

  By Ayden Runnels Updated: Oct. 2, 2025

  Several school districts have already taken disciplinary action against staff for comments made about the Christian conservative activist’s death. Full Story 

• Economic boom or environmental disaster? Rural Texas grapples with pros, cons of data centers

  By Jayme Lozano Carver Oct. 2, 2025

  Local leaders see data centers, which help power the world’s shift to artificial intelligence, as a way to keep their towns open. Residents worry their way of life — and water — is at stake. Full Story 

• Republican Carlos De La Cruz announces run for redrawn 35th Congressional District

  By Marijke Friedman Oct. 2, 2025

  U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz's brother is the latest to enter a GOP primary field vying for the San Antonio-area district newly gerrymandered to favor Republicans. Full Story 

• Texas could bear the brunt of expiring ACA tax credits. Is the GOP delegation willing to make a deal?

  By Gabby Birenbaum Oct. 2, 2025

  Democrats in Congress want to renew the Obamacare subsidies as part of any deal to reopen the government. Texas Republicans say the policy needs major reforms. Full Story 

• At hearing, Democrats say the redistricting process was flawed from the start

  By Eleanor Klibanoff Oct. 1, 2025

  On the first day of a two-week trial, the plaintiffs’ lawyers honed in on who drew the new map and whether race was a factor. Full Story 

• Texas launches task force to target repeat criminal offenders in Houston area

  By Colleen DeGuzman Oct. 1, 2025

  Gov. Greg Abbott said state troopers and local law enforcement will start an effort in Harris County that he hopes to duplicate in other parts of Texas. Full Story 

• Talarico outraises Allred with massive fundraising haul to kick off Senate Democratic primary

  By Kayla Guo Updated: Oct. 1, 2025

  The Austin state lawmaker took in $6.2 million in the three weeks since he launched his bid, outpacing the $4.1 million Allred raised over the last three months. Full Story 

• The federal government has shut down. Here’s what it means for Texas

  By Gabby Birenbaum and Marijke Friedman Oct. 1, 2025

  Many federal employees are required to continue working without pay, though furloughs — or the usual uptick in workers calling in sick — could disrupt some services. Full Story