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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Hundreds of U.S. troops are being repositioned to the Rio Grande Valley after Coast Guard crew in Starr County encountered gunfire from across the Mexican border Sept. 26..
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Reporting from Just the News
Funding at risk for states that treat failure to affirm gender identity as child abuse, offer "sex-rejecting procedures" for foster kids. State courts would have to honor custody orders when parent flees state with kid for trans procedures.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Wharton County residents continue to express opposition to Amazon building a 3,000-acre data center in the rural farm community located roughly an hour south of Houston.
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Reporting from Just the News
Cardone determined in the injunction that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the merits of at least one of their claims and barred the administration from using waivers until the case is finished.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday celebrated Texas receiving the first reimbursement from the federal government for money Texas taxpayers spent on border security efforts through Operation Lone Star.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Federal and state law enforcement say they have thwarted a potential mass shooting event targeting the state capitol building in Austin. The alleged shooter was reportedly angry about pro-Israel policy in Texas and the U.S. and said members of a Jewish lobbyist group “should be exterminated.”
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Reporting from Just the News
The president spoke to voters at the Peterbilt Motors Company in Denton, Texas, where he warned attendees not to elect Paxton's rival James Talarico, claiming a "vegan" should not be the senator of the Lone Star state.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court should do its job and decide on the merits in a consequential climate case before it, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twelve state financial officers sent a letter to the Department of Labor praising it for providing employers with necessary information to help manage and save on healthcare costs, while also committing to help the department enforce Trump’s proposed Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rule.
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Reporting from Just the News
The move comes as Republicans gear up for the November midterms next month, where Republicans are hoping to extend their majorities in both chambers of Congress, and Democrats hope to flip both chambers.
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