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What can Texas do to stop blackouts from happening again? Texas lawmakers are looking into it.
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The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley turned away people because they could not prove they live in the United States. Proof of residency and citizenship are not required under state rules.
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The Public Utility Commission of Texas has implemented a ban on utility cutoffs for consumers who don’t pay their bills. The move does not apply to cooperatives or to municipality-owned utilities like CPS in San Antonio or Austin Energy.
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Texas farmers say this week's winter storm was unlike anything they've experienced before. The below-freezing temperatures as well as power and water outages have severely disrupted the country's food supply chain.
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One more Texan has been charged in the aftermath of the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. At least 19 Texans are now facing charges.
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A federal watchdog for pandemic relief funding is asking for information about Texas Sen Ted Cruz’s efforts to change a loan program. Requirements for the program were altered soon after Cruz wrote to officials in charge — the changes benefitted major Cruz donors.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed lawsuit seeking to throw out election results in other states came originally from lawyers close to the campaign of former President Donald Trump, according to a report in the New York Times.
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In an arrest affidavit for an alleged participant in the Capitol insurrection, the Federal Bureau of Investigation labeled a Texas-based group as an "extremist militia." For many familiar with the group's activities, the label didn't come as a huge surprise.
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A group of Republicans has launched a national campaign targeting Republican Senator Ted Cruz and others who they say need to be held accountable for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building.
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The high court vacated two rulings from the lower U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with Texas GOP officials arguing that Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 2020 executive order prohibited abortion under all but a few narrow circumstances in an attempt to preserve medical resources for COVID-19 patients.