A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found Texas has worse racial and ethnic health disparities than other states in the Southwest.
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New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert says EPA chief Lee Zeldin has rescinded regulations, cut or eliminated departments and terminated the jobs of many scientists. Trump calls Zeldin "our secret weapon."
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A grand jury charged Comey with threatening Trump's life through his since-deleted 2025 post of seashells forming "8647." Trump is the 47th president, and the term "86" has a few possible meanings.
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The UAE says it will leave OPEC, amid tensions with Saudi Arabia and the chaos of the Iran war.
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The court kept Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act intact, but the decision all but guts a landmark law that came out of the Civil Rights Movement and protected the collective voting power of racial minorities when political maps are redrawn.
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Business owners say DSHS overstepped its authority when it changed the regulations around consumable hemp products. The head of the Texas Hemp Business Council agrees.
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Once considered a premium option, buying beef in bulk from a rancher has become comparatively affordable as retail prices rise. But it requires paying more upfront — and enough freezer space.
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Twenty-eight people died at the Christian girls' camp during last July's deadly flooding.
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A chlorine gas leak at the plant last year caused a shelter in place order for nearby cities.
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The court issued a decision Monday morning allowing Texas to use the controversial congressional maps that were drawn last summer. The order reverses a lower court ruling that could have led to the maps being thrown out.
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U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson traveled to the northwest state of Sinaloa for the groundbreaking ceremony for a billion-dollar methanol factory, one of the largest single private U.S. investments in Mexico in recent history. During the visit he announced an anti-corruption campaign targeting Mexican elected officials and politicians suspected of links to organized crime.
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