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• Watch the TribCast team discuss legislative session’s impact on Texas schools and libraries

  By Texas Tribune Events Staff Updated: June 11, 2025

  During our TribCast Live event at 7 p.m. tonight, we’ll explain what happened, look ahead toward the impact on Texas schools, and hear from experts about what comes next Full Story 

• Here are the new Texas laws that will affect trans and LGBTQ+ people

  By Ayden Runnels June 11, 2025

  Of the more than 100 bills aimed at LGBTQ+ people in the state, less than 10 were approved by lawmakers this session. Full Story 

• With Rick Perry’s backing and $50 million from the state, Texas set to become a leader in psychedelics research

  By Stephen Simpson June 11, 2025

  Lawmakers have approved funding clinical trials for ibogaine as a treatment for addiction and brain trauma. It comes as Texas contemplates banning THC. Full Story 

• Hundreds protest in Austin against nationwide ICE detentions

  By Ayden Runnels Updated: June 10, 2025

  Thirteen people were arrested on various charges during the protest Monday, which ended when officers fired tear gas into a crowd that neared a federal building. Full Story 

• Texas high school students’ STAAR scores show gains in STEM fields, struggles in reading and literacy

  By Atirikta Kumar, Graphics by Edison Wu June 10, 2025

  Education policy experts say the results align with Texas’ workforce goals but note that students still need help. Full Story 

• Amarillo breaks ground on psychiatric hospital, part of the state’s $1.5B investment in mental health

  By Jayme Lozano Carver June 10, 2025

  The facility will bring mental health resources closer to the largely rural region that’s home to nearly 436,000 people. Full Story 

• Texas lawmakers pushed bills aimed at illegal immigration. Here’s what passed and what failed.

  By Alejandro Serrano and Uriel J. García Updated: June 10, 2025

  From requiring law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal officials to forcing state contractors to use E-Verify, here’s how immigration bills fared in this year’s legislative session. Full Story 

• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s push to ban THC in Texas draws rare backlash from the right

  By Alejandro Serrano June 10, 2025

  It’s an unusual situation for the lieutenant governor, long viewed by GOP activists as a stalwart conservative responsible for driving the Legislature rightward. Full Story 

• Texas’ abortion bans are here to stay despite narrow clarification

  By Eleanor Klibanoff June 10, 2025

  Legal challenges have failed, elections haven’t moved the needle and the fight for a narrow clarification shows how immovable these laws are. Full Story 

• Trump’s use of Enemy Aliens Act against alleged gang members is illegal, El Paso judge rules

  By Robert Moore, El Paso Matters June 9, 2025

  The judge’s order prohibits the federal government from using the act to deport people in a large swath of Texas who are accused of being Tren de Aragua members. But the ruling did not order anyone’s release from custody. Full Story 

• Texas foster care agency chief to step down this summer

  By Terri Langford June 9, 2025

  Two years after Stephanie Muth became Department of Family and Protective Services commissioner, staff turnover is down and the number of children without a placement has dropped. Full Story 

• Texas’ GOP congressional delegation meets to discuss redrawing districts ahead of midterms

  By Owen Dahlkamp June 9, 2025

  The proposal would require the Texas Legislature to return for a special session to carry out the rare move of reshaping the state’s political boundaries mid-decade. Full Story 

• Staff vacancies hit Texas weather offices as they brace for a busy hurricane season

  By Alejandra Martinez June 9, 2025

  Houston’s National Weather Service office has lost its head meteorologist amid a federal requirement to cut 10% of NOAA’s staff. Full Story 

• Texas’ swift surrender to DOJ on undocumented student tuition raises questions about state-federal collusion

  By Eleanor Klibanoff June 9, 2025

  Experts say Wednesday’s action to eliminate the long-standing policy could be a “collusive lawsuit,” where the state and feds worked the courts to get a desired outcome. Full Story 

• Lawmakers passed bills this session to boost the state power grid but failed to limit renewables

  By Carlos Nogueras Ramos June 9, 2025

  With demand expected to soar, the Legislature passed bills aimed at boosting supply and making the grid more reliable. Bills to impose more regulations on renewables died. Full Story 

• Texas legalizes shooting invasive sheep from a helicopter

  By Jess Huff June 9, 2025

  Aoudad sheep are joining the short list of animals Texas lawmakers allow to be shot from a helicopter, along with coyotes and feral hogs. Full Story