A South Texas woman who was arrested on murder charges in 2022 after using medication to terminate her pregnancy has alleged new details about her case against a local sheriff and prosecutors, claiming they violated her constitutional rights. Her Aug. 12 court filing comes as the debate over medicated abortion is heating up in Texas,…
A longtime Democratic House lawmaker from Texas said Thursday he won’t run for another term if a Republican redistricting plan pushed by President Trump stands as law in the state. The announcement from 78-year-old Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who has served in Congress since 1995, means Texas Democrats appear to have avoided a potentially messy congressional primary between…
A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk to face a proposed class-action lawsuit from voters who say they were misled into signing a petition in the buildup to the 2024 election by promises of a chance to win $1 million in a daily giveaway. The lawsuit, brought in the U.S. District Court for the Western…
Families of Camp Mystic flood victims plead for change at Texas hearing – CBS News Watch CBS News Lawmakers in Texas Wednesday heard from the families of those who died in the July 4th flood at Camp Mystic. More than two dozen campers and counselors were among 135 people killed in the floods. Jason Allen…
Elon Musk was ordered on Wednesday by a federal judge to face a lawsuit by voters accusing the world’s richest person of defrauding them into signing a petition to support the US Constitution for a chance to win his US$1 million-a-day giveaway. US District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas said Jacqueline McAferty plausibly alleged…
A Delta Air Lines flight lost a portion of its wing while flying over Texas on Wednesday night. Delta Flight 1893 was flying from Orlando International to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] “We felt it was bad turbulence. The plane was shaking,” passenger Shanila Arif told CNN….
Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement. Texas is the third state where courts have blocked recent laws about putting the Ten Commandments in schools. A group of families…
Good morning. And strap in if you own major tech stocks. The tech-heavy Nasdaq closed yesterday down 1.4% in the biggest one-day drop in three weeks. Nvidia dropped 3.5%. Palantir sunk 9.4%. Arm was down 5%. AMD was down 5.4%. The pain wasn’t limited to one exchange or market, either. NYSE-listed Oracle was down 5.9%….
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats who ended a walkout found themselves shadowed by law enforcement officers to keep them from repeating the protest that stalled Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts and fulfill President Donald Trump‘s desire to reshape U.S. House maps. Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the…
House Democrats convened a virtual call Wednesday amid an escalating national redistricting controversy that could have widespread implications on next year’s midterm elections. The call, hosted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, featured former Attorney General Eric Holder, chair of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York was…