Jill Ament
Texas Standard Producer-
Testimony has not been public because lawmakers say they’re taking a “quasi-judicial” approach to the hearings.
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The governor has maintained that the information he initially shared with the public after the Uvalde shooting came from law enforcement officials and that he was “misled.”
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Will we be getting a break from the heat anytime soon? That depends on how you define “soon.”
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Access to high-quality, affordable child care is becoming scarcer, according to new data from Children at Risk, a nonprofit dedicated to research into child poverty and inequity in Texas.
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The U.S. government has declared that the Houston native, who has been in Russian custody since February, was wrongfully detained.
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Keri Blakinger’s new memoir details an early figure skating career with an abrupt end, her subsequent spiral into heroin addiction and a felony arrest and prison term in New York.
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Mike Collier says he thinks Democrats and Republicans in the legislature can agree on universal background checks and red flag laws.
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The governor has ordered Senate and House leaders to create committees examining topics related to school and firearm safety but stopped short of calling a special legislative session over mass shootings.
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“What would make educators feel safer is for our lawmakers to actually listen to what we have to say … so that I don’t have to go into school every single day and worry about ‘is today the day?'”
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For the first time, we’re able to see what a black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy looks like, thanks in part to Alex Tetarenko, an astrophysics researcher with Texas Tech University who contributed to the discovery.