San Antonio councilman's second gun buyback takes 550 firearms off the street

District 9 Councilman John Courage's second-annual gun buyback drew hundreds of people who exchanged more than 550 firearms for H-E-B gift cards on Sunday, KSAT reports. Participants were required to turn in working weapons at the Alamodome in exchange for the cards, and no toys or broken guns were

Texas bill would reclassify abortion drugs as controlled substances

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Louisiana law that reclassified abortion-inducing drugs as controlled substances has made it more difficult for doctors to treat a wide range of gynecological conditions, do

Ken Paxton can’t be deposed under oath in whistleblower lawsuit, Texas Supreme Court says

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Attorney General Ken Paxton will not have to sit for a deposition in a longstanding lawsuit filed by four former senior aides who said he improperly fired them after they repo

Disinformation threatens climate action, UN Warns

his story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. BAKU, Azerbaijan — Misleading and false climate content surging through social media and other channels thr