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The Outdoor Channel ridiculed California’s solutions for “hazing” feral hogs in a social media post that resurfaced a 2022 news report while praising how Texas approached the situation.
Texas inmate Jamaal Howard was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection for the 2000 killing of convenience store clerk Vickie Swartout. His attorneys sought to halt the execution, arguing he is intellectually disabled, while the state disputed that claim; an appeal was pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
PEN America reported a record 11,982 book bans in U.S. public schools in 2025-26, with Texas alone logging over 8,100 after SB13.
A power grid system serving nearly 30 million Americans could again approach failure this summer, a local utility executive told the San Antonio Express-News. Rudy Garza, CEO of the San Antonio-owned utility company CPS…
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Republicans Pour $30,000,000 Into Ken Paxton’s Campaign During Final Stretch Of Red-State Race
Texas PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund's super political action committee backing Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, planned to drop an extra $30 million on television advertisements Friday in deep-red Texas to support Paxton's Senate bid.
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