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The Texas governor pushed back against the president’s call for federal oversight, even as Abbott and other Republicans have taken steps to assert state control over Harris County elections.

The agreement with the Department of Justice and U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, filed in court Tuesday, settles the 2023 lawsuit alleging that owners of the development engaged in deceptive advertising and targeted Hispanic residents with predatory loans and seller-financed mortgages.

Sen. John Cornyn is seeking Texas Republicans’ nomination for a fifth term, in a contest that has seen bitter and expensive attacks on all sides. A new poll shows Texas Attorney General Paxton pulling away from Cornyn, but with no candidate leading by enough to avoid a runoff.

The American Association of University Professors has started a petition against policies that limit classroom discussions about topics including race and gender.

500 million tickets were requested to attend the World Cup, according to FIFA.

A photo appearing to depict the Republican Senator on a plane went viral on social media, after Cruz famously left Texas for Cancún during 2021's deadly winter storm. A spokesperson for Cruz said Wednesday he "will be back in Texas before the storm is projected to hit."

Hinojosa has a solid lead in polling for the Democratic primary for governor of Texas. But the Republican Abbott has over $86 million in his campaign to spend in his quest for a fourth term.

According to the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Jeffery Lee Lawson claims he suffered from “burning lungs, shortness of breath, pain in his throat, nausea, dizziness and skin irritation” as a result of the chemical leak.

The TCEQ is weighing how to implement two new state laws that could tighten oversight of concrete batch plants.

The Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico wrote in a social media post that an aircraft from its department, conducting a medical support mission with a nonprofit that helps pediatric burn patients, experienced an issue during its approach in Galveston.

Texas also saw counties set the fewest new execution dates in at least three decades, according to an annual report by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Harris County was an outlier in that trend.

Jewish groups and law enforcement agencies across the Houston area are on alert in the wake of the shooting, in which at least 15 people were killed and dozens more were injured.