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FILE - Notebooks are stacked on desks in a classroom at A.G. Hilliard Elementary School, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools
Texas’ education board has voted to allow Bible-infused teachings in elementary schools. The approval Friday follows other Republican-led states that have pushed this year to give religion a larger presence in public classrooms.
 
FILE - A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elementary school lessons
The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public schools to adopt for lessons from kindergarten through fifth grade.
 
FILE - A Texas flag is displayed in an elementary school in Murphy, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Texas proposal would give schools the option to use Bible teachings in lessons
Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students from kindergarten through fifth grade under a proposal before the state board of education. Hours of testimony were heard Monday for and against the plan.
 
FILE - Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, Sept. 27, 2024. (Criminal Justice Reform Caucus via AP, File)
The key moments as a Texas man faces execution in a shaken baby syndrome case
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled against a legislative subpoena that lawmakers used to stave off the execution of Robert Roberson.
 
Dr. Phil McGraws, in blue suit gesturing with hand, makes comments during a committee hearing in the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas high court says execution in ‘shaken baby syndrome’ case can’t be halted by lawmaker subpoena
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a legislative subpoena cannot be used to stop an execution, putting a decisive end to a legal battle that halted the scheduled execution of Robert Roberson last month.
 
FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, Nov. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas says he was detained in airport over being ‘disoriented’
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained by police at an airport near Washington, D.C. earlier this month.
 
Michael Mireles, Votes Director of Civic Engagement for La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE), listens as the group holds a news conference to talk about yesterday's election in San Juan, Texas, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
A Texas border county backed Democrats for generations. Trump won it decisively
Republicans had a big night in South Texas, flipping predominately Hispanic counties along the US-Mexico border. The area has been a backdrop of Donald Trump’s promises for tougher border measures.
 
FILE - Rep. Monica De La Cruz, D-Texas, speaks during the Republican National Convention, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Republicans again make gains on Texas-Mexico border and hang onto a US House seat
Democratic U.S. Rep Vicente Gonzalez has won reelection to a competitive South Texas House seat, defeating repeat opponent and former U.S. Rep. Mayra Flores.
 
Rep. Colin Allred, D-Texas, hugs LeToya Luckett-Coles after speaking at Texas Southern University on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)
Ted Cruz, Colin Allred make spirited final pitches to Texas voters in Senate race
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred are making their final pitches to Texas voters at campaign stops across the state as Election Day nears.
 
Musical artist Beyonce, right, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, embrace on stage during a campaign rally Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan)
Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Trump
Kamala Harris and Beyoncé ignited a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Donald Trump on Friday. The superstar told the Democratic nominee’s biggest crowd ever that it was “time to sing a new song.”
 
Dr. Phil McGraw, center, leaves the room after giving testimony to a committee discussing the case of death row inmate Robert Roberson, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas man whose execution was halted doesn’t appear at state Capitol after subpoena
A Texas man whose execution was halted because of a last-ditch subpoena won’t testify in person before lawmakers. Robert Roberson was scheduled to appear Monday before a Texas House committee.
 
Dani Allen, center left with microphone, an anti-death penalty advocate, speaks during a protest outside the prison where Robert Roberson is scheduled for execution at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Huntsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)
Texas’ junk science law is getting another look over Robert Roberson’s case
A man whose execution was halted will testify at a legislative hearing about a “junk science” law in Texas that many say should have saved him long ago.
 
FILE - Demonstrators march and gather near the Texas Capitol following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Texas man drops lawsuit against women he accused of helping his wife get abortion pills
A Texas man who sued his ex-wife’s friends for helping her obtain an abortion informed the court that the two sides reached a settlement, forgoing the need for a trial that would have tested his argument that their actions amounted to assisting in a wrongful death.
 
In an image from video released by the Uvalde Police Dept., shows the scene inside the Robb Elementary school during the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, May 2022. (Uvalde Police Dept. via AP)
Officials release more videos of hesitant police response to Uvalde school shooting
Authorities have released footage from the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that police originally failed to make public.
 
Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson at a prison in Livingston, Texas, on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. Roberson was scheduled for execution in October after being convicted in the death of his infant daughter. (AP Photo/Criminal Justice Reform Caucus)
A Texas execution is renewing calls for clemency. It’s rarely granted
Texas rarely grants clemency for death row inmates, but that’s not stopping a group of bipartisan lawmakers from showing their support for a man scheduled to be executed in October.
 
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., ride on a bus in Phoenix, Oct. 8, 2020, on a small business bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Texas jury clears most ‘Trump Train’ drivers in civil trial over 2020 Biden-Harris bus encounter
A federal jury in Texas has cleared a group of former President Donald Trump supporters and found one person liable in a civil trial over a so-called “Trump Train” that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus in 2020.
 
