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Beto O'Rourke's grassroots campaign in 254 counties represents a major deviation from the political playbook employed by the majority of Texas Democrats over the last 20 years. Most campaigns concentrate on the state's major population centers. Full Story
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The U.S. Justice Department said late Friday it agrees the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be terminated. That court filing came after Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit last month to end the 2012 program. Full Story
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Nearly a month after a Texas high school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott has launched a digital technology to make it easier for Texans to report unusual activity in schools and communities within minutes. Full Story
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The money collected will go to a “dedicated testing evidence account” controlled by the state comptroller. The Governor's Criminal Justice Division will then distribute the funds to qualifying crime labs and agencies on an application basis. Full Story
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The lawsuit filed against the Santa Fe shooting suspect's parents aims to hold gun owners responsible for the way they store their firearms around their troubled children. Experts say it fits into a nationwide pattern of gun liability cases that aspire to keep gun owners and manufacturers accountable through fear of high-cost lawsuits. Full Story
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As the U.S. Supreme Court ponders a Texas redistricting case, a coalition of voting and civil rights groups is pushing to establish an independent commission in which citizens, rather than lawmakers, would draw the state’s political maps. Full Story
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The number of family units who were apprehended or turned themselves in to border agents on the southwest border during the current fiscal year dipped slightly. But the number of families caught entering the country illegally at the southwest border last month increased sixfold compared with the same month in 2017. Full Story
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In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and reporter Emma Platoff. Full Story
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Castro said he plans to file legislation after U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley on Sunday was denied access to a Brownsville facility that is housing unaccompanied immigrant children. Full Story
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Justices made the decision months after the teenager, who was in federal custody in Brownsville, terminated her pregnancy. Federal officials argued they didn't have time to appeal a lower court's ruling that cleared the way for the procedure. Full Story
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The state law that defines residency requirements is hard to enforce. Full Story
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Trump and Cruz discussed the pardon while riding from the airport to the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas last month. Full Story
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The move from the Texas Supreme Court comes more than a year after an Austin-based appeals court said the agency must reveal a 2014 supplier of lethal injection drugs. Full Story
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They can see the country they once served from a park in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. But a number of men who once wore a military uniform are barred from coming back after being deported to their native country. Full Story
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A coalition of Texas-based attorneys filed an emergency request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to order the United States to end the practice of family separation at the border. Full Story
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Texas groups representing Latino residents are among those who are suing the Trump administration over the addition of a question about citizenship to the 2020 census questionnaire. Full Story
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The poll was conducted in the days immediately following a deadly school shooting in Southeast Texas. Full Story
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In El Paso, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union and representatives from the Border Network for Human Rights said a lawsuit that seeks to end family separations at the border could hinge, in part, on the case of a woman detained in 2017. Full Story
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The doctored photo purported to show Goldberg wearing a shirt that showed President Donald Trump shooting himself. Full Story
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The new poll comes about a month after the same firm called the race "too close to call." Full Story
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