A Collin County judge’s reported decision could keep details of the divorce from spilling into Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate race.
Jessica Shuran Yu
Jessica Shuran Yu was a reporting fellow based in Austin. She earned a master’s in journalism from the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University, where she covered a variety of beats, including education, health care, and gender-based violence for Columbia News Service and her master's thesis. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University, where she freelanced sports stories for The Guardian US and reported for her campus newspaper, The Observer. Her reporting also has been published in Documented NY. Before studying journalism, Jessica was a competitive figure-skater for more than a decade. She speaks Mandarin.
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Hill Country floods
The floods swept away a young couple and their friends. Searching for them brought their families together.
The four friends are among the hundreds of victims. The bodies of three of them have been found. Their families have searched for their loved ones since Friday.
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Hill Country floods
Central Texas flooding death toll rises to at least 100 as search continues for survivors
About two dozen people were still missing. Many more people could still be unaccounted for, officials warned, noting that visitors to the area for the July 4th weekend make it difficult to assess an exact number.
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2025 Legislative Recap
Texas lawmakers update sexual assault laws, allowing more survivors to pursue justice
After three sessions, Texas lawmakers passed a bill last month that defines consent and fixes what advocates called a loophole in Texas sexual assault laws.
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Criminal Justice
Texas capital murder case attempts to severely punish abortion pill use by treating a fetus as a person
A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills.
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Politics
As Trump celebrates military, Texans protest president’s aggressive immigration enforcement
Demonstrations in McAllen, Midland, Odessa, Austin and elsewhere in Texas were largely peaceful, as some protests went well into the night.
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Politics
Gov. Greg Abbott to deploy 5,000 Texas National Guard to sites of planned immigration protests
Demonstrations against immigration raids began in Los Angeles last week and have spread across the country, including to Texas. More are planned this weekend.
