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The district's COVID-19 order for all employees remains on pause despite the ruling against the AG's office, which sought an injunction.

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service announced in May that it would expand its definition of sexual discrimination to include gender identity and sexual orientation. Paxton and other attorneys general are suing in response.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its judgment Tuesday in the Mississippi case that revoked a constitutional right to abortion. That means Texas’ “trigger law” severely limiting the procedure will soon take effect.

The bar, which licenses lawyers and offers training sessions, is suing Paxton in an attempt to sanction him for trying block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.

The Texas attorney general would be the one to hold True the Vote accountable on allegations that it swindled a $2.5 million donor. But the nonprofit’s founder has been a friend and an ally.

The Texas attorney general would be the one to hold True the Vote accountable on allegations that it swindled a $2.5 million donor. But the nonprofit’s founder has been a friend and an ally.

The state of Texas sued the federal government Thursday after the Biden administration said federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life, [San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed the new guidance would "transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argues the Biden administration is violating the state’s “sovereign interest” by reassuring the nation’s doctors they can perform abortions in medical emergencies.

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration over federal guidance that requires hospitals provide abortions to save patients in life-threatening emergencies.

Three days before the Texas lawsuit, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told hospitals and physicians they have to provide abortions in medical emergencies.

Texas AG Ken Paxton claimed the president 'seeks to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic.'

Brandy Bottone was recently driving down Central Expressway in Dallas when she was stopped by a sheriff at an HOV checkpoint to see whether drivers had at least one passenger in their vehicles.

The Texas attorney general said that the suit was politically motivated and that the state bar has no authority to police the decisions of his office.

The fight between Texas and New Mexico over the management of one of the longest rivers in North America could be nearing an end.

More than halfway through a tumultuous primary season, voters have rendered verdicts in a number of contests, many of which featured candidates arguing they best represented a continuation of policies favored by former President Donald Trump.

Red states and blue states are further apart than ever politically.

Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order allowing the procedure to resume in some cases.

On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it doubted that any abortions were now being provided in the state.

On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it doubted that any abortions were now being provided in the state.

Clinics are shutting down abortion services in Texas after the Supreme Court in the nation's second-largest state blocked an order that briefly allowed the procedure to resume in some cases.

The high court said a cap on power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions that forces a transition to other fuels may be a “sensible” solution to the climate crisis, but that Congress did not give the Environmental Protection Agency the broad authority to make such requirements. Texas was one of 17 states that joined in the suit.

The Trump administration created the Migrant Protection Protocols, also called “remain in Mexico,” in 2019 before the Biden administration canceled it in 2021. The ruling sends the case back to a Texas federal court.

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

Paxton has said he’ll appeal a district court judge’s freeze on enforcement, while plaintiffs are seeking a more permanent relief.

A ban in effect before Roe v. Wade cannot be used, as threatened last week by Attorney General Ken Paxton, according to a judge’s ruling Tuesday. However, the stopgap measure will, at most, extend abortion access in the state for two months.

Experts said the ruling is only likely to extend the availability of abortions in the state by another two months.

Texas abortion providers and abortion funds ceased operations in the state on Friday for fear of being criminally charged under state laws that pre-date Roe v. Wade.

Eleven hours earlier, news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled to overturn the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, paving the way for states like Texas to essentially ban all abortions. With the signal from Paxton that prosecutors can pursue abortion-related charges, attention has turned to district attorneys across the state. It’s why some Valley residents have, instead, opted for a self-managed abortion which can be done with medication. When people go to a clinic seeking an abortion, one option is a surgical abortion but most often they obtain a medication abortion with the use of two medications — misoprostol and mifepristone. And while the fight continues throughout the community, she doesn’t know if there will be a solution.

Texas clinics immediately stopped providing abortions Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Then, they had to tell their patients.

Friday was joyful for activists who have spent decades fighting to end abortion, and now they want to see abortion restrictions spread nationwide.

Local leaders share their thoughts on the U.S. Supreme Court's overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Texas's "trigger law" bans abortions after 30 days, but an advisory from the Attorney General prompted clinics to stop providing abortions Friday.

The one clinic that provides abortion services in the Rio Grande Valley ceased providing abortions on Friday following the Supreme Court ruling overturning abortion rights.

Attorney General Ken Paxton declared on Twitter that he would be closing his office and...

After a landmark decision from the Supreme Court of the United States on Friday ended the constitutional protection of the right to an abortion, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that he’s sending all agency staff home early and moving to make the day an annual agency holiday.

A landmark decision on Friday from the Supreme Court of the United State sent shockwaves through the country. The court decided that abortion is not a constitutionally protected right.

Attorney General Ken Paxton declared on Twitter that he would be closing his office and “making it an annual holiday” in honor of the Supreme Court decision.

Cruz called Justice Clarence Thomas, who wants the court to reconsider same-sex marriage and access to contraceptives, a 'happy warrior.'

Dan Crenshaw called the moment 'historic.'

A Texas woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud, including counts for illegal voting, unlawful possession of a mail ballot, and running a vote-harvesting operation.

From a stolen election to the “sexualization” of children to the liberal talking points spouted by mainstream media, activists at the Texas Republican Convention said they felt besieged.

How about a modest, commonsense solution to gun management? Not the hysterical right-wing bogeyman of confiscation of guns, deprivation of rights or border invasions.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.

