Tag: Texas

Some coastal cities where Harvey is set to make landfall have issued voluntary and mandatory evacuations. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Energy and Environment

Trump calls governors of Texas and Louisiana ahead of Harvey landfall

Daniel Chaitin · August 24, 2017 11:47 pm

Oil companies continued to cease offshore operations and evacuate personnel on Thursday in preparation for Tropical Storm Harvey becoming a full-blown hurricane. The tropical storm is expected to intensify into an category 3 hurricane by Friday morning, as it heads directly for the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Energy and Environment

Oil industry evacuates, ceases production as Harvey approaches

John Siciliano · August 24, 2017 11:43 pm

A three-judge panel in San Antonio, Texas, unanimously ruled Thursday that portions of the state's House district map must be redrawn before the 2018 midterm elections. (iStock by Getty Images)

Federal court orders Texas to redraw statehouse map due to discrimination against minorities

Anna Giaritelli · August 24, 2017 11:00 pm

Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, wouldn't say Thursday whether he'll support President Trump's re-election bid in 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Will Hurd won’t say if he’ll support Trump’s re-election in 2020

Melissa Quinn · August 24, 2017 3:26 pm

A federal court on Wednesday concluded Texas' replacement voter identification bill is discriminatory and moved to block the law from being implemented. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal court strikes down replacement voter ID bill in Texas

Anna Giaritelli · August 23, 2017 9:40 pm

Is there more that explains why Texas has all but banned abortion and Oregon is demanding insurance companies cover abortions than just the old adage that all politics is local? (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Abortion today is a tale of two Americas, all thanks to sex education

Nicole Russell · August 23, 2017 8:25 pm

Man arrested trying to plant explosives on Confederate statue in Houston, police say

Associated Press · August 21, 2017 4:13 pm

A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed from the University of Texas campus, early Monday mornin, in Austin, Texas. University of Texas President Greg Fenves ordered the immediate removal of statues of Robert E. Lee and other prominent Confederate figures from a main area of campus, saying such monuments have become "symbols of modern white supremacy and neo-Nazism." (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

University of Texas at Austin removes Confederate monuments

Melissa Quinn · August 21, 2017 1:02 pm

"I don't think it's beneficial to go through and try to sanitize history and try to erase the Civil War. We have a history that needs to be presented fairly, needs to be presented in context. It needs to clearly enunciate the evils of slavery," Sen. Ted Cruz told reporters at the Mary Kay Headquarters in Dallas, Texas, according to CNN. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Ted Cruz opposes efforts to ‘sanitize history’

Mandy Mayfield · August 17, 2017 9:48 pm

San Antonio police arrested James Bradley Jr. in July after discovering his tractor-trailer full of 39 illegal immigrants outside a Walmart store. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Truck driver indicted on smuggling illegal immigrants who died, could face death penalty

Ryan Lovelace · August 17, 2017 3:40 pm

The districts represented by Blake Farenthold and Lloyd Doggett violated federal law, a three-judge panel found. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Federal court scraps two Texas congressional districts

Ryan Lovelace · August 16, 2017 5:15 pm

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill that bans insurers from covering abortions, obligating women to pay a separate premium if they want coverage for the procedure when it is performed outside of medical emergencies. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas governor signs bill banning insurers from covering abortion

Kimberly Leonard · August 15, 2017 6:43 pm