WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared to lean toward allowing a challenge brought by abortion providers to a Republican-backed law that imposes a near-total ban on the procedure in Texas and lets private citizens enforce it. Over nearly three hours of oral arguments, the […]
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday takes up two challenges to the nation’s most restrictive abortion law: the Texas measure that has all but stopped abortions in the state. The court’s decision to consider the issue on an unusually accelerated schedule ramps up the drama over abortion, as the […]
A man was killed and nine other people were injured when gunfire erupted at a Halloween party in eastern Texas, police said. The shooting occurred just before midnight Saturday as “at least a couple hundred people” were in attendance at an event center in Texarkana, about 180 miles east of […]
A man died and nine other people were wounded in a shooting at a Halloween party in eastern Texas, police said. Gunfire erupted late Saturday at the Octavia Event Center in Texarkana, the city’s police department said in a news released. Situated around 180 miles east of Dallas, Texarkana is […]
The move followed an announcement hours earlier from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office that a 10-state coalition had filed its own lawsuit against the administration for imposing a vaccine mandate on federal contractors and federally contracted employees. The legal challenges are the latest from Republican-led states to sweeping and stringent […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that he’s considering launching a new university: the “Texas Institute of Technology & Science.” It’s not clear how serious the mega-billionaire is, particularly considering the proposed school’s obscene acronym and Musk’s reputation for joking on Twitter — even to the point of violating securities […]
“Over the past few months, legislators in Texas have passed archaic policies, disguised as laws, that directly violate privacy rights and a woman’s freedom to choose, restrict access to free and fair elections for Black and Brown voters, and increase the risk of contracting coronavirus,” the two-page letter signed by […]
KERRVILLE, Texas — A third person injured when a drag racer veered into a crowd and crashed during a racing event in Central Texas has died, police said Wednesday. Rebecca Cedillo, 46, of Converse, a San Antonio suburb, died at University Hospital in San Antonio, Kerrville police Sgt. Jonathan Lamb […]