A decades-long search by a Florida woman and her extended family linked to an unsolved murder case has resulted in the woman finding her missing granddaughter, now grown with no previous knowledge of her tragic history.

A federal lawsuit claims Llano County leaders perpetrated a coordinated censorship campaign in how they limited the books that taxpayers could access.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

The mother of one of the teens said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Gov. Abbott issued his directive.

Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports.

Rather than talk about guns, Texas GOP officials would rather obsess about drag shows for kids, Twitter bots and a sort-of apology from NASCAR.

State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy.

Employees at multiple Northside Independent School District campuses have told the KSAT 12 Defenders in recent weeks that administrators relentlessly pressured them to vote on a May bond measure, tracked whether they had cast a ballot and in one instance threatened discipline if they failed to do so.

Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, is investigating Twitter over its reported user numbers.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he is investigating Twitter over its reporting of how many accounts on the platform are from bots and fake users, saying the company may be misrepresentin[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Twitter has said bots and fake users represent less than 5% of its accounts, but Paxton says the percentage may be higher. The inquiry comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is in negotiations to buy Twitter, is also raising questions about the number of fake accounts on the platform.

Leaders shouldn’t waiting for a mass shooting here

Taylor Cole Miller was at the 2010 UT Austin shooting at the campus library. He talks about why preparedness alone is not enough.

Taylor Cole Miller was at the 2010 UT Austin shooting at the campus library. He talks about why preparedness alone is not enough.

The Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers union marched to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s office in downtown Austin to push for gun reform in the wake of the Uvalde massacre.

Defenders of limitless guns are out of ideas but full of excuses.

In this edition: Lessons from all of May's primaries, redistricting madness drags into Memorial Day weekend, and the director of Justice Democrats lays out their new strategy to replace centrists.

Cruz says gun control reform is merely propaganda.

The settlement is part of a $19.2 million lawsuit between the company and 40 state attorney generals for alleged false advertising.

The state bar is suing Paxton over his petition to the Supreme Court to block Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

Paxton had been under investigation for the complaint since 2021 and had called attempts to investigate him a ploy by “leftists” in the state bar association.

The State Bar of Texas sued Wednesday to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud, raising a new legal danger for the Republican the day after he secured his party's nomination for a third term. The state bar asked a Dallas-area court to impose unspecified discipline on the state's top lawyer, alleging that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory was “dishonest.” The formal accusation of professional misconduct makes Paxton one of the highest-profile attorneys to face a potential threat to their law license for a role in former President Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat.

Abbott was publicly criticized by his Democratic opponent for governor. Abbot also said he wasn’t sure if he would attend the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting later this week.

First-time candidate Rochelle Garza cruised to the attorney general nomination, while Mike Collier and Jay Kleberg eked out narrow runoff victories.

Republican voters really, truly, aren’t Trump zombies, but the GOP does reflect the former president’s brand of anti-democratic radicalism.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.

Here are the results to key runoff races in the Bexar County area.

As President Joe Biden vowed to enact stricter gun laws following the Uvalde shooting, top Texas Republicans worked to create distance between the shooting and potential gun restrictions.

Republican Dawn Buckingham and Democrat Jay Kleberg won their primary runoffs. The winner of November’s general election will replace George P. Bush as head of the Texas General Land Office.

The former Texas land commissioner campaigned on restoring integrity to the AG's office and hit the incumbent for his legal and ethical woes.

In a runoff primary election with George P. Bush, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pulled off a win. Paxton is embattled in legal issues but easily won over his Republican rival.

Former President Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance suffered two devastating blows when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won their primaries despite rejecting Trump’s entreaties to reverse his 2020 election loss.

In the Republican runoff for attorney general, incumbent Ken Paxton—not to mention Donald Trump—got his wish.

Bush’s defeat in the race for attorney general could mark the end of a four-generation political dynasty, and the end of an era of Texas politics that began when the first George Bush moved to Odessa in 1948.

Bush, who has served for seven years as the state’s land commissioner, campaigned on restoring integrity to the attorney general’s office and hit Paxton for his legal and ethical troubles.

State Rep. Bee Nguyen is advancing to a runoff in the Democratic primary for Georgia secretary of state.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Here's how and where you vote and what races to watch.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

Tuesday’s elections will solidify the major parties’ statewide tickets and have national political implications.

AUSTIN (AP) — Not many people charged with felony crimes go seven years without ever standing trial.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

In Alabama, former President Trump pulled his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in the Senate race.

It's been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges.

Cornyn is the most prominent Texas Republican to criticize the attorney general’s rocky record ahead of the runoff election against George P. Bush.

Paxton’s backers say they’re looking past the FBI investigation into Paxton and his felony indictment because he’s a a strong conservative advocate fighting the Biden administration.

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse.

The high court also raised questions about why the state opened these investigations in the first place, noting that the child welfare agency is not bound by directives from the governor.

The clinic had stopped accepting new patients after increased political pressure.

George P. Bush is running for attorney general as a Trump-supporting, hard-right social conservative. But voters associate his family name with the party’s moderate wing. That could hurt him in the Republican primary runoff.

Certain filters on Instagram are no longer available in Texas thanks to a lawsuit about facial recognition, according to media reports.

A handful of races that didn’t have a decisive winner during the March midterm primary election will be decided in a runoff on May 24.