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A little more than a year after catastrophic floods devastated Central Texas, another deluge hit the area. How are residents and the state responding to this new tragedy?

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Texas foster care agency cancels troubled provider’s contract

The Department of Family and Protective Service’s action comes four months after it placed EMPOWER into receivership in the wake of the deaths of two children under its care and staffing problems.

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Judge blocks feds from deporting witness to Houston ICE shooting

The order applies to one of the three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE. Lawyers are seeking the men’s release from detention.

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ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters

Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.

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U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez takes steps to prevent renaming Boca Chica Beach

A SpaceX superfan proposed changing Boca Chica Beach's name to reflect its significance to space travel.

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Tracking the money raised and spent in the U.S. Senate race between James Talarico and Ken Paxton

See the latest fundraising totals, where the money is coming from and how super PACs are spending in what’s poised to be Texas’ most expensive Senate race.

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Talarico pledges $25 million for Black voter outreach at sometimes tense Houston town hall

The Democratic Senate nominee faced pointed questions from some Black voters and was confronted by a political content creator who said “you cannot win without us.”

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Texarkana region embraces lithium mining potential

Texarkana’s first lithium symposium marked a milestone for Texas lithium development, laying the groundwork for discussions on critical issues.

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Texas’ bite of the microchip industry is growing thanks to public grants, incentives

For years, the state has been the leading exporter of semiconductor chips. After the Legislature invested more than $1.5 billion into incentives since 2023, the industry has been booming.

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Dallas birthed the booming DFW region. It’s now bleeding people, arenas and companies to the suburbs.

North Texas is growing and Dallas’ financial sector is booming. But the city is losing residents and businesses — and two major sports franchises are departing the urban core.

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How a man once ordered to pay libel damages helped launch an investigation into Islamic private schools

A man convicted of libel in Britain helped spur investigations into Islamic private schools applying to Texas’ voucher program, legal filings say.

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Key differences spared Texas lives in second straight July flood

Emergency responders say better tools and preparation also played life-saving roles after intense storms dropped heavy amounts of rain.

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Uvalde residents shocked by rare flooding that ripped through homes

The week’s prolonged flooding hit Uvalde harder than almost anywhere else in the state, Gov. Greg Abbott said. Homeowners never imagined they’d have to deal with a flood in the South Texas city.

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Houston police worked with ICE on at least 103 occasions since April, report shows

The first report on police-ICE interactions required by the City Council shows Houston transferred 18% of people with immigration-related warrants to ICE custody.

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Anti-immigrant buoys that went adrift amid Rio Grande flooding force closure of key bridge to Mexico

The buoys had forced the closure of two bridges near Eagle Pass for about three hours on Thursday when Rio Grande levels rose.

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Robert Howden, Abbott aide, to succeed Jane Nelson as Texas’ top election official

Howden’s appointment follows weeks of speculation over who would take over running Texas’ elections before the November midterms.

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At a Houston funeral home, a community comes together to pay respects to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

As his sons greeted visitors near the casket of their father, who was killed in an ICE operation, some at the public visitation said they knew him well — even if they’d never met him.

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Paxton and Talarico open battle for South Texas with dueling rallies, diverging pitches

Paxton rallied in McAllen while Talarico toured the border this week, offering an early look at how each will vie in the coming months for the Latino voters who swung to Trump in 2024.

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As flooded Texas towns recover, downstream river levels haven’t yet peaked

While Gov. Greg Abbott declared “the worst of the rain is behind us,” he cautioned that rivers in the hardest-hit counties still pose a danger.

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Trump administration revives rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits

The rule allows federal officials to deny green cards to immigrants who use a public program, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.

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Where to find flooding resources and how to help impacted Texans

From addressing storm damage to mental health needs, here’s how to help or find resources.

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Texas Democrats ask for investigation into Ken Paxton voter registration

The complaint comes after The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found the Texas attorney general repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live.

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Billionaire Reid Hoffman gives $10 million to super PAC backing Talarico’s Senate bid in Texas

The LinkedIn co-founder’s donation was nearly 80% of the pro-Talarico super PAC’s second-quarter haul. It comes as the Austin Democrat wages a campaign focused on keeping big money out of politics.

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FBI suggests migrants’ van in fatal Houston shooting had meth. A lawyer says it was salt.

Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, whose office is running an investigation into the shooting, also expressed doubt that there were drugs in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van.

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Ken Paxton’s campaign says he will debate James Talarico in Texas’ U.S. Senate race

Paxton's campaign said he plans to debate after Talarico challenged him to do so, though it did not commit to a specific host.

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