Thousands turned out at demonstrations across the state and protested Texas’ new abortion restrictions. Texas Tribune photographers were there.
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Texas nursing homes turn to state for help with staffing woes as vaccine mandate looms
About 40% of Texas nursing home workers are unvaccinated and could face dismissal or quit their jobs under a federal vaccination requirement for the industry.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
The Justice Department will argue against Texas’ abortion law Friday. Here’s what you need to know.
The U.S. sued Texas after the Biden administration vowed to oppose Texas’ new near-total abortion ban. The lawsuit joins several legal challenges already in progress.
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Planned Parenthood asks Texas Supreme Court to allow more than a dozen cases against Texas’ abortion law to resume
A panel of five judges indefinitely blocked the lawsuits last week upon the request of an anti-abortion group.
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Gov. Greg Abbott and local officials are fighting several legal battles over mask mandates. Here’s what you need to know.
The Texas fight over mask mandates is confusing. We’re here to help.
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Texas Legislature 2021
Analysis: Texas politicians are thinking what they think their voters think they should think
It’s fashionable to gripe about polls, but they can expose voter sentiment and reveal, sometimes, why elected officials act the way they do.
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Texas law restricting access to abortion medications goes into effect Dec. 2 after governor signs bill
The new law narrows the window in which physicians are allowed to give abortion-inducing medication to patients from 10 weeks to seven weeks into pregnancy, bucking FDA guidelines.
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A Republican wants to add exceptions for rape and incest to Texas’ new near-total abortion ban. He faces an uphill climb.
The proposal comes almost two weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott’s comments that the state would “eliminate all rapists.”
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Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths this summer, more Texans under 60 are dying
Health officials say that the state’s high rate of unvaccinated people contributed to a summer surge in hospitalizations, which preceded the spike in deaths.
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Texas abortion providers ask U.S. Supreme Court to fast-track their challenge to state’s near-total abortion ban
The Supreme Court had previously declined to block the law but didn’t rule on its constitutionality.