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Firefighters battle the Smokehouse Creek Fire north of Canadian, Texas, on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024.

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  • Climate

Gov. Abbott says Texas wildfires may have destroyed up to 500 structures

Texas officials warned that the threat was not yet over. Higher temperatures and stronger winds forecast for Saturday elevated worries that fires in the Panhandle could continue spreading.

March 02, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
In this photo provided by the Flower Mound, Texas, Fire Department, Flower Mound firefighters respond to a fire in the Texas Panhandle, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.

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  • Climate

Expanding wildfires force Texas nuclear facility to pause operations

Wildfires swept across the Texas Panhandle early Wednesday, prompting evacuations, cutting off power to thousands, and forcing at least the temporary shutdown of a nuclear weapons facility.

February 28, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws

These cases raise a critical question for the First Amendment and the future of social media: whether states can force the platforms to carry content they find hateful or objectionable.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson

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  • Economy

A Supreme Court case that could reshape social media

Next week, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that pits the Attorneys General of Texas and Florida against a trade group representing some of the biggest social media companies in the world. Today, how we got here, and now the case could upend our online experience.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Adrian Ma,
  • Wailin Wong,
  • and 3 more
Mexican health authorities suspended operation at this medical clinic in Matamoros, Tamaulipas after reports that a number of cosmetic surgery patients were exposed to a potentially deadly fungal meningitis. Twelve patients with probable or confirmed cases died.

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  • Global Health

They came to clinics in Mexico for cosmetic surgery and got a deadly fungal meningitis

The risks of medical tourism are depicted in a study of U.S patients who traveled to two clinics for procedures like tummy tucks and butt lifts — and were exposed to a virulent fungal meningitis.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Melody Schreiber
In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, a prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment's exception clause, that allows for prison labor, provided legal cover to round up thousands of mostly young Black men. They then were leased out by states to plantations like Angola and some of the country's biggest privately owned companies, including coal mines and railroads.

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  • News

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The prisoners who help produce these goods are disproportionately people of color.

January 30, 2024
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  • Associated Press
During the winter months, American alligators go into a state of brumation, the cold-blooded version of hibernation.

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  • Animals

Texas cold leaves alligators 'frozen' underwater, but still alive. Here's how

Alligators rely on external sources to regulate their body temperatures — so during winter, they will go into brumation. A viral video captured the phenomenon during the Texas winter freeze.

January 26, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
Texas National Guard soldiers install additional razor wire lie along the Rio Grande on Jan. 10 in Eagle Pass, Texas.

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with Biden administration in Texas border razor-wire case

The move paves the way for federal officials to remove the wire from the state's border with Mexico.

January 22, 2024
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  • Washington Desk
An empty lot where a house once stood in Houston. The former residents moved because of flood damage. A new study suggests that people are moving away from the most flood-prone neighborhoods in cities that are otherwise growing in population.

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  • Climate

People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

December 18, 2023
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  • Rebecca Hersher
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court decision that would make mifepristone less accessible.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to hear abortion pill case

The court's action sets up a collision between the Food and Drug Administration's 23-year study and supervision of mifepristone, and the circumstances under which it can be prescribed.

December 13, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Annie Gersh
Kate Cox is about 21 weeks pregnant and her fetus has a condition that is almost always fatal. She is also having problems with her own health that has sent her to the emergency room multiple times.

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  • Health

A woman who sued Texas for access to abortion seeks a procedure out of state instead

Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, is ill and carrying a fetus with a genetic condition that is almost always fatal. She decided to leave Texas to get an abortion.

December 12, 2023
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 14, 2022.

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  • National

Texas Supreme Court pauses ruling that allowed pregnant woman to have an abortion

The court put on hold a ruling that approved an abortion for a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis, throwing into limbo a challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S.

December 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Darryl George, 18, will spend the remainder of the year in in-school suspension, extending a punishment that was first imposed in August over his hairstyle that district officials maintain violates their dress code policy.

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  • Education

A Black Texas student has been suspended once again for his natural hairstyle

Darryl George, 18, showed up for class on Tuesday at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, before being removed and placed back into in-school suspension for his natural hairstyle.

December 07, 2023
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Migrants cross the Rio Grande from Mexico near El Paso, Texas. A new law makes illegal entry into Texas from a foreign country a state crime. It also authorizes a state judge to order someone to return to Mexico after their arrest.

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  • National

Texas' illegal entry law will test states' powers on immigration, border enforcement

The latest measure in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's border crackdown "Operation Lone Star" makes it a state crime to enter Texas illegally from a foreign country.

December 06, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Aguilar
The sun sets behind pumpjacks on Sept. 15, 2021, in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas.

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  • National

Texas pushes some textbook publishers to remove material on fossil fuels

Texas' education board called on some publishers to remove material that some Republicans criticized as incorrect or negative portrayals of fossil fuels in the biggest oil and gas state.

November 18, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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