"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz lied to Americans about widespread voter fraud that never existed," the Editorial Board writes. "He should resign and deliver Texans from the shame of calling him our senator."
#BREAKING
: Exxon Mobil plans to prohibit LGBTQ and Black Lives Matters flags from being flown outside its offices, prompting a furious backlash from Houston-based employees.
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg went into Love Park Community Center Tuesday morning to cast a ballot for her own primary race — only to be told someone had already voted in her name, according to spokesperson Michael Kolenc.
THREAD: As former President Donald Trump prepares to host a rally near Corpus Christi, Texas this weekend, the city of El Paso is still waiting for him to pay back the more than $500,000 he owes for hosting his 2019 rally there.
THREAD: While ripping up the floorboards of an old Texas school building to create a new community center, contractors uncovered a purse filled with memories and mementos dating back to 1959. 👜
State troopers ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott to inspect every commercial truck coming from Mexico earlier this month found zero drugs, weapons or any type of contraband, according to data released by the Department of Public Safety to The Texas Tribune.
THREAD: In Texas, it’s not just women who are fired up about access to abortion and registering to vote in large numbers following this summer's historic Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade.
Texas college student Jimmy Amisial was visiting his home country of Haiti in 2017 when he found a baby, abandoned, covered in ants and lying on top of garbage.
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@elizTrovall
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After kicking off with one performance for more than 200 men at the 701 San Jacinto building,
@kanyewest
ducked down into the underground tunnel and turned up in the main Baker Street jail to do a second show for a smaller crowd of women.
DEVELOPING: At least 8 people are dead & dozens more injured after a sold-out crowd of roughly 50,000 surged during rapper
@trvisXX
's performance at
@astroworldfest
, overwhelming security forces and resulting in one of the deadliest concerts in US history.
What was in the purse?
Exactly what you’d expect of a young teenager: a diary, a comb, a nail file set and even photos of her father, sisters and male crushes.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the federal government had to delay distribution of emergency relief supplies after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas because the White House could not reach state leaders to get the major disaster declaration request needed.
As Southern Baptist leaders reject reforms, sexual abuse continues to spread. Read part 1 of "Abuse of Faith," our exclusive investigative series launching Sunday, Feb. 10:
Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.
Since 1870, Democrats have held the 34th District in the Rio Grande Valley. But that all changed when
@MayraFlores2022
won a special election Tuesday night, soon making her the first congresswoman born in Mexico
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@kinhuiphotog
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@caylajharris
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UPDATE: The National Butterfly Center on the Texas border is closing “for the immediate future” after conspiracy-fueled threats against the center escalated in recent days.
From the Editorial Board: Take our advice, senator, and resign. Seems like you could use a break and we could, too, from an ineffective politician who, even in crisis, puts his personal itinerary before the needs of Texans.
DEVELOPING: Melissa Lucio, a South Texas mother of 14 who was days away from her execution date, has been granted a stay from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
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@beccaghennes
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@innocence
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Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande and not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a DPS trooper.
🧵 In protest against Sen. Ted Cruz's “abominable” response to the Uvalde massacre, Texas teachers marched outside his office in Austin, chanting “shame on you.”
Cruz and other Texas Republicans have focused post-Uvalde discussions on school “hardening.”
Someone in Houston has some strong feelings about CenterPoint Energy.
As of Wednesday morning, 1.3 million customers are still without power after Hurricane Beryl.
📷️: Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle photographer
@NRA
@coomerchron
@donmclean
will not perform at this weekend's NRA Convention in Houston.
🗣️"In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week." ⬇️
WATCH: Shelley Luther, a Texas GOP candidate and former teacher, said transgender children make her uncomfortable, and she complained that their classmates weren’t allowed to make fun of them.
THREAD: For 17 years, Steve Goertz commented on every single article
@andrewdansby
wrote.
Separated by a generation but connected via email, their exchange continued until a few weeks ago. Steve had died of the cancer he fought for years.
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@GettyImages
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#BREAKING
Multiple performers are pulling out of this weekend's
@NRA
convention in Houston in the wake of the mass school shooting in Uvalde.
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@coomerchron
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BREAKING: Texans are again being asked to scale back their power consumption after six power generators went offline Friday, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
A grand jury indicted an ex-
@houstonpolice
captain after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun to his head because he thought he was committing voter fraud in the run-up to the 2020 election.
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@dylmcguinness
📷 Buster Dean
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🧵 Gov. Greg Abbott's lead is widening over Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke, according to a Spectrum News/Siena College poll of likely voters released Thursday.
Instead, Beto O'Rourke said the thing that most of us are thinking: the responsibility for this terrible tragedy lies with Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Patrick, Sen. Cruz and the rest of their party that has been bought and paid for by the NRA, a reader writes.
A new analysis from political data and polling firm TargetSmart found that Texas’ new voter registrants are evenly split between men and women, and they are younger and more Democratic than before the June ruling.
A wave of protests have emerged in the trucking community after a judge handed out an unusual, hefty 110-year sentence to a truck driver who was convicted in a fiery crash that killed four people and injured several others.
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@mo_unique_
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@AP
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#BREAKING
: Houston city officials released the ages of the eight people who were killed as a crowd surged at the Astroworld Festival, including one person who was 14 and another who was 16.
🧵In Bellville, about an hour or so northwest of Houston, Trump Burger is your standard burger joint with the added twist of being a monument to former U.S. President Donald Trump.
A home in a Spring neighborhood without power had a message to send.
Are you still without power? Let us know below.
📸: Jason Fochtman/ Houston Chronicle photographer
Several dozen Texas teachers, school employees and union officials argued Tuesday at a protest in Austin that teachers should be focused on students and the curriculum, not target practice or how to stem the bleeding on a child with a gunshot wound.
Democratic candidate for governor Beto O’Rourke left no doubt during a San Antonio campaign stop last week that he’s going to be far more aggressive going after Gov. Greg Abbott than he was against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.
“You have to lay there and wait and have your life in the hands of an ethics committee, or a doctor that wants to help but can't." Texas abortion laws led to agonizing 3-day delay for woman's treatment
1/ Five years ago, she said her teachers harassed and disciplined her for sitting out the Pledge of Allegiance.
Today, she’s $90,000 richer after
@AmericanAtheist
helped her sue
@KleinISD
.
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@beccaghennes
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3/ Luther’s comments drew rebuke from Equality Texas, which advocates for the rights of gay and transgender Texans. The group’s CEO said all Texas school children should “feel a sense of belonging in school so they can focus on academic success.”
#Editorial
: The WNBA is expanding and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta is interested in reviving the Comets, one of the best basketball teams the city's ever seen.
🧵Last month, retired Texas couple George and Kathleen Rowe were sued by their homeowners association for feeding ducks 🦆. The requested relief? Up to $250,000, plus lawyer’s fees and a court order to never do it again.
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@RASchuetz
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@egconley