Texas

Texas hit by floods as Tropical Storm Nicholas strikes

The 14th named storm of the Atlantic’s 2021 hurricane season brings heavy rain and winds to Gulf Coast

Theo Gkousarov (Metdesk)

16, Sep, 2021 @5:00 AM

Texas’s largest companies stay silent on state abortion ban despite outrage

Corporations, including American Airlines and ExxonMobil, have not made statements about the ban that all but outlaws abortion

Lauren Aratani

15, Sep, 2021 @8:00 AM

‘It’s not a Democrat or a Republican thing’: Biden emphasizes need to address climate crisis – as it happened

President echoes his comments from last week after Hurricane Ida

Dani Anguiano (now) and Joan E Greve (earlier)

14, Sep, 2021 @12:02 AM

Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect

Software company sends message to workforce addressing access to reproductive healthcare

Richard Luscombe

11, Sep, 2021 @5:03 PM

‘We don’t fit the demographic’: a community in Dallas grapples with gentrification

What is lost when family-owned businesses and the elders playing dominoes on the corner get pushed out by high rents and chain stores

Brianna Holt

11, Sep, 2021 @4:00 AM

A child’s life is sacred – until they’re born | Brief letters

Letters

10, Sep, 2021 @3:25 PM

The quest to find African American graves before they’re lost to climate crisis

As both the climate crisis and development intensify, Black cemeteries are now at a disproportionate risk of being lost, some before they have even been officially found

Colleen Hagerty

10, Sep, 2021 @10:00 AM

A national anthem law may have finally silenced the NBA’s most outspoken owner

Mark Cuban has spent years sparring with opponents, both imagined and real. But he has been strangely quiet on a new ruling in Texas

Andrew Lawrence

10, Sep, 2021 @9:00 AM

Biden administration sues Texas over ‘clearly unconstitutional’ abortion ban

Kamala Harris says women’s reproductive rights are ‘non-negotiable’ as justice department takes action

Adam Gabbatt

09, Sep, 2021 @10:01 PM

The Texas county that explains why Republicans are terrified

Demographic shifts in places like Fort Bend mean the GOP is desperate to pass its extreme agenda while it can

Sam Levine

09, Sep, 2021 @2:00 PM

White House derides Abbott’s vow to ‘eliminate’ rape amid criticism of Texas abortion ban – as it happened

Jen Psaki scorns Texas governor’s defense of abortion ban while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls remarks ‘disgusting’ – follow all the latest

Maanvi Singh (now) and Joan E Greve (earlier)

09, Sep, 2021 @12:02 AM

AOC on Texas governor’s ‘disgusting’ abortion remarks: ‘He is not familiar with a female body’

Congresswoman explains basics of menstruation and pregnancy to Greg Abbott after he claimed six weeks was ample time to get an abortion

Maya Yang

08, Sep, 2021 @3:40 PM

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