The Texas Capitol seen on Monday, June 30, 2025. Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging changes to the state's education system, law enforcement, ...

House Bill 8 replaces the STAAR test with three shorter exams administered at the beginning, middle and end of the school year. Ron Jenkins Star-Telegram file photo More than a dozen laws passed ...

A slate of new laws will go into effect in Texas in the coming weeks. Pictured is the exterior of the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Juan Figueroa / Staff Photographer ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Dozens of new Texas laws will take effect in December and January, bringing wide-ranging changes to the state’s education system, law enforcement, taxes and more. Over 800 laws from ...

Texas will close out 2025 with about half a dozen new state laws taking effect on Dec. 4, covering everything from public-school testing and legislative procedures to abortion-drug liability and ...

As many as 66 percent of Americans expect to borrow for holiday shopping, and about a quarter anticipate taking on $900 or more in holiday debt. Many holiday borrowers will carry that debt for months ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is calling a federal judge’s order a “win for religious freedom” after Judge Orlando L. Garcia issued a preliminary injunction requiring certain Texas ...

When senators discovered they had been subjected to unconstitutional surveillance, they voted themselves half a million dollars each. The rest of us got nothing. Last month, Sen. Chuck Grassley ...

Graduate and professional school students are about to experience an unprecedented funding gap. Thanks to One Big Beautiful Bill’s elimination of the Grad PLUS loan program – which allowed borrowing ...

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas can enforce a 2023 law that prohibits drag shows in public or when children are present, although the ruling indicates that the judges do not believe all ...

TEMPERATURES GET COMING UP IN A FEW MINUTES AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THE LARGEST GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN HISTORY CONTINUES WITH THE IMPACTS INCREASING FOR MILLIONS OF AMERICANS. AND TODAY A JUDGE ...