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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — Republican candidates in redrawn congressional districts across the country have appeared to distance themselves from President Donald Trump in recent weeks.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott has named a 13-member state working group to design a three-year bachelor's degree he says could save Texas students $15,000 to $35,000 and cut degree costs by a quarter.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Texas oil and natural gas industry is showing signs of employment improvement after reporting months of job losses.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Austin Democrats running for top statewide offices financially supported a political action committee that advocated for a ballot initiative to increase school district property taxes. They have also vocally supported increasing property taxes and state spending to additionally fund public schools.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured a legal victory against TikTok, which he says makes Texas the first state in the nation to hold the social media platform liable for misleading parents about the safety of its app and for exposing children to inappropriate content.
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Reporting from Just the News
Old wine in a new bottle: As threats against immigration agents move from social media into federal courtrooms, prosecutors are treating online calls to kill federal officers as crimes, and the sentences are starting to set a pattern. Threatening the life of the U.S. President became a federal crime in 1917, while criminal penalties for threatening other federal officials and employees were enacted later through laws like the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved reimbursing Texas $7.5 billion for costs incurred by the state's border security operations during the Biden administration's border crisis.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Gov. Greg Abbott, House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced on Friday their commitment to bring greater transparency and accountability “to rogue local prosecutors who refuse to enforce Texas law.”
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Reporting from Just the News
The lawsuit was initiated in April 2026. It alleged that the center, which has operated for nearly 20 years, was actively helping people from foreign countries evade federal immigration rules to give birth on U.S. soil.
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Reporting from Just the News
Flock cameras are automated license plate readers. The company markets them as a way to help law enforcement, but many have criticized them over fears of unlawful surveillance.
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