Howden’s appointment follows weeks of speculation over who would take over running Texas’ elections before the November midterms.
State Government
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Environment
New flooding haunts Hill Country residents a year after historic disaster
Residents experiencing flooding on Thursday similar to 2025’s catastrophic July 4 event describe a new sense of preparedness but the same intense anxieties.
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Environment
Where to find flooding resources and how to help impacted Texans
From addressing storm damage to mental health needs, here’s how to help or find resources.
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Immigration
Trump administration revives rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits
The rule allows federal officials to deny green cards to immigrants who use a public program, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.
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Health care
Abortion not a focus in Texas race for U.S. Senate as neither candidates emphasizes the issue
Abortion isn’t polling as high as other issues that matter to women voters, and Democrats have also retreated on the topic.
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Immigration
Texas officials are cracking down on “illegal birth tourism.” Here’s what that means.
Texas officials have sued a Houston area postpartum center as well as investigated Rio Grande Valley hospitals over allegations of soliciting foreigners to have babies on U.S. soil.
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Texas Legislature 2027
Texas agencies must cut spending by 3% under new order from Abbott, Patrick and Burrows
The Big Three framed the move as a way to keep Texas fiscally conservative and help fund priorities like property tax cuts. Public education and school vouchers were exempted.
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Energy
Mexico relies heavily on Texas natural gas. The Trump administration could imperil that relationship.
Despite efforts to boost domestic energy production, Mexico will continue to depend on Texas for natural gas, experts said, undermining its stated goals of energy independence.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Houston protesters call on feds to release more information, and witnesses, to Tuesday’s ICE killing
Protesters demanded feds release footage of the shooting and the three men who were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before he was killed.
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Politics
Historic Rio Grande Valley church saved from being cut off behind border wall
The wall would have blocked parishioners from reaching La Lomita chapel. A state representative has put a stop to those plans.
