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The high court's decision lowers the burden of proof for states locked in similar water battles with upstream neighbors. 

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The state's two U.S. senators are likely to play pivotal roles in what is expected to be a politically explosive confirmation process.

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The San Antonio Democrat's sentence comes after he was convicted of 11 felonies in connection with FourWinds Logistics, a now-defunct oilfield services company found to have perpetrated a Ponzi scheme against investors. 

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On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law banning gay sodomy — a watershed moment for gay rights. But 15 years later, same-sex couples face another court case that aims to roll back their rights.

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As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Donald Trump's tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes. 

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In a detention center near Houston, an asylum seeker from Honduras said he agreed to sign a voluntary removal order from the U.S. after federal officials promised to reunite him with his 6-year-old daughter.

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The decision comes years after the state found that Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership, a subsidiary of Xerox, allowed workers with limited expertise to approve dental claims for the state's Medicaid program. 

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The state's highest civil court has ruled that Laredo's ban on plastic bags violates state law.

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A lack of space and a legal settlement stand in his administration's way.

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Texas loses an estimated $1.1 billion each year in uncollected sales tax from online retailers that don't have a physical presence in the state. 

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order he says will "keep the families together" when they're apprehended illegally crossing the border. But that does little for families who have already been split apart.

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Children held at the Shiloh Treatment Center, a government contractor south of Houston that houses immigrant minors, described being held down and injected, according to federal court filings.

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How exactly are families being separated at the border? Here's where parents and children go after they're apprehended.

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Thousands of immigrant children have been separated from their parents at the Texas-Mexico border. We’ve compiled a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help.

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Four months after he was convicted of 11 felonies, Texas state Sen. Carlos Uresti announced Monday that he will resign from the Texas Legislature, where he's served for more than two decades.

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A varsity swimmer was found "responsible" for sexually assaulting a fellow student. But after a brief suspension and one semester of academic probation, he can rejoin the team. 

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The advocates are attempting to undo Texas abortion-related laws going back to 1999. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Austin.

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The high court's ruling on a Minnesota state law is likely to reverberate in Texas, which has a similar law on the books. Neither state allows voters to wear political garments or accessories in their polling places. 

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“The mere fact that a country may have problems effectively policing certain crimes — such as domestic violence or gang violence ... cannot itself establish an asylum claim,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled Monday.

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The U.S. Justice Department said late Friday it agrees the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be terminated. That court filing came after Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit last month to end the 2012 program.

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