Jill Ament | Texas Standard
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Less than a third of $18 billion in aid has been used so far, with two years left to spend it.
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Brittney Griner trial spurs wrongfully detained Americans to seek response from Biden administrationThe basketball star faces charges that could keep her in a Russian prison for up to 10 years, if she’s convicted.
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Texas Republican Party leaders want the state to adopt laws that would shorten the early voting period and no longer allow mail-in voting for anyone 65 and up.
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Campuses won’t be warned ahead of time about the “random intruder detection audits.”
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On Friday, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, abortions in Texas ceased despite the fact that the state’s trigger law banning the procedure has not yet gone into effect.
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“So it’s not just that it’s a rightward shift, it’s that there’s not really a slippery slope anymore. The justices are running to the bottom of the slope.”
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A bipartisan group of mayors from 13 major Texas cities is calling for a special legislative session to address mass shootings, most notably calling for certain gun reforms.
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As people in Texas and across the country wait to see if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns federal abortion protections, there are also a handful of other pending opinions from the high court with Texas implications, from immigration to gun control.
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As a heatwave grips the middle third of the country, Texas residents have been dealing with triple-digit heat for nearly two weeks. That's unusual for June and forecasters say there's more to come.
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Advisory boards for the FDA and CDC are expected to weigh in soon, making it likely vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer could soon be available for young kids.
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Access to high-quality, affordable child care is becoming scarcer, according to new data from Children at Risk, a nonprofit dedicated to research into child poverty and inequity in Texas.
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The House passed a gun control measure on Wednesday – the same day as a congressional hearing on mass shootings – but it’s unlikely that legislation will make it out of the Senate.