Texas bills requiring air-conditioned prisons languish despite temperatures being ruled unconstitutional

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A week after a federal judge declared hot conditions in Texas prisons unconstitutional, a legislative push to require air conditioning in every state prison has not gained sig

Defense attorney in El Paso Walmart mass shooting says Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric helped inspire it

The attorney who represented the gunman convicted of killing 23 people five at an El Paso Walmart five years ago now says his client's motives were fueled President Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric, according to nonprofit newsroom El Paso Matters. In August 2019, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius

Texas Republican lawmaker and right-wing social media account bully trans Texas teacher out of job

A transgender teacher at a Texas high school resigned Monday after a state legislator and a widely followed right-wing social media account demanded her firing over an online video where she discussed feeling supported by her students, NBC News reports. Rosie Sandri, 33, stepped down from her positi

Federal regulators ask Ted Cruz's campaign to explain $593,00 in oddly timed small donations

Federal regulators have asked the reelection campaign of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to explain $593,000 in donations it claims to have collected from unidentified small donors in the final weeks of 2024. In a newly filed letter, the Federal Election Commission asked Ted Cruz for Senate Treasurer B