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With Election Day fast approaching, just one debate between candidates in a statewide race is on the calendar.
The last U.S. Senate race in Texas to go without a debate was in 2000. Gov. Greg Abbott, meanwhile, debated his Democratic opponents in each of his last three campaigns.
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Texas passed the Life of the Mother Act in 2025, aiming to clarify the narrow medical exception to the state's abortion ban. Advocates are still working to spread the word.
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Laws intended to give survivors of childhood sexual abuse more time to seek justice have had an unexpected effect on the insurance industry. Texas childcare providers say they are paying more for coverage — and sometimes getting less.
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Texas patients and doctors will no longer have to pay taxes to access and share medical records. State comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order Tuesday abolishing taxes on healthcare technology systems.
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Lawyers for Jamaal Howard are asking Gov. Greg Abbott for a 30-day reprieve after two lethal injections failed to kill Christa Pike, leaving her hospitalized.
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Longtime East Texas A&M broadcast professor Dr. Robert “Bob” Sanders, who taught generations of radio and television students during 34 years in Commerce, has died at 83.
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NPR's Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal conversations.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.
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U.S. authorities added new torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ramping up pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking allegations.
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Christa Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1996.
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In the frontline town of Oleshky, residents can't get out and food and medical supplies can't get in.