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After a chilly start to the morning, today will be pleasant and mild with a few passing clouds and highs in the 60s. The weather turns much warmer Sunday and Monday, with temperatures climbing back to 70 or above. Then, the next cold front arrives Monday night, with rain and cooler weather again Monday evening through Tuesday morning. Temperatures will …

AUSTIN — The University of Texas at Austin says it will disclose the names of faculty and staff with sexual misconduct violations to anyone who submits an open records request, but students want the names published online. Spokesman J.B. Bird said UT is working to compile a summary of violations as far back as November 2017. It will be released …

One of the most politically heated battles the Dallas school board has undertaken in recent years was the decision to transform some classrooms into charters. Parents and teachers crowded meetings for months urging the board to not “privatize” any part of DISD by handing control over to outsiders. Trustees argued amongst themselves late into the evening — and well into …

Texas is home to eight secretive surveillance centers, supported jointly by federal, state and local law enforcement departments. The Texas Department of Public Safety helps to oversee them. They’re called fusion centers because they fuse together some of the efforts of various police agencies. Dallas police host one of the centers. Fort Worth police host another, and there’s also one …

A former airline crew chief was sentenced Friday to 16 years and eight months in federal prison after he admitted that he worked with a group of people to bypass security at DFW International Airport to smuggle what he thought was methamphetamine onto commercial flights. Nelson Pabon, 48, pleaded guilty in March to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute …

Country singer Kylie Rae Harris was impaired by alcohol and driving as fast as 102 miles an hour before the September accident that killed her and a 16-year-old girl in New Mexico, authorities said Thursday. Country music artist Kylie Rae Harris(Torrez Music Group) According to Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe, toxicology tests showed that Harris, a 30-year-old Wylie native, had …

Good morning! Here are the top political headlines from Austin, Washington, the campaign trail and Dallas. If you’d like to receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Points from Austin 1. Texas lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday over the rise of vaping devices among youth and the lack of federal and state regulation, despite a new law that raised the smoking age …

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress from Texas are pushing hard for passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, saying any delays could damage the state’s economy because of the close trade ties between the state and Mexico and Canada. Seventeen House members from Texas held a news conference Thursday afternoon to say the USMCA has bipartisan support in the House of …

AUSTIN — The University of Texas at Austin says it will disclose the names of faculty and staff with sexual misconduct violations to anyone who submits an open records request, but students want the names published online. Spokesman J.B. Bird said UT is working to compile a summary of violations as far back as November 2017. It will be released …

WASHINGTON — Casting the evidence that President Donald Trump abused his power as overwhelming, Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed the nation Thursday and solemnly announced that the House will begin drafting articles of impeachment. Texas Republicans remained unpersuaded, even as Pelosi insisted that impeachment has become unavoidable because “the facts are uncontested.” “His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our …