Texas Republicans are increasingly focusing on the Muslim faith, even proposing to regulate Islamic practices in the Legislature. Dallas-based New York Times reporter Ruth Graham joined NTX Now to talk about their look into the rise of Islamophobia in Texas.
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Commerce City Council meeting discusses budget, tax rate, water conservation plan, conditional use permits, equipment purchases.
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The non-profit Soup Angels works to feed unhoused Dallas neighbors and animals through homemade, comforting soup.
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City Council and County commissioner's update for Commerce, Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, Caddo Mills, Quinlan, Cooper, Emory, Hutn County, Hopkins County, and Delta County
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UT Austin has proposed big changes to how future students meet graduation requirements as questions persist about a new Center for Humanities.
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Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state's public schools to display the Ten Commandments. Monday's petition tees up a case that could set a new national standard for the limits of religious expression in classrooms. Posters with the Ten Commandments began going up almost a year ago in classrooms across Texas, a state that educates about 5.5 million students. An appeals court earlier this year cleared the way for the Texas law and one in Louisiana, and similar laws have been passed in Arkansas and Alabama.
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Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.
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Critics say it is the reason why more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations, in the form of widespread hunger strikes.
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Gulf countries react to protracted Iran war, U.S. debt tops $40 trillion, U.S. oil companies sign first deals with Venezuela.
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Tech billionaires in California are fighting a proposed one-time wealth tax. A Google co-founder is leading the charge against the tax, which would generate revenue for health-care services.
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Chinese property developer Hui Ka Yan has been sentenced to life in prison. The decision marks a milestone in Evergrande's saga after it collapsed with more than $300 billion in liabilities.