Texas lawmakers will be able to draw more aggressively partisan maps for the state House, Senate and education board when they return in 2027.
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Courts
U.S. Supreme Court weakens key pillar of Voting Rights Act, opening the door for Texas to redraw political maps
While the court did not strike down the provision entirely, Justice Elena Kagan said Wednesday’s ruling made Section 2 of the VRA “all but a dead letter.”
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Hill Country floods
Camp Mystic director apologizes to families of campers, counselors who died in flood
Parents confronted the Eastlands in an emotional hearing Tuesday over the camp’s failure to protect the children it was entrusted to care for.
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Health care
Texas wants to ban in-home ketamine and add more physician oversight during treatment
Ketamine industry leaders say Texas Medical Board’s proposal to require physician supervision or limit treatments to two people at a time will force clinics to close.
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Hill Country floods
Poor preparation doomed Camp Mystic victims, investigator tells Texas lawmakers in harrowing account
The summer camp hadn’t prepared counselors and staff with adequate emergency training, an evacuation plan or flood preparedness supplies, the investigator concluded.
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Immigration
Texas police can arrest people suspected of entering country illegally, federal court rules
The conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge Senate Bill 4, the 2023 law that lets state police arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally.
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2026 Texas Elections
Texas lieutenant governor Democratic runoff: Who is running and what to know
The lieutenant governor’s office is one of the most powerful in Texas government, and the 2026 race features a Democratic runoff between Vikki Goodwin and Marcos Velez.
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2026 Texas Elections
Texas AG runoff: Mayes Middleton and Chip Roy weigh in on election integrity, lawsuits and more
Texas’ next top lawyer will take over a key driver of the conservative legal movement. We revisited the major issues in an updated Q&A with the two remaining Republican candidates.
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Politics
Speaker Dustin Burrows asks Texas House to investigate Roblox in response to game simulating Uvalde shooting
Burrows added the charge to his list of interim priorities, instructing lawmakers to study ways to strengthen child protections on gaming platforms like Roblox.
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2026 Texas Elections
On the issues: A Q&A with Ken Paxton and John Cornyn
As Cornyn and Paxton head to the runoff, we updated our Q&A to reflect the two candidates. Both declined to participate, so we used their past statements and voting history to show where they stand on foreign policy, AI and other key issues.