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., ride on a bus in Phoenix, Oct. 8, 2020, on a small business bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
Jury deliberations begin in civil trial over ‘Trump Train’ encounter with Biden-Harris bus in Texas
“This case is not about politics,” Robert Meyer, an attorney representing those aboard the bus, told the jury. “It’s about safety.”
 
FILE - Texas Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, speaks at a meeting of the House Investigative Committee, June 9, 2022, at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
Texas lawmakers show bipartisan support to try to stop a man’s execution
A bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers is urging Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles to halt an execution. They petitioned Tuesday to stop the execution of Robert Roberson, scheduled for October 17.
 
FILE - Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo, center, stands during a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
Former Uvalde schools police chief makes first court appearance since indictment
The former schools police chief in Uvalde, Texas, made his first court appearance on criminal charges that accuse him of failing to take sufficient action during the Robb Elementary School shooting in 2022.
 
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., ride on a bus in Phoenix, Oct. 8, 2020, on a small business bus tour. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
A ‘Trump Train’ convoy surrounded a Biden-Harris bus. Was it political violence?
A jury will soon decide whether a so-called Trump Train that circled a Biden-Harris campaign bus violently intimidated former Democratic lawmaker Wendy Davis and two others. The trial resumes Monday and is expected to last another week.
 
FILE - Then-Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis waves to supporters after making her concession speech, Nov. 4, 2014, in Fort Worth, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
Trial begins over Texas ‘Trump Train’ highway confrontation
A federal trial has begun in Texas in a lawsuit against six supporters of former President Donald Trump. Their so-called “Trump Train” surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus four years ago.
 
Cause probed in partial collapse of bleachers that injured 12 at a Texas rodeo arena
Authorities are investigating the weekend collapse of a portion of bleachers at a rodeo arena in Texas, injuring 12 people near San Antonio. Emergency responders arrived shortly after 9 p.m.
 
Abilene Christian University football team involved in Texas bus crash, leaves 4 injured
Members of the Abilene Christian University football team were injured after a team bus crashed Saturday night in Lubbock, Texas.
 
FILE - Volunteers with Team Brownsville serve food to people gathered at a migrant campsite by the Gateway International Bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, July 17, 2019. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)
Judge shields second border aid group from deeper questioning in Texas investigation
A judge has denied another attempt by Texas to call for a migrant aid group from deeper questioning in a Republican-led investigation into organizations that help immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.
 
Lydia Martinez, a volunteer and great-grandmother whose home was searched, center, speaks at a news conference where she and officials with the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, responded to allegations by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
What to know after Texas authorities searched the homes of Latino campaign volunteers
A Latino voting rights group is calling for a federal investigation after Texas authorities searched the homes of its volunteers last week and seized phones and computers.
 
LULAC National President Roman Palomares speaks at a news conference where he and other officials with LULAC held a news conference to respond to allegations by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Latino voting rights group calls for investigation after Texas authorities search homes
A Latino voting rights group is calling for a federal investigation after its volunteers said Texas authorities raided their homes and seized phones and computers.
 
FILE - Former Norman High School English teacher Summer Boismier holds up a T-shirt with a QR code link to the Brooklyn Public Library at the Green Feather Book Company in Norman, Okla., on Oct. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Sean Murphy, File)
Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who gave class QR code to Brooklyn library in book-ban protest
A former public high school teacher in Oklahoma had her teaching license revoked by the State Board of Education Thursday for providing students a link to a list of banned books posted online two years prior.
 
Tubers float the cool Comal River as temperatures in South Texas hit triple-digit numbers, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in New Braunfels, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Triple-digit temperatures scorch Texas as millions across Southwest under excessive heat warnings
The National Weather Service says a heat dome that has led to nearly 90 consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures in Phoenix has moved into Texas.
 
BeatKing, a Houston rapper known for viral TikTok song ‘Then Leave,’ dies at 39
The manager of the Texas rapper BeatKing says the Houston club music hitmaker has died at the age of 39.
 
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announces corruption charges related to 2022 Election during a press conference on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024, in Houston. Prosecutors in Texas’ largest county say an investigation found no evidence of intent to influence 2022 election outcomes, but Ogg said that her office will pursue criminal charges against a county employee who was allegedly working a second job while polls ran out of paper ballots. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Houston prosecutors find no evidence of efforts to sway 2022 elections but charge a county worker
Prosecutors in Texas’ largest county say an investigation found no evidence of intent to influence 2022 election outcomes.
 
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