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A Texas state district judge has found TikTok liable for deceiving parents about platform safety and exposing minors to explicit material, marking the first time a state has established liability against the social media company.
Gov. Greg Abbott has halted approvals of new data centers statewide pending an audit by ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission, as a $14 billion Meta campus rises in El Paso.
Abbott has ordered work on three-year bachelor's degrees. Hinojosa would fire the education commissioner and end STAAR. Texas votes in November.
U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled Aug. 25 that Senate Bill 12 is an unconstitutional restriction on speech and permanently barred the attorney general from enforcing it. Ken Paxton says he will appeal immediately.
The ACLU asked the justices Monday to review the state law requiring a display in every public school classroom, weeks after Texas classrooms opened for the year.
League City's council voted to put its 55 license plate reader cameras on the November ballot, a first-of-its-kind test of where Texas voters stand on a technology now running in cities across the state.
A federal judge in Galveston declined Sunday to halt the state's ban on delta-8, delta-10 and other hemp-derived THC products. The broader lawsuit is still pending, and possession is now chargeable as a state jail felony.
The new Terafab plant will create 3,000 jobs and produce chips for Tesla and SpaceX.
The two U.S. Senate nominees have put out competing economic agendas ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. Paxton's centers on federal tax deductions; Talarico's on wages, medical debt and repealing tax cuts for top earners.
In an interview released Friday, the president said Texas was wrong to hold up data center approvals. Gov. Greg Abbott's office said fewer than 10 percent of operators had supplied the power and water data the state asked for.
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered ERCOT and the PUC to audit power and water use before approving new data centers. Dallas-Fort Worth has more in the pipeline than anywhere else in the state.
The former Fort Worth mayor represented Texas' 12th District for nearly 28 years and became the first Republican woman to chair House Appropriations. She died Sunday.
TXSE finished its phased launch Friday, opening all National Market System symbols for trading from its Dallas headquarters. Corporate listings are planned for the fourth quarter.
A SmartAsset study ranks Plano as the second safest big city in the U.S., while Dallas falls short.
An SMU and Texas A&M study models a 33 percent drop in Dallas-Fort Worth traffic delays under full autonomous adoption. Meanwhile Texas has become the country's proving ground for driverless freight, with the first commercial routes already running on I-45.
Governor Greg Abbott attended the grand opening of Bob's House of Hope in Justin, described as the nation's first safe house exclusively for adult male survivors of human trafficking, and pointed to newly signed laws that stiffen penalties for traffickers.
Governor Greg Abbott reappointed all ten judges of the Texas Business Court to new two-year terms beginning September 1, keeping the specialized commercial court's full inaugural bench in place.
Twenty-four grants to graduate medical and nursing schools will expand emergency and trauma care training partnerships between hospitals and medical programs across Texas.
The Texas Secretary of State will host a one-day apostille service event in Houston on August 26, 2026, marking the first satellite location for this authentication service.
The Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT are adopting measures requiring data centers to cover transmission costs and contribute to residential bill relief following Governor Abbott's directive.
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