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Sarah Stogner Elected Prosecutor in Texas Oil Country

Par :J. David Goodman and Paul Ratje
18 juin 2025 à 10:40
Sarah Stogner had never tried a criminal case before getting elected D.A. in an oil-rich area half the size of New Jersey. So far, it’s been a struggle.

Sarah Stogner, an oil-and-gas lawyer in Louisiana, moved to the Ward County during the pandemic.
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Texas Passed a Law Protecting Campus Speech. It’s on the Verge of Rolling It Back.

Par :Jeremy W. Peters
18 juin 2025 à 05:02
A bill would restrict “expressive activities” on campus — which could include what students wear and the hours and weeks they can protest.

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Protesters at an encampment at the University of Texas at Austin last year.
✇NYT > U.S. News

An Unlikely Prosecutor Is Now the Law in Texas Oil Country

Par :J. David Goodman and Paul Ratje
18 juin 2025 à 05:00
Sarah Stogner had never tried a criminal case before getting elected D.A. in an oil-rich area half the size of New Jersey. So far, it’s been a struggle.

Sarah Stogner, an oil-and-gas lawyer in Louisiana, moved to the Ward County during the pandemic.
À partir d’avant-hierFlux principal
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Officials Investigate More Threats of Violence Against American Politicians

Par :John Yoon
17 juin 2025 à 06:23
The authorities in at least three states were investigating threats against elected officials. President Trump and U.S. senators were identified as targets.
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Arrest Made After ‘Credible Threat’ to Texas Lawmakers, Official Said

Par :J. David Goodman
14 juin 2025 à 18:44
The threat came after shootings early Saturday that killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounded another Minnesota lawmaker and his wife.

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Law enforcement closed the Texas Capitol after state police said there was a threat to lawmakers.
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Texas Governor Will Deploy National Guard to Immigration Protests

Par :J. David Goodman · Edgar Sandoval and Yan Zhuang
11 juin 2025 à 13:15
Gov. Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of President Trump’s immigration agenda, is the first governor to call on the National Guard as protests spread to multiple cities.

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Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said he would be sending National Guard troops as protests against immigration raids spread.
✇NYT > U.S. News

White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains

Par :J. David Goodman and Shane Goldmacher
9 juin 2025 à 18:57
A rare mid-decade redistricting push has unnerved some Texas Republicans, who worry a drive to harm Democrats could end up endangering G.O.P. incumbents in 2026.

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Any attempt at a mid-decade redistricting would require the Texas Legislature to approve new maps.
✇NYT > World News

BlackRock Is Accused of a Plot Against Coal. The Firm Says That’s ‘Absurd.’

Par :Karen Zraick
9 juin 2025 à 16:36
An unusual lawsuit in Texas claims investment firms illegally conspired to fight climate change. On Monday, a judge heard arguments to dismiss the case.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas, who brought the case against the investment firms in 2022.
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Scott Panetti, 67, at the Center of a Landmark Death Penalty Case, Dies

Par :Trip Gabriel
7 juin 2025 à 13:23
Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.

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Scott Panetti in a prison visitation cell in Texas in 2006. The following year, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an individual must have a “rational understanding” of why the state planned to put him to death.
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  • Why Trump Is Trying to Send Deportees to South Sudan
    On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand what’s going on and how it fits into President Trump’s larger immigration plan.
     
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Why Trump Is Trying to Send Deportees to South Sudan

Par :Hamed Aleaziz · Katrin Bennhold · Christina Thornell · David Seekamp and James Surdam
6 juin 2025 à 05:01
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand what’s going on and how it fits into President Trump’s larger immigration plan.
✇NYT > U.S. News

Texas’ Migrant Tuition Break Blocked After Texas Joins D.O.J. to Kill It

Par :J. David Goodman
4 juin 2025 à 22:12
For two decades, Texas offered undocumented students in-state tuition, with bipartisan backing. On Wednesday, a federal judge stopped it after the Justice Department sued and Texas agreed.

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In-state students at the University of Texas at Austin pay a minimum of about $10,800 for tuition per year, while the minimum cost for out-of-state students is about $40,500.
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2025 Texas Legislature: What Passed and What Didn’t? School Vouchers, THC Ban, Immigration and More

Par :J. David Goodman
3 juin 2025 à 21:08
Republican factions united to pass most but not all of their conservative priorities in this year’s legislative session, illustrating the limits of right-wing governance.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a news conference in May defending a ban on consumable T.H.C. products.
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There Are Limits to Republican Lawmakers’ Reach, Even in Texas

Par :J. David Goodman
3 juin 2025 à 16:56
Republican factions united to pass most but not all of their conservative priorities in this year’s legislative session, illustrating the limits of right-wing governance.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a news conference in May defending a ban on consumable T.H.C. products.
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A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead

Par :Isabelle Taft
3 juin 2025 à 10:58
Genetic genealogy is identifying the mothers of deceased newborns found abandoned, shedding light on crimes that went unsolved for years. Women now may face lengthy prison sentences for decades-old chapters of their pasts.

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Wayne Springer, a former investigator for Medina County, at the site in Hondo, Texas, where a deceased newborn was found.
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Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'

Par :Jason Koebler
28 mai 2025 à 12:11
Texas Solicitor General Resigned After Fantasizing Colleague Would Get 'Anally Raped By a Cylindrical Asteroid'

Content warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual harassment.

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Judd Stone, the former Solicitor General of Texas resigned from his position in 2023 following sexual harassment complaints from colleagues in which he allegedly discussed “a disturbing sexual fantasy [he] had about me being violently anally raped by a cylindrical asteroid in front of my wife and children,” according to documents filed this week as part of a lawsuit against Judd.

“Judd publicly described this in excruciating detail over a long period of time, to a group of Office of Attorney General employees,” an internal letter written by Brent Webster, the first assistant attorney general of Texas, about the incident reads. The lawsuit was first reported by Bloomberg Law.

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