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Red states and blue states are further apart than ever politically.

Clinics were shutting down abortion services in the nation's second-largest state Saturday after the Texas Supreme Court blocked an order allowing the procedure to resume in some cases.

On Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union said it doubted that any abortions were now being provided in the state.

Clinics are shutting down abortion services in Texas after the Supreme Court in the nation's second-largest state blocked an order that briefly allowed the procedure to resume in some cases.

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

A Texas woman pleaded guilty to voter fraud, including counts for illegal voting, unlawful possession of a mail ballot, and running a vote-harvesting operation.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

A baby who has been missing since her parents were found dead in a wooded area in Houston in 1981 has been found, Texas authorities announced.

The mother of one of the teens said her son attempted suicide and was hospitalized the day Gov. Abbott issued his directive.

Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward the Tesla billionaire’s agreed-to $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform, according to multiple news reports.

State officials across the nation have taken on Big Tech companies in the courts and state legislatures, and federal regulators have nipped at Twitter over alleged violations of users’ data privacy.

Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, is investigating Twitter over its reported user numbers.

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The state bar is suing Paxton over his petition to the Supreme Court to block Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election.

The State Bar of Texas sued Wednesday to punish state Attorney General Ken Paxton for his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud, raising a new legal danger for the Republican the day after he secured his party's nomination for a third term. The state bar asked a Dallas-area court to impose unspecified discipline on the state's top lawyer, alleging that Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory was “dishonest.” The formal accusation of professional misconduct makes Paxton one of the highest-profile attorneys to face a potential threat to their law license for a role in former President Donald Trump’s effort to delegitimize his defeat.

Republican voters really, truly, aren’t Trump zombies, but the GOP does reflect the former president’s brand of anti-democratic radicalism.

The gunman who killed 19 elementary school children and two teachers in Texas added to the state's grim recent history of mass shootings.

In a runoff primary election with George P. Bush, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pulled off a win. Paxton is embattled in legal issues but easily won over his Republican rival.

Former President Donald Trump’s crusade for vengeance suffered two devastating blows when Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won their primaries despite rejecting Trump’s entreaties to reverse his 2020 election loss.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has won the Republican primary in a bid to keep his job.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

Voters in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas and Minnesota are heading to the polls Tuesday.

In Alabama, former President Trump pulled his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks in the Senate race.

Georgia takes center stage in Tuesday’s primary elections as Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger try to fight back challengers endorsed by Donald Trump.

Not many people charged with felony crimes go seven years without ever standing trial. One of them is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. All the while, other clouds have gathered over Paxton: the FBI is investigating him over separate accusations of corruption, and the State Bar of Texas is weighing possible reprimands over his attempts to baselessly overturn the 2020 election.

Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas on Thursday blasted one of his party's top leaders back home, calling the mounting pile of accusations and legal woes Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an “embarrassment" just days before a primary runoff election. Paxton, who is within reach of winning the GOP nomination to seek a third term Tuesday, has been under state felony indictment since 2015 on securities fraud charges and is separately being investigated by the FBI after his top deputies accused him of corruption. “This is the chief law enforcement officer of the state of Texas and it’s a source of embarrassment to me that that has been unresolved,” Cornyn told reporters.

The filing escalates a battle between Paxton and industry groups representing some of the country’s most powerful social media firms, which have turned to the Supreme Court after a surprise ruling at the 5th Circuit court last week allowed the law to take effect.

The court did not rule on the merits of the investigations, only that lower courts in Texas overstepped by trying to block all cases

Gov. Greg Abbott had ordered state authorities to investigate parents who authorize gender-affirming care for transgender children for abuse.

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday that the state bar association plans to sue him over his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election based on bogus claims of fraud, raising yet another legal danger as the embattled Republican is locked in a primary runoff. Since last summer, the State Bar of Texas has been investigating complaints over Paxton's petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court to block President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. The group has not publicly filed a suit against Paxton, but it asked an Austin-area court Friday to impose unspecified discipline on a member of his staff for alleged professional misconduct in the election suit.

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From Trump's fraud claims to the obsession with 'grooming,' this November is poised to send a lot of wrong messages.

