Daily Headlines

-Public School Closures Mount Amid Enrollment Declines -Higher Education Administrators Conference Promotes DEI Themes -Runoff Voters Chose New Mayors in Frisco and Denton

-Texas GOP Convention Opens With Calls for Unity Ahead of November -AG Paxton Says ‘Skill’ Gaming Machines Can Still Violate Texas Gambling Laws -Houston City Council Passes $7.5 Billion Budget

-Abbott Directs Regulators To Make Data Centers Pay Their Own Infrastructure Costs -Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Touts Border Wall Progress -Houston Homeless Hub Begins Soft Opening Under Harris Center Management

-Sexually Explicit Books Found in Library of Talarico’s Austin Church -Islamic Groups in Texas Public Universities Tied to Iran and China -Pro-Landowner Nonprofit Seeks Pause on Determining Need for Transmission Line

-State Historical Marker Honors Drag Performer, Details Cross-Dressing Act
 -Second Capitol Staffer Confirms Past Relationship With Talarico -Public Utility Commission To Hear Landowners’ Appeal of Controversial Transmission Line

-Feds Move Quickly To Contain New World Screwworm Case in South Texas -Delegates to Weigh Future of Texas GOP’s Pro-Life Platform -High School Volleyball Coach Arrested for Sexual Misconduct

-Three Years Later, Lawmakers Question Cities’ Compliance With State Preemption Law -Admitted Texas Vote Fraudster Still Free After Losing Appeal -Samsung to Move US Headquarters to North Texas


-Fate Mayor Declares June ‘Nuclear Family Month’ -Former SBOE Candidate Says Consultants Promised Donations, Delivered ‘Disaster’ -Texas Tech ‘Presidential Cabinet’ Member Extensively Promoted DEI and LGBT Ideologies

-Texas DPS Now Requires English-Only Testing for Commercial Drivers -Multi-County Raids Target Alleged Gambling Enterprise Centered in La Marque -Democrat Prosecutors Sue To Block Paxton’s New Crime Reporting Rules

-Paxton Sues Denton Over 'Big Gay Swim Day,' Alleges Men Could Use Changing Rooms With Women and Children -Talarico Faces Questions About Relationship With Former Staffer, Abortion Lobbyist
  -Dallas Judge Moves Proceedings Online After Supreme Court Ends Mask Mandate

-Talarico Campaign Embraces ‘Talafreako’ Nickname Tied to Far-Left Positions -Texas State University System Regents Discontinue Tenure Track Positions at Two-Year Institutions -Whitmire, Hollins Clash Again as Houston’s $7.5 Billion Budget Heads Toward Council Vote

-Analysis: Talarico’s ‘Moderate Media Makeover’ Begins as Senate Fight Starts -Texas Supreme Court Halts Austin’s Attempt To Rush Project Connect Trial -Johnson County Highlights Chemicals, Power Use, and Noise Risks of Data Centers

-Ken Paxton Defeats Four-Term Senator John Cornyn in Texas GOP Runoff -Bo French Wins Republican Nomination for Railroad Commission -Mayes Middleton Secures GOP Attorney General Nomination

-High-Stakes GOP Runoffs Headline Tuesday’s Election -Houston Man Sentenced for Robbing Driver While Posing as ICE Agent -A&M Regents Rubber-Stamp Over 100 Pages of Tenure Applications

-Paxton Sues Discord, Accusing Platform of Exposing Children to Predators -Court Strikes Down Federal Rule Mandating Spying on Non-Financed Home Transfers -Coach Accused of Grooming Girls Gone From Collinsville ISD

-Cornyn Rejects Texas GOP Call To Pull Negative Ads -University of Texas Regents Pass Restructuring Guidelines -Challenge to Heartbeat Act Ruled a Retaliatory Lawsuit

-Austin Shooting Spree Suspect Has ICE Hold -Paxton Targets Proxy Giant Over ESG Activism, Exxon Texas Redomicile Fight -State Board Reconsiders Revoking ‘Reckless’ Coach’s Certification

-Trump Endorses ‘True MAGA Warrior’ Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Runoff -Court of Criminal Appeals Candidate Faces Criticism Over Event Hosted by Attorneys in ICE Attack Case -Lacy Lakeview Data Center Moves Forward

-Texas Sands Casino Lobby Dumps $500K Into Railroad Commissioner Jim Wright's Campaign -AG Paxton Investigates Southern Poverty Law Center Over Alleged Funding of Extremist Groups -Two More Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD Teachers Arrested

-Texas Children’s Hospital Agrees to Create Detransition Clinic, Pay $10 Million in ‘Historic’ Settlement -Texas Supreme Court Declines to Oust Democrat Lawmakers Over 2025 Quorum Break -City of McKinney Sues its Residents in ‘Trial by Ambush’ Over Airport Bonds

-Dallas Sheriff Faces Legal Threat From Paxton Over ICE Cooperation -More State Lawmakers Call for Pause on Extra-High-Voltage Transmission Project -Third Carrollton-Farmers Branch Teacher Charged With Sex Crime

-Texas Targets Alleged ‘Ghost’ Daycare Businesses in H-1B Lawsuit -Judge Temporarily Reinstates Terminated Texas State Professor -Livingston Police Officer Accused of Sexual Misconduct With Student

-Texas Sues Netflix for Allegedly Spying on Children and Consumers
 -Texas A&M Gave Former VP Pence $150,000 ‘Honorarium’
 -Organizer’s Husband Lashes Out After Cancellation of Muslim-Only Waterpark Event

-Trump Says Texas Senate Endorsement Decision Coming ‘Relatively Soon’ -New Braunfels Announces Mayoral Runoff Amid Election Confusion -Texas Education Agency Adds 21 More Names to ‘Do Not Hire’ Registry

-State Board Orders Muslim University in Dallas to Shut Down -Paxton Launches Statewide Investigation To Enforce Ten Commandments and School Prayer Laws -State Lawmakers Question Extra-High-Voltage Transmission Project