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AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton widened his narrow lead over Democratic challenger Rochelle Garza, a sign the embattled incumbent may have some breathing room ahead of the November election, according to a new poll. Paxton now leads Garza by 7 percentage points among registered voters — up from a 2-point margin a month ago, according to a Dallas Morning News-University of Texas …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter in a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech. But the decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is unlikely to be the last word in …

Questions continued to swirl Saturday around Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ migrant relocation efforts, from his use of federal COVID aid to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, to the mysterious aviation company tasked with handling the trips. Vertol Systems Co. Inc. was paid $615,000 by the Florida Department of Transportation to ferry 48 Venezuelan migrants to the small Massachusetts …

A 17-year-old is behind bars in connection with a fatal shooting at a central Oak Cliff gas station in June. Jeremy Wilson was booked into the Dallas County jail Thursday in the death of 43-year-old Cordney Dawson. He faces a charge of capital murder, with bail set at $500,000, and does not have an attorney listed in court records. Shortly …

The weekend has arrived but so has higher heat and humidity. North Texas will deal with above normal temperatures in the low to mid 90s this weekend with humidity levels making it feel even hotter. The hot and muggy weather will last through all of next week with highs almost 10 degrees above normal, in the mid to upper 90s. …

A 30-year-old man was jailed Saturday in the death of a cyclist struck in a hit-and-run in Grand Prairie. Juan Robledo-Delgado was booked into the Grand Prairie Detention Center on a charge of an accident involving death, a second-degree felony. About 9:30 p.m. Friday in the 2500 block of West Jefferson Street, near Trailerdell Street, police say Robledo-Delgado was driving …

WASHINGTON — A top U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official Thursday defended the move to begin providing abortions to veterans and their beneficiaries in certain cases, even in states such as Texas where those services are illegal or tightly restricted. Testifying before the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Shereef Elnahal, the VA’s undersecretary for health, also sought to address concerns VA providers in states with …

Cotton farmer Brian Adamek figures he’ll lose about $750 an acre on his 2,000-acre South Texas farm this year because of a summerlong drought that has plagued Texas. Record-high temperatures reaching over 100 degrees for 40 days this summer scorched the livelihoods of many Texas farmers and might affect next year’s crops, too. In the High Plains area around Lubbock and …

The last time Annie Collier went to the dentist was in 2014. After her retirement, Collier, who lives in the Jubilee community in southern Dallas, said she didn’t have the time or money to go to regular dentist appointments. For many in southern Dallas, keeping a healthy lifestyle is difficult. With few grocery stores, clinics, and dental offices in the …

Kyle Bass likes to bet big. So it’s fitting that the Dallas-based hedge fund manager, who shot to fame shorting mortgage debt in the lead up to the global financial crisis, is now fixated on the most abundant commodity in his home state: land. The market for Texas dirt, Bass said, “is big, and it’s real.” Bass, 53, is no …