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News Articles: Texas

A law enforcement officer helps people cross the street at Uvalde Memorial Hospital after a shooting was reported earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.

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Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school

A father whose fourth-grade daughter was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school and raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

May 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Investigators search for evidence outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday, the day after a mass shooting took place there.

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What we know so far about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

Tuesday's attack at Robb Elementary School took the lives of 21 people. An additional 17 people were injured.

May 25, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A man brings flowers to Robb Elementary School on Wednesday in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

How world leaders are reacting to the Uvalde school shooting

Officials around the world are responding to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the deadliest such incident to take place in the U.S. in nearly a decade.

May 25, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Alex Leff
Matthew McConaughey attends a movie premiere on Dec. 12, 2021, in Los Angeles.

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  • National

Here's what Matthew McConaughey said about the shooting in his hometown

McConaughey urged people not to accept such tragedies as the status quo.

May 25, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Members of the community gather at the City of Uvalde Town Square for a prayer vigil in the wake of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

How to help Uvalde families following yesterday's elementary school shooting

The community is looking for blood donations, legal assistance and funds for victims' families.

May 25, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Police respond to a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday.

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  • National

27 school shootings have taken place so far this year

A shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, marks the 27th such school shooting in the U.S. this year.

May 25, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Police walk near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, following Tuesday's mass shooting there.

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  • National

Tragedy now overshadows Uvalde, a small town growing in population

The small town of Uvalde, Texas, is a place where Friday night football rules, and its claim to fame is being the hometown of actor Matthew McConaughey.

May 25, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Patrick Wood
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a statement by videolink during an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday.

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  • National

Ukrainian officials offer their condolences to Uvalde

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian leaders took to social media to stand in sympathy and solidarity with a tragedy unfolding across the world.

May 25, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
An industry group representing major tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, is asking the Supreme Court to stop a Texas social media law from going into effect.

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  • Technology

Here's why tech giants want the Supreme Court to freeze Texas' social media law

Tech industry groups are urging the Supreme Court to block a Texas law barring social media companies from removing posts or banning users based on political viewpoints

May 19, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond
J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids.

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  • Health

Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing

The last time Texas updated its sex education curriculum, was in the '90s. Students will now learn about contraception and STIs — but not gender or consent. And the classes are all optional.

April 30, 2022
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  • Elena Rivera
Oyster harvester Johny Jurisich empties a dredge filled with oysters onto his boat near Texas City, Texas.

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  • National

Oyster reefs in Texas are disappearing. Fishermen there fear their jobs will too

Texas closed most public oyster reefs for harvesting, dealing a blow to the fishing industry. "It's taken a big toll on me," says Johny Jurisich, whose family has worked in the business for decades.

April 29, 2022
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  • Katie Watkins
Among the books banned in Llano County, Texas, public libraries were: Robie H. Harris's <em data-stringify-type="italic">It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health</em>; Isabel Wilkerson's <em data-stringify-type="italic">Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; </em>and Maurice Sendak's <em data-stringify-type="italic">In the Night Kitchen.</em>

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  • Law

In a lawsuit, a group of Texas library patrons says a book ban amounts to censorship

Llano County officials said they wanted to remove "pornographic" material from libraries but actually censored books based on political and religious grounds, the library patrons' lawsuit says.

April 26, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
President Joe Biden speaks Friday, April 22, 2022, at Green River College in Auburn, Wash., south of Seattle. President Joe Biden is announcing that he has granted the first three pardons of his term. In one case he is providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of trying to sell a copy of an agency file.

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Biden pardons former Secret Service agent and 2 others

President Joe Biden is announcing he has granted the first three pardons of his term, including pardons for two people who were convicted on drug-related charges in Texas and Georgia but went on to become pillars in their communities.

April 26, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A line of Texas Department of Safety vehicles line up on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott launched Operation Lone Star last year to crack down on unauthorized border crossings into the U.S.

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  • Law

The body of a missing Texas National Guard soldier has been recovered

Bishop E. Evans disappeared in the waters of the Rio Grande after attempting to rescue migrants crossing from Mexico to the U.S.

April 25, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
In an undated photo, Melissa Lucio is pictured with one of her young children.

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  • National

Melissa Lucio is scheduled to be executed for a crime that may not have occurred

Lucio is scheduled to be executed for the death of her 2-year-old daughter. Her supporters say she was forced into a false "confession" and that new evidence exists that proves her innocence.

April 22, 2022
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  • Laurel Wamsley
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