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Rep. Tony Gonzales attacks primary opponent amid reporting of his affair with aide who died by suicide
Posted 3:13 PM 2/18/2026 by GABBY BIRENBAUM | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, blamed his GOP opponent Brandon Herrera for politicizing the death of his former staffer on Wednesday, a day after the (More)
2/16/2026
Momentum is building to meet electricity demand in Texas with small nuclear reactors
Posted 3:59 PM 2/17/2026 by CAMILA MAIA
Less than three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced the creation of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group, Texas has become one of the main testing grounds in the (More)
2/15/2026
Attorney General Paxton launches investigations into three Texas school districts over students protesting ICE
Posted 6:21 PM 2/16/2026 by ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched investigations into three school (More)
2/14/2026
Comptroller candidate Don Huffines’ family owns former Epstein ranch in New Mexico
Posted 10:10 AM 2/15/2026 by Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune
The family of Don Huffines, a former Republican Texas senator who is now campaigning to become the state’s comptroller, bought the disgraced Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch in New Mexico after the child sex trafficker and molester died.
“Four years after Mr. Epstein’s (More)
2/13/2026
A federal tool to check voter citizenship keeps making mistakes. It led to confusion in Texas.
Posted 9:37 AM 2/14/2026 by Jen Fifield and Zach Despart, The Texas Tribune
When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county's voter roll as potential noncitizens, she was taken aback.
Lennon, who’d run elections in Boone County, Missouri, for seven years, had heard the tool (More)
2/12/2026
Texans are demanding their local governments push pause on data centers. Can they?
Posted 1:32 PM 2/13/2026 by Berenice Garcia and The Waco Bridge, The Texas Tribune
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From Amarillo to Waco, College Station to (More)
2/11/2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Snapchat over accusations of inappropriate content and addictiveness
Posted 9:06 AM 2/12/2026 by STEPHEN SIMPSON
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday sued (More)