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MATTHEWS: The redistricting wars

August 14, 2025 Stacey Matthews

A redistricting war is currently playing out between red states and blue states following the call by Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for a special session of the state legislature last month, in part to […]

NC officials, candidates react to Biden’s Title IX change

May 8, 2024 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH —The Biden administration’s U.S. Department of Education finalized its Title IX rule change last month, adding “gender identity” as a protected class, opening the door for transgender women to play on women’s sports teams […]

Texas governor authorizes state to return migrants to border

July 15, 2022 Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott authorized state forces to apprehend migrants and return them to the U.S.-Mexico border, pushing the boundaries of their enforcement powers and the Republican’s escalating efforts to curb the […]

Toll now at 53 in San Antonio as families wait for answers

July 1, 2022 Juan Lozano, Fabiola Sanchez and Maria Verza, Associated Press

SAN ANTONIO — In the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the […]

Texas halts truck inspections that caused border gridlock

April 19, 2022 Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border, after a week of intensifying backlash and fears of deepening economic losses. […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott now testing negative for COVID-19

August 23, 2021 Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he has tested negative for COVID-19, just four days after testing positive. “I’m told that my infection was brief and mild because of the vaccination that I […]

Texas begins jailing border crossers on trespassing charges

July 28, 2021 Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is beginning to arrest migrants on trespassing charges along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s actions that he says are needed to slow the number of border […]

Texas GOP begins special session spurred by walkout

July 9, 2021 Paul J. Weber, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday began a second attempt to enact election integrity laws in Texas, weeks after Democrats’ dramatic walkout from the state Capitol thwarted the measures. The haste reflects […]

Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall

June 17, 2021 Acacia Coronado, Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing to build more barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico, part of an emerging […]

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GOP governors tie economy to pragmatic approach to coronavirus

June 17, 2021 Bill Barrow, Associated Press

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. — Republican governors running for reelection have begun trumpeting the party’s more pragmatic approach to the coronavirus pandemic, trying to flip the script on an issue that Democrats say helped narrowly win […]