Some child welfare workers in Texas say they’re quitting over a new directive that allows abuse investigations into parents of transgender kids.

The Austin school district holds events to celebrate LGBTQIA+ students every year. Attorney General Ken Paxton says "when it comes to sex education, parents—not school districts—are in charge."

As Austin schools held Pride Week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the district was breaking state law.

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A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating parents who get gender-affirming health care for their kids.

A Texas judge is blocking the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth.

After Governor Greg Abbott called medical care for trans children “child abuse,” their families began weighing their options.

A Texas court on Wednesday tossed out the state's appeal of an order preventing child welfare officials from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager over gender-confirming care the youth received. The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals dismissed Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton's appeal of the temporary order a judge issued last week halting the investigation by the Department of Family and Protective Services into the parents of the 16-year-old girl. The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.”

The move by Texas Children’s Hospital comes after Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive — and it has left families in the state scrambling, trans advocates say.

The nation’s largest pediatric hospital has announced it has stopped gender-affirming therapies after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse. Texas Children’s Hospital, located in Houston, announced that its decision to stop such hormone-related prescription therapies was made after it reviewed Abbott’s order, which came when Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton last month released a nonbinding legal opinion that labeled certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.” “The mission of Texas Children’s Hospital is to create a healthier future for all children, including transgender children, within the bounds of the law ... This step was taken to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications,” the hospital wrote in a statement released Friday.

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Here’s what to know about “safety folders,” and how they relate to the latest directive in Texas to investigate gender-affirming care for trans youths as “child abuse.”

Judge's order stops short of preventing the state from looking into other reports about children receiving similar care.

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The lawsuit says at least one family is already under investigation for providing their child with medically necessary gender-affirming care.

War in Europe meets the United States' immovable partisanship, Texas holds a whole bunch of elections, and swing state Republicans try to hand power for this one (and the next one) to their state legislative majorities.

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas say in a lawsuit that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse.

The state's elections Tuesday will help determine the political staying power of the Bush family, the potency of former president Trump’s endorsements and the state’s future representation on Capitol Hill.

Texas holds the first primaries of the midterms on Tuesday. Here are four races to watch — two congressional contests and two contests in which statewide Republicans have primary challengers.

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will face Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke after voters in Texas opened what could be a lengthy, bruising primary season.

The 2022 midterm election season opens Tuesday in Texas.

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The family brand has taken a hit in conservative Texas. As he seeks the nomination for attorney general, Bush says he runs “as my own man.“

Political observers say Republican candidates are using transgender people as a classic “wedge issue” as 2022 campaigns heat up.

Texas Gov_ Greg Abbott has ordered the state’s child welfare agency to investigate reports of gender-confirming care for kids as “child abuse."

Companies at the center of the deadly prescription opioid epidemic are close to deals that would cap their liability while funding drug treatment and recovery programs.

The race to the right in Texas Republican primaries, the aftermath of San Francisco's school board recalls and gunshots fired at a Kentucky Democrat kick off a debate about bail reform.

Facebook should have obtained users' consent before identifying them in photos, according to the suit.

Facebook should have obtained users' consent before identifying them in photos, according to the suit.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the Facebook parent company of illegally collecting biometric data on users without their consent.

Early voting in the first primary of the 2022 midterm elections are underway in Texas.

Attorneys general in Texas, Florida, Missouri and West Virginia are probing the company for shutting down a fundraiser.

Races for state attorneys general are emerging as important battlegrounds this year as Republicans seek to expand their reach in the office sometimes referred to as “the people's lawyer.”.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in letters to seven governors, is reaffirming the need for members of their states' Army and Air National Guards to get the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine or lose their Guard status.

Newly unredacted documents from a state-led antitrust lawsuit against Google accuse the search giant of colluding with rival Facebook to manipulate online advertising sales.

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert has joined the crowded field of Republicans mounting primary challenges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A lawsuit over new voting laws in Texas is bringing the state into court once again with the Biden administration.

The Biden administration is suing Texas over new voting rules that outlasted a summer of dramatic protests by Democrats.

A federal appeals court is temporarily allowing the nation’s toughest abortion law to resume in Texas.

