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Texas Political Pulse for June 25, 2026. You received 14 news.
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KAUZ (CBS) 6 (Wichita Falls)
Mosquitoes test positive for West Nile in Wichita Falls
...Falls, a pool of mosquitoes from Wichita Falls has tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). The ​Texas Department of State Health Services laboratory and the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Public Health...
Spencer Smith
06/25/2026 Online
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Texas Insider
Sens. Cruz, Warnock, Kennedy, Cassidy Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect American Shrimpers
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. ​Ted Cruz (R-​Texas), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), John Kennedy (R-La.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the Save Our Shrimpers Act. This bipartisan ​legislation...
06/25/2026 Online
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Wood County Monitor
Quitman council honors officers, approves building regulation changes
...Quitman Public Library's summer reading program. The event is being supported through funding from the ​Texas Commission on the Arts. Following an executive session, council members unanimously approved a contingent-fee...
Carley Tucker
06/25/2026 Online
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chron​.‌com
JPMorgan Chase to layoff nearly 250 employees in North Texas
...year-long overhaul Lights | What's causing Houston's brief power outrages? CenterPoint explains Changes | ​Ken Paxton's attorney explains why he endorsed ​James Talarico Crime | Texas oil CEO busted on theft and...
Molly Wilhelm
06/25/2026 Online
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Houston Public Media
Less diverse history, more Bible stories in public schools get initial OK by Texas board
...contributions to algebra and astronomy. "Let me be very clear: Islam is not a religion," state Sen. ​Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, testified before the education board Monday. "It is a totalitarian theocracy, not...
Jaden Edison
06/25/2026 Online
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Houston Public Media
The U.S. last beat screwworm in 1966. Can current leaders learn from the past’s playbook?
...screwworm that way. What we needed was a preventative measure." Knipling, who was born and raised in ​Texas, theorized that the real solution was to reduce or eliminate the screwworm altogether. Long before...
Jayme Lozano Carver
06/25/2026 Online
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KTBC (FOX 7) Austin
U.S. New World Screwworm cases rise to 20 as Texas outbreak expands
...risen to 20, with 19 confirmed in Texas and one in New Mexico affecting domestic animals. Governor ​Greg Abbott has activated the State Emergency Operations Center, and strict livestock movement bans are...
Amber Kite
06/25/2026 Online
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San Antonio Current
Mexican man dies in ICE custody in Laredo, at least the 20th fatality this year
...Webb County Judge Tino Tijerina said he was not familiar with the case. A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. ​Henry Cuellar, a LaredoDemocrat, wrote in an email that the congressman had been advised of the death and...
The Texas Tribune, Propublica, Lomi Kriel
06/25/2026 Online
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Dallas Express
Texas Democrats Urge TEKS Delay After Some Backed Deadline Law
Forty-six ​Texas Democratic ​lawmakers are urging the State Board of Education to pause final action on proposed social studies academic standards, but official vote records show the letter's lead author...
06/25/2026 Online
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NewsRadio 1080 KRLD
Urgent: Camp Mystic Bankruptcy After Tragic Texas Flood
Camp Mystic plans to reopen in ​Texas next summer, a year after floods killed 27 AP News/Eli Hartman Camp Mystic summer camp and its affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Wednesday, nearly...
Joe Kelley
06/25/2026 Online
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Dallas Express
Abbott Awards $22M Texas Energy Fund Grants For Panhandle Electric Reliability
Texas Gov. ​Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday that more than $22 million in grants have been awarded through the Texas Energy Fund to strengthen electric reliability in northeast Texas and the Panhandle....
06/25/2026 Online
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East Texas Radio
East Texas Lawmakers Considering Legislation On Bit-Coin ATMs
State Sen. ​Bryan Hughes and Reps. ​Cole Hefner and Daniel Alders are planning to pursue ​legislation concerning ongoing thefts using Cash-to-cryptocurrency terminals, often called "bitcoin ATMs." Once cash...
Dave Kirkpatrick
06/25/2026 Online
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Texas Observer
Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi
...director of the Texas Water Commission in the 1980s and in the 1990s as special counsel on water for the ​Texas Department of Agriculture. During that time, the state built its last reservoirs but failed to devise...
06/25/2026 Online
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Gilmer Mirror
As supporters praise Texas’ proposed "Judeo-Christian" curriculum, rabbis say it dismisses Judaism
Praising a proposal to require ​Texas public school students to read Bible stories and passages in class, supporters say the perspective is an important acknowledgment that the nation was founded on Judeo-Christian...
Ellie Ashby
06/25/2026 Online
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