WhatsApp, Meta can access Texans’ private messages, AG Ken Paxton claims in lawsuit.

1) This is the story of Andrea, a 23yo Guatemalan with an ovarian cyst scheduled for surgery before ICE arrested her in the Minneapolis surge that killed 2 US citizens & helped lead to the ouster of top DHS officials. Her story is greater than her own. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/e...

A construction company sued the Trump administration after it awarded the bulk of new Texas border wall contracts to another company. The suit claims out of the 11 prequalified vendors for the wall projects, U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded about 73% of the contracts’ value to just two.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasters are predicting a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, officials said Thursday. They forecast eight to 14 named storms, with up to three potential Category 3 or higher hurricanes — which have at least 111 miles per hour wind speeds.

After the March primary elections, there was a lot left undecided in Texas. 🧵

Current and former University of Texas at Dallas students are suing school leaders and police officers over their arrests while protesting the war in Gaza and for allegedly suspending the university’s chapter of a pro-Palestinian student organization.

Breaking News: The Texas Board of Nursing has temporarily suspended the license of Camp Mystic’s chief health officer, saying her continued practice “constitutes a continuing and imminent threat to public welfare.”

In the race to keep up with skyrocketing demand for crude, oil and gas companies are increasingly turning to AI to gain an edge over their competition. Despite its growing use in the industry, few details are available to the public — or to the industry’s regulatory agency.

Bigger price tag, smaller footprint: How Austin’s Project Connect went off the rails.

State data shows that in April of this year, there were nearly 500,000 fewer eligible Texans participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, than in April 2025.

Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled to have surgery to remove an ovarian cyst in February but was detained by ICE, which has repeatedly denied her surgery. Nine doctors who reviewed her case said she’s at risk of a medical emergency.

Rain gives Corpus Christi a small break, delaying projected water crisis by 3 months.

Texas Tribune education reporter Jaden Edison and state Rep. Ramón Romero join the latest episode of TribCast to unpack all the ways immigration enforcement is shaking up life in Texas, from schools to businesses and beyond.

In the GOP runoff for Texas Railroad commissioner, billionaires, big oil companies and trade groups flood the campaign pockets of candidates Jim Wright and Bo French.

Breaking: President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Ken Paxton in the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate in Texas, ending over a year of furious lobbying and giving the attorney general a significant boost in his campaign against Sen. John Cornyn.

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday sued a group calling itself Texas American Muslim University, accusing it of operating without state approval, misleading prospective students and using a name too similar to Texas A&M.

Texas summer camps have closed, scaled back operations due to state’s new regulations

Defense Department delays 54 wind projects in Texas, citing national security concerns

Early voting in Texas' runoff election runs from May 18 to 22. Election day is May 26. Here's what you need to know before heading to the polls.

New: $1.7 billion contract awarded “for border wall in Big Bend” amid public confusion over construction plans.

Here are the donors bankrolling John Cornyn and Ken Paxton’s record-breaking Senate primary

New: The Texas Supreme Court rejected Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to remove Houston Rep. Gene Wu from office Friday, saying that the Legislature was able to secure House Democrats’ attendance and restore a quorum last summer without involvement from the court.

Trump administration sues Catholic diocese to seize land on religious site near El Paso for border barrier

Some smoke shops say the flurry of court actions since March 31 has already forced them to scale back hours, cut staff and prepare to shut down.

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has secured an unusual settlement over child transgender care that compels Texas Children’s Hospital to create the nation’s first ever “detransition clinic” in addition to paying the state $10 million.

Texas executes 600th inmate since death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Edward Busby was executed by lethal injection Thursday, reinforcing Texas’ position as the nation's leader in capital punishment.

Breaking: A Supreme Court order issued on Thursday grants telehealth access to mifepristone until the 5th Circuit hears full arguments in a related Louisiana lawsuit, extending access for at least several months.

Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday unveiled his public safety priorities for the 2027 legislative session. Topping the governor's wish list was denying bail to all unauthorized migrants accused of certain felonies.

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a stay of execution for Texas death row inmate Edward Busby on Thursday, clearing the way for his execution tonight amid concerns of his ineligibility due to intellectual disability.

Gary Grief, former executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission, was reindicted by a Travis County grand jury after a previous indictment was dismissed by an assistant district attorney in mid-April.

Cornyn and Paxton bury each other in negative ads as Senate GOP runoff enters final stretch

Eight of the 15 fastest-growing cities in the U.S. are in Texas — primarily suburbs in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Other places in Texas lost residents, including some of its biggest cities: Dallas, El Paso, Arlington, Plano, Irving and Garland.

As U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico campaigns against big money in politics, he is being supported by a super PAC bankrolled by several billionaires, as well as nonprofits that do not have to disclose their funders.

During a hearing to block parts of Senate Bill 4, which would let Texas police arrest people suspected of having crossed the border illegally, a federal judge asserted he believed parts of the state law are unconstitutional.

New: Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday he is investigating the Dallas County sheriff for allegedly refusing to seek a formal agreement to cooperate with ICE. Even without an agreement, the Dallas County Jail was among the nation’s top 10 lockups for ICE detainers.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and a Dallas-area private foster care contractor have jointly asked a court to extend the state’s oversight of the nonprofit through the summer.

A violent crimes task force targeting repeat offenders, set up seven months ago in Houston, will broaden its activities to the Austin, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas.

Since 2025, at least 261 DACA recipients have been arrested — 75 of them in Texas. At least 86 of them have been deported, according to DHS. The detentions have alarmed DACA recipients, who for the past 14 years believed that they would be protected from deportation if they don’t commit crimes.

Texas voters have listed immigration and border security among their top issues for years, but recent polling found they are less of a priority than at any point in recent history.

A federal judge on Monday blocked Texas State University from firing a professor who says the school punished him for an off-campus talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Frisco has become the unwilling backdrop for a larger conflict between Republicans’ nascent relationship with Indian American voters, and the party’s rising nativist strain, which rejects anyone not born here, including naturalized citizens.

Christian Menefee, Alex Mealer lead Houston-area congressional runoffs, new poll finds

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James Talarico on Monday aligned himself with President Donald Trump over their calls to suspend the federal gas tax — and took a dig at U.S. Sen. John Cornyn for his previous opposition to the measure.

New: Roughly 76,000 fewer students enrolled in Texas public schools this academic year — the first non-pandemic decline in nearly four decades — with Hispanic students accounting for the overwhelming majority of the loss, according to a report released Monday.

Across the nation, as many as 200,000 immigrant drivers could be pushed out of the trucking industry by the crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses, according to the Department of Transportation — even as the U.S. faces a shortage of up to 80,000 truck drivers.

The National Board Certification is widely considered the most demanding for teachers. Texas leaders are examining whether it fits the state’s merit-based system.

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Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar is now facing an attempt to remove him from office nearly six months after being indicted on federal fraud charges. Cuellar, whose brother is Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, denied he defrauded the sheriff’s office during the COVID-19 pandemic. bit.ly/4fd6GYP

New: Plans to build portions of the border wall in Big Bend National Park are off after bipartisan backlash over the proposed construction, a top U.S. Customs and Border Patrol official told the Washington Examiner.