Tag: Texas
Judge orders release of family after prolonged detention and reported neglect...
Federal ruling finds continued detention risks constitutional violation after nearly a year of confinement, medical emergencies, and allegations of worsening conditions at Texas center.
Three-year-old allegedly abused in federal custody as Trump policies prolong detention...
A lawsuit alleges a toddler was sexually abused while held for months in ORR custody as stricter federal procedures increased detention times for immigrant children.
After a hospital trip, ICE removed a 2-month-old from CoreCivic’s Dilley...
A Univision reporter located Juan Nicolás in Mexico after ICE removed the 2-month-old and his family from a CoreCivic-run Texas detention center, as lawmakers and advocates clash with DHS over medical care and oversight.
A shock to Texas politics as Democrats capture a long-held GOP...
Labor leader Taylor Rehmet’s upset victory in a Trump-carried Texas district sends shockwaves through Texas politics.
Trump says America’s oil industry is cleaner than other countries’. New...
Does Texas, the heart of America’s oil and gas industry, tell a different story?
Texas Republicans push Trump-backed map to entrench power and silence voters...
A rare mid-decade gerrymander in Texas, championed by Donald Trump, sparks lawsuits, protests, and warnings of a nationwide redistricting arms race.
After local agencies release Uvalde shooting records, calls continue for Texas...
Local records released this week—after a years-long lawsuit—affirm previous reporting about law enforcement’s flawed response to Texas’ deadliest school shooting.
Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like...
Although it had been only seven years since Hurricane Harvey, legislators now prioritized the state’s water and drought crisis over flooding needs.
The Texas flash flood is a preview of the chaos to...
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled...
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
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Women leaders and Trump 2.0.