Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Tag: Texas

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.

General Mills to remove dyes from products amid legal action

The probe revealed that the company was deceptively marketing its cereals as "healthy" and "nutritious" despite containing petroleum-based food coloring.

Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as...

At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.

Trump EPA pick Lee Zeldin backed by Texas fracking billionaire Tim...

Zeldin is part of the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank Dunn founded that pushes anti-climate policies.

Supreme Court refuses to hear Biden’s emergency abortion rule appeal, allowing...

This decision came on the first day of the Court’s new term and has significant implications for the legal landscape of reproductive rights across the country.

Uplifting commotion across FL & TX Senate races: Mindful backlash to...

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Study finds 13 percent rise in infant mortality in Texas following...

A new study reveals a significant increase in infant deaths in Texas after the state’s near-total abortion ban, highlighting the far-reaching consequences of restrictive abortion policies.

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Demolition of the White House East Wing. Photo: Sizzlipedia / CC BY-SA 4.0

Trump conned by his own worst enemy: himself – and the fixated lunacy of...

Thus do clear MAGA victims of an unjust economic system make themselves double marks from an even worse, more costly betrayer.
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington. Photo: Daderot

Supreme Court opens term with Boulder climate case against Exxon and Suncor

Justice Samuel Alito recused himself, which leaves open a 4-4 split that would let the Colorado ruling stand.
A pregnant woman. Photo: Elvis Huang / CC BY 3.0

Climate Change Is Becoming a Pregnancy Hazard Worldwide, Survey Finds

Extreme heat is increasingly threatening pregnant women and newborn babies, with it affecting the health of both women and infants.
A 19th-century Gray-Milne seismograph with recorder.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake just shook southeast Victoria. Here’s why we may expect more

There’s a reason why Gippsland gets so many earthquakes, compared to most of Australia.
Pigs in gestation crates. Photo: Humane Society of the United States / CC BY 3.0

Trump’s ‘New Era of Animal Welfare’ Excludes Almost All Farm Animals

The administration’s agenda expands protections for some, but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed for food in the U.S. each year.