Abortions in Texas can resume under a federal judge’s ruling, but for how long.

Abortions have resumed in at least six Texas clinics after a federal judge halted the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. Amy Hagstrom Miller is the president of Whole Woman's Health, which has four clinics in Texas.

A U.S. Senate candidate in Missouri, Republican state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, is flexing the power of his office by filing a slew of lawsuits, including against Democratic cities and schools to stop mask mandates.

The often-heated debate over whether returning students should wear masks in the classroom has moved from school boards to courtrooms.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is calling on parents to take seriously the coronavirus risks for children and to ensure students wear face masks.

A surge of COVID-19 cases is prompting federal courts to impose new restrictions and requirements for mask-wearing and vaccinations.

Florida has reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday.

Florida’s attorney general, Ashley Moody, tweeted Wednesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19.

Lawyers for Texas’ embattled attorney general have asked the state bar association to drop its investigation into whether the Republican’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

The Texas bar association has opened an investigation into whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduct.

Texas GOP Chairman Allen West is stepping down after a short but combative run of using the job to antagonize top Republicans in America’s biggest red state.

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The Texas Legislature is on the verge of signing off on some of the most restrictive voting measures in the U.S. A vote was expected Sunday in the GOP-controlled Texas House that would send Republican Gov. Greg Abbott a raft of election changes that would eliminate drive-thru voting and empower partisan poll watchers.

Texas Republicans are digging in for a final weekend vote on some of the most restrictive new voting laws in the U.S. A sweeping bill finalized Saturday would eliminate drive-thru voting, reduce polling hours and scale back Sunday voting.

A judge has rejected the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy bid, blocking its plan to reincorporate in Texas.

The Supreme Court has refused to consider Texas’ challenge to California’s ban on state-funded business trips to Texas and other states deemed to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

These are busy days for Republican state attorneys general, filing repeated lawsuits that claim President Joe Biden and his administration are overstepping their authority on immigration, climate change, the environment and taxes.

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Doug Ducey said the site switch will maintain the state’s vaccination program’s presence in southeastern Maricopa County while protecting staff, volunteers and people getting vaccinated. Greece is currently grappling with a surge in coronavirus infections which has seen many hospitals run by the state health system reach capacity. 23, a total of 42,028 COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed on the island nation of around 900,000 people, of which 248 died due to COVID-19. Kate Brown said those groups will now be eligible to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine on April 5. ___PHOENIX — Arizona on Friday reported 571 new coronavirus cases and 24 deaths as the number of virus-related hospitalizations remained fairly stable.

Committee Ranking Member Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks during a hearing to examine the nomination of former Gov. – Attorneys general from 21 states on Wednesday sued to to overturn President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the contentious Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada. Led by Ken Paxton of Texas and Austin Knudsen of Montana, the states said Biden had overstepped his authority when he revoked the permit for the Keystone pipeline on his first day in office. Construction on the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) pipeline began last year when former President Donald Trump revived the long-delayed project after it had stalled under the Obama administration. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.

FILE - This Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks in Washington, at a rally in support of President Donald Trump. The attorney general's office and Gleason have not responded to repeated requests for comment. Case records show proceeds from the sale went to Tom Gleason as well as his mother and father, Alfred Gleason. Reached by phone, Tom Gleason said he does not speak to reporters and hung up. On Jan. 25, he was in Austin preparing to give a presentation, which the attorney general’s office declined to release.

Brazos Electric Power Cooperative Inc., the oldest and biggest generation and transmission power cooperative in Texas has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following last months winter storm that left millions without power. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)The largest and oldest power cooperative in Texas is filing for bankruptcy protection, citing last month’s winter storm that left millions without power, and it is unlikely to be the last utility to seek shelter in the courts. Brazos Electric Power Cooperative serves distributors that supply electricity to more than 1.5 million Texans in 68 counties from the Panhandle to Houston. Brazos said Monday that it was a “financially robust, stable company” before the Arctic freeze that hit Texas between Feb. 13 and Feb. 19. Ed Hirs, who teaches energy economics at the University of Houston, is sure there will be more power company bankruptcies.