Watch live: Sanjay Gupta of CNN talks about his new book, It Doesn't Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life, with CBS News Medical Contributor @celinegounder.com. #TribFest25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGgA...

Watch live: @chrislhayes.bsky.social of MSNBC talks about his new book, "The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource," with Texas Tribune co-founder @evanasmith.bsky.social. #TribFest25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XrB...

Watch live: U.S. Sen. @schiff.senate.gov sits down with journalist Terry Moran. #TribFest25 www.texastribune.org/2025/11/15/t...

Watch live: Biographer and Historian Walter Isaacson talks about his new book, "The Greatest Sentence Ever Written," with John Avlon of The Bulwark. #TribFest25

Three school district leaders at The Texas Tribune Festival said the Texas Education Agency’s reliance on state takeovers to improve academic performance threatens local control. #TribFest25

Watch live: Abby Phillip of CNN talks about her new book, "A Dream Deferred: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power," with CBS Sunday Morning contributor Mark Whitaker. #TribFest25 www.texastribune.org/2025/11/15/t...

Watch live: U.S. Sen. @amyklobuchar.com sits down with @alivitali.bsky.social, the host of MSNBC’s Way Too Early. #TribFest25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1pi...

Google announced a $40 billion investment in Texas in the form of three new data centers in West Texas and the Panhandle. It's the latest multi-billion dollar investment in Texas by tech companies racing to build infrastructure to support advanced AI.

At The Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, candidates from both sides of the aisle pitched themselves as the best person to take the place of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. #TribFest25

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office filed a rare lawsuit against a Texas agency. The lawsuit seeks to end three university work-study programs that Paxton’s office claims unconstitutionally discriminates against religious students.

Watch live: Former U.S. Attorney General @ericholder.bsky.social sits down with @profmmurray.bsky.social of NYU Law School. #TribFest25

At a Texas Tribune Festival event, former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred called out state Rep. James Talarico for accepting donations from casino magnate and megadonor Miriam Adelson while railing against billionaires’ influence in politics. #TribFest25

New: U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said at a Texas Tribune Festival event that he hoped to form a statewide slate with Colin Allred, Beto O’Rourke and James Talarico, but the group couldn’t find consensus. #TribFest25

Watch live: Former U.S. Rep. @adamkinzinger.substack.com sits down with @samsteindc.bsky.social of The Bulwark. #TribFest25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTp...

Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25

Watch live: U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy sits down with @samsteindc.bsky.social of The Bulwark. #TribFest25

@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social: "Do you think that JD Vance is a fascist?" @petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "If it's convenient for him to be a fascist, he'll be a fascist." #TribFest2025

Watch live: Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation @petebuttigieg.bsky.social sits down with @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social of The Atlantic. #TribFest25

Texas State Board of Education advisers signal push to the right in social studies overhaul

At a Texas Tribune Festival panel, Texas Democratic candidates pitch themselves as the best to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott. #TribFest25

Watch live: Maryland Governor @govwesmoore.bsky.social sits down with former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. #TribFest25

At a Texas Tribune Festival event, former U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton said that President Donald Trump lacks a coherent strategy in foreign policy and risks international confidence in the U.S. #TribFest25

Texas A&M regents preview course review after gender identity instruction controversy

Watch live: Minnesota Governor @governorwalz.mn.gov sits down with Jennifer Palmieri, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and co-host of Showtime’s The Circus. #TribFest25 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeCl...

New: Texas House Democrats who voted for Republican Speaker Dustin Burrows in January said at a Texas Tribune Festival panel that they aren’t ready to commit to supporting him again in 2027. #TribFest25

Watch live: Michael Curry, the former Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church sits down with @ruthgraham.bsky.social of The New York Times. #TribFest25

The EPA on Wednesday granted Texas permission to authorize companies to capture and store carbon dioxide underground. Critics have said that state regulators have a history of being too lax on the oil and gas industry.

John Bolton at #TribFest2025: “Interns didn’t get paid very much ... when I was an intern in the Nixon White House, so I like to say I emerged from that job poor but unindicted. And unfortunately, I didn’t make it out of the Trump administration that way, but we’ll see.”

Watch live: Former U.S. National Security Advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton sits down with historian @vermontgmg.bsky.social. #TribFest25

As part of the spending deal to end the government shutdown, federal lawmakers approved a provision that would criminalize almost all consumable hemp products nationwide.

New: Mike Collier, a two-time Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, announced on Thursday that he is again running to be the state’s second-in-command — but this time as an independent.

U.S. House OKs funding deal to reopen government with support from Texas Republicans.

Texas lawmakers on Thursday will hold their first hearing to review speech on public universities. The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.

Texans over the age of 45 are among those statewide who are seeing the highest rise in their premiums this open enrollment, according to health policy experts.

New: Tarrant County GOP Chair Bo French announced on Wednesday that he is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, the regulatory state agency that oversees Texas’ oil and gas industry.

President Donald Trump has endorsed Gov. Greg Abbott for reelection, applauding his support in redrawing congressional redistricting maps in Texas earlier this year.

Kate Rogers, the former president of the Alamo Trust, joins this week's episode of TribCast to talk about her decision to step down from running the Texas’ most beloved historic site amid political pressure from Republican state leaders.

New: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Harris County for allocating county funds to programs that help undocumented people get access to legal support.

Jolt Initiative, a nonprofit that aims to increase civic participation among Latinos, is suing AG Ken Paxton to block his efforts to shut them down. Paxton accused the group of an “unlawful voter registration scheme,” but a legal filing provided no evidence that it registers noncitizens to vote.

New: Lubbock Republican Rep. Jodey Arrington announced his retirement after a decade of service at the U.S. House. Arrington will serve out his term, which ends in January 2027, but will not seek reelection.

Citing a new state law, Attorney General Ken Paxton told four cities to cancel planned tax hikes. But La Marque leaders say their tax increase is critical to keeping the city afloat financially.

Texas has recorded more than 3,500 cases of whooping cough so far this year, 10 times the number in 2023. The uptick has coincided with a decline in vaccination rates for whooping cough, according to disease experts who urge the best way to control the spread is to get vaccinated.

New: The families of five Camp Mystic campers and two counselors who died during the July 4 flooding filed a lawsuit against the camp on Monday, alleging that camp officials’ failure to evacuate the camp caused their children’s deaths.

The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.

Heart O’ the Hills Camp for Girls will relocate several miles north of its original location along the Guadalupe River after it suffered serious damage during the deadly July 4 flooding, according to a statement from new camp management.

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A draft of the first-of-its-kind Texas Department of Transportation plan released in October outlines the need for boosted public transportation in rural and smaller urban areas as well as a greater array of travel options, including rail, between the state’s major urban centers.

Rep. Al Green switches congressional districts in bid for reelection.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Galveston ISD for not displaying Ten Commandments in classrooms.

A former middle school teacher who served as New Mexico’s secretary of education will oversee the Fort Worth ISD as Texas takes control.