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Texas Governor Greg Abbott said Tuesday he is suing the federal government over the Defense Department’s vaccine mandate for military service members, saying the requirement interferes with his authority over the Texas National Guard. Abbott accused the Biden administration of violating the Second Militia clause of the Constitution and undermining his commander-in-chief power.

University of Texas at Austin researchers project a statewide surge in coronavirus cases over the next few weeks will outpace the nation as a whole.

“Everyone always talks about New York and California, but I think Texas is going to be the place to be,” said Joseph Ash with New York City-based Kassin Sabbagh Realty. “The workforce is moving there, companies are moving there. To me, it’s the best state in the country.”

Osvaldo Chacon has been singing since he was 5, and 15 years later, he's going to compete in a program he's been hoping to get to all those years.

The Texas Military Department will soon begin building border wall infrastructure in the Rio Grande Valley and continue construction in the Del Rio sector as part of Governor Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star. The controversial program is set to continue indefinitely.

What started with strap-on dildos at school board meetings has turned into gubernatorial letters to state agencies.

"The larger matter at hand here is that the Texas governor is trying to wind up fears around COVID and around this new strain of COVID to justify his anti-asylum and anti-migrant policies in South Texas,” said Ari Sawyer with Human Rights Watch.

In his closing arguments, Attorney Jamal Alsaffar said the $31 million proposed by the federal government told him that it was “never interested in doing the right thing.”

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told congressional investigators that the decision to begin expelling migrants at the border under U.S. Health Code Title 42 during Trump’s tenure “wasn’t based on a public health assessment.”

Texas hemp shop owners are celebrating recent signals from the Drug Enforcement Administration that delta-8 is not a controlled substance at this time.

It will be a rainy Thanksgiving Day for much of Texas as a cold front gobbles up the state.

Large segments of the white tailed deer population may be harboring SARS-CoV-2.