News - Texas news
Yesterday
Newly formed Texas disaster preparedness and flooding committee will visit Kerr County
Posted 10:08 AM 7/16/2025 by Atirikta Kumar, The Texas Tribune
"Newly formed Texas disaster preparedness and flooding committee will visit Kerr County" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans &mdash (More)
7/14/2025
As Trump looks to net five GOP seats through Texas redistricting, Democrats grasp for response
Posted 4:21 PM 7/15/2025 by GABBY BIRENBAUM AND OWEN DAHLKAMP | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
Officials say at least 100 people still missing after July Fourth floods; recovery efforts could take months
Attorney General Ken Paxton requests death row inmate Robert Roberson be executed Oct. 16
How a small East Texas town turned a devastating tornado into funding for sirens
Mental health programs could bear the brunt of $600M federal cuts to Texas schools
7/10/2025
Trump tours Texas flood damage as the disaster tests his pledge to do away with FEMA
Posted 2:18 PM 7/11/2025 by SEAN MURPHY and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents fast enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.
"The search for the (More)
Search for flood victims slowed by mountains of debris as thousands descend on Kerr County to assist
Can sirens help save lives in the next flood? Yes, but there’s more to it.
The floods swept away a young couple and their friends. Searching for them brought their families together.
Inside the negotiations on Trump’s GOP megabill, from the Lubbock lawmaker whose name is on the legislation
7/9/2025
US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north in Mexico
Posted 1:40 PM 7/10/2025 by JOHN HANNA Associated Press
The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.
Mexico's president was critical Thursday, suggesting that the U.S. is exaggerating the threat to its beef industry from the (More)