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Today on High Plains Morning, we talked to Texas Tribune reporter Jayme Lozano about their upcoming event, "The Future of Rural Texas." On Thursday, November 17th and Friday, November 18th, join leaders and experts from across rural Texas for panel discussions, lectures, interviews and more. It's a free event, and it's also available streaming online.

A Houston vaccine team would like a U.S. distributor but for now focuses its efforts abroad to inoculate those in countries where COVID-19 variants surface more quickly.

Timothy Mellon is the Wyoming-based grandson of banking tycoon Andrew Mellon. He is responsible for nearly 98% of the donations to Texas’ border wall fund.

The Texas Senate has passed a bill restricting transgender youth from playing on sports teams consistent with their gender identity four separate times in 2021.

The proposed congressional map also increases the number of districts where Trump had a majority of voters over Biden in 2020 and protects Republican incumbents who might have been vulnerable by packing their districts with more Trump voters.

The U.S. Department of Education announced the inquiry days after the Texas Education Agency quietly updated its guidance to say school districts can’t require masks.

As dozens of legal battles play out, Texas parents have found themselves caught in confusion about whether their children have to mask up at school.

The Republican-dominated, 15-member board determines what millions of public school students in the state are taught in classrooms.

The federal judge overseeing the decadelong lawsuit against Texas for conditions in its foster care system cut this week’s hearing short. She proposed all parties involved, including the governor, “cut to the chase” to identify solutions.

U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the House will take up the Women's Health Protection Act of 2021 in late September, but the bill faces steep odds in the Senate.