J. David Goodman

The killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston has become the latest crime seized on by Republicans to attack President Biden over his immigration policies.

Families in Uvalde, Texas, have sued a video game, a gun maker and Instagram, claiming they helped to groom and equip the shooter.

The prosecutor accused the governor of violating the constitutional separation of powers doctrine by intervening with the actions of a court.

Many saw in the jury’s finding a rejection of themselves, of their values and even of democracy itself.

Initial reactions nationwide to former President Donald J. Trump’s conviction on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.

The speaker of the State House, Dade Phelan, survived a primary challenge from a Trump-backed activist, but many other Republican incumbents were ousted in bitter primary races.

Dade Phelan, the speaker of the Texas House, defeated a party activist and first-time candidate backed by former President Donald J. Trump in a bitter contest.

The unusual lawsuits filed on Friday are among the most far-reaching to be filed in response to the escalating number of mass shootings in the United States.

The Texas city agreed to pay $2 million to families of schoolchildren who were shot in a 2022 massacre, and to overhaul its police force. The families are also suing other agencies.

As stifling heat settled over the city, the local electricity provider said most service would return by late Sunday. But hard-hit areas could remain dark for days longer.

Hurricane-strength winds swept through the city, but without the warnings that come with a hurricane. The storm left shocked residents and a landscape of debris.

School officials canceled classes in the city on Friday, and hundreds of thousands were left without power. It may take as much as 48 hours to restore power to some customers.

The man, Daniel S. Perry, was convicted of killing a protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin.

A trial had been set to hear evidence that organizers of a 2021 Travis Scott concert knew the crowd was too large and ignored pleas to stop it as 10 people were crushed.

The abrupt retirement of Chief Troy Finner followed months of scrutiny into 260,000 crime reports, including for sexual assault, that were suspended for a “lack of personnel.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who expects to be on the ballot in Texas, could prove to be a wild card in the U.S. Senate race, which Ted Cruz had appeared likely to win.

Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.

Officers at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond used riot gear and pepper spray.

Days after a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, at least 50 people were arrested after new tents were erected on the Austin campus.

University officials had started suspending students that refused to leave the encampment on campus, hoping to ease the situation. Instead, it appeared that the protest was expanding on campus.

More than 400 demonstrators across the country have been taken into police custody since arrests at Columbia University in New York set off a wave of student activism nationwide.

There were more than 120 new arrests as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University.

The arrest marked at least the second time in the last year that National Guard members in Texas had been caught trying to transport migrants from the border.

The decision in favor of the federal government left in place a trial court injunction while courts determine whether the measure is legal.

Nearly a decade after his indictment for securities fraud, Mr. Paxton will pay restitution, take legal ethics classes and do community service as part of an agreement with prosecutors.

The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has spent $10 billion building his own border security network. In Eagle Pass, where it has been concentrated, far fewer migrants have been crossing this year.

The Tulsa County district attorney said a fight involving the nonbinary student in an Oklahoma high school bathroom was “mutual combat.” The death has been ruled a suicide.

This stretch of the southern border, in Eagle Pass, Texas, is at the center of an immigration standoff between Texas and the Biden administration.

This was featured in live coverage.

This was featured in live coverage.

As dizzying legal developments sowed confusion along the border, an appeals court panel appeared split over whether Texas’ migrant arrest law should remain on hold while the court fight continues.

The Texas governor has rallied Republicans by pushing the boundaries of what a governor can do when it comes to immigration. Now he’s in a head-to-head confrontation with the Biden administration.

There was no immediate response along the border after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Texas police to arrest and deport migrants. Officials have not said when enforcement would begin.

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Two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent died in the crash in Texas during what the military says was a routine mission on the border.

The conclusion came as a utility company said its facilities in the Texas Panhandle “appear to have been involved in an ignition” of the fire, which has burned more than one million acres.

The Republican attorney general succeeded in defeating some politicians and judges who opposed him. But Democrats showed they also know how to punish incumbents.

Dade Phelan’s failure to secure his seat on Tuesday indicated that fights over the future direction of the Republican Party in Texas would continue roiling the state.

The Dallas-area congressman presented himself as an across-the-aisle politician who could appeal to a wide range of voters.

The incumbent, Kim Ogg, had made herself a lightning rod within her party by tacking to the center and clashing with fellow Democrats.

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An L.G.B.T.Q. organization had sued after the state’s attorney general asked for documents on children receiving gender-affirming care.

Attorney General Ken Paxton is out for revenge. Gov. Greg Abbott wants private school vouchers. Both want to bring down incumbent Republicans in Tuesday’s primary and shift the state further to the right.

The U.S. Department of Education said it had opened an investigation into whether a high school “failed to appropriately respond” to reports of harassment of Nex Benedict, who died a day after a fight in a school bathroom.

The largest fire, Smokehouse Creek, burned over one million acres but is now 74 percent contained.

Some rain and snow slowed the spread on Friday of the biggest wildfire on record in state history, but warm, dry and windy conditions were forecast to return on Saturday.

The ruling halts implementation of a law that would allow police officers to arrest and expel migrants, a victory for the federal government in its clash with Texas over immigration powers.

A state known for its wide open spaces has now seen more than a million acres of them burned in the largest wildfire on record in Texas history, with two confirmed deaths.

One of the wildfires, the Smokehouse Creek fire near the cattle-country town of Canadian, is now the second-largest ever recorded in Texas.

The videos released by the Houston police left open the question of who shot a 7-year-old boy as his mother, armed with an assault-style rifle, exchanged fire with off-duty officers.

Nex Benedict, 16, died one day after an altercation with classmates in a school bathroom in Oklahoma. The death was later ruled a suicide.

The police released video of the student, Nex Benedict, recounting the altercation a day before their death, which has drawn national scrutiny.

The Oklahoma school superintendent, Ryan Walters, said “radical leftists” had created a narrative about the death of 16-year-old Nex Benedict that “hasn’t been true.”

The student, who did not identify as male or female, according to their family, died a day after an altercation in a school bathroom. The police said the death was not a result of trauma.

Samuel, born three months premature, had already faced challenges for much of his life as his mother battled mental illness, family members say. Now he is in a fight for his life.

At the center of a dispute over immigration enforcement along the Texas border, an unusual golf course operates alongside National Guard troops, Humvees and rolls of concertina wire.

A law that would allow state and local law enforcement officers to apprehend and expel unauthorized migrants is enmeshed in a legal and political firestorm.

A woman who opened fire at Lakewood Church engaged in “antisemitic rants” and kept guns in the house even after being involuntarily hospitalized for mental illness, her mother-in-law said.

Officials said a 36-year-old woman who opened fire at Lakewood Church, which is led by the televangelist Joel Osteen, had a documented history of arrests and mental illness. She was killed by off-duty officers.