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After COVID in Texas, the state is less prepared for the next pandemic

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A drive-thru testing site at the beginning of the covid 19 outbreak.

Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.

Texas bill coming after online abortion medication

by Shefali Luthra The 19th

March 15, 2025

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The 43-page measure, introduced Friday, may be the most meaningful attempt this year to block the ordering and mailing of abortion medication.

South Texas immigration detention center with capacity for 2,400 people to reopen

by Alejandro Serrano

March 6, 2025

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A federal immigration detention center in South Texas previously used to hold families is being reopened by the Trump administration after former President Joe Biden closed it and ended the practice of detaining families.

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The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley is among the largest in the country with a capacity to detain up to 2,400 people. The Biden

The Biden administration shuttered the Dilley facility last year because of high operating costs. It’s expected to hold immigrant families under the Trump administration.

Part of pro-Palestinian student art exhibit at UNT removed amid antisemitism complaints by state lawmakers

by Jessica Priest

March 5, 2025

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University of north texas art exhibit canceled

Five GOP lawmakers who targeted the exhibit also called for the cancellation of the “Palestinian Children and the Politics of Genocide” lecture, which is still scheduled.

Texas A&M University bans drag shows from its universities

by Jessica Priest

February 28, 2025

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The move potentially sets up a new First Amendment fight between students and university administrators.

First death reported in West Texas Measles outbreak—a child

by Jayme Lozano Carver

February 26, 2025

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More than 120 people across nine counties have been infected during the largest Texas outbreak in 30 years.

Texas wants the NCAA to start ‘sex-screening’ its student athletes

by Orion Rummler

February 21, 2025

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Caricature of texas attorney general ken paxton

A lawsuit filed by the state comes as more women athletes are being scrutinized for their height, athletic ability and physical characteristics as evidence that they are transgender.