AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — Three Houston mothers are suing to stop displaying the Ten Commandments in Texas public school classrooms, arguing it violates the state’s religious freedom law and a voter-approved parental rights amendment. Their lawsuit is the latest challenge to Senate Bill 10 — this time under Texas law. Other attempts to prohibit the…
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) has introduced legislation that would prevent the federal government from using eminent domain or federal funding to construct border security infrastructure on or near Mount Cristo Rey, a prominent Catholic pilgrimage site overlooking the border region of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. The Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act comes after the federal…
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane lands at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Chicago on March 7, 2026. Kevin Carter | Getty Images How volatile are fuel markets this year? Southwest Airlines hired a ship this spring to send jet fuel from Texas to California, where prices are much higher and concerns had…
Autonomous vessel maker Saronic is set to build Port Alpha, a shipyard the company describes as the most advanced in the world, at the Port of Brownsville, Texas. The announcement builds on an eventful few weeks for the company’s Corsair drone boats. On July 12, three Corsairs struck Iran’s Bandar Abbas naval base in what…
Dallas-area Democrats are demanding that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be investigated for illegal voting after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that he has repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live. In a complaint filed Tuesday, the Collin County Democratic Party asked the Texas secretary of…
Severe flooding has struck parts of Texas following days of heavy rainfall, prompting evacuations and water rescues across the region. The storms have impacted several counties near the Mexico border, with the Guadalupe River rising more than 25 feet in just one hour. Residents have been urged to shelter in place, while thousands of people…
AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — It was just past 9 p.m. on June 22, during the Texas State Board of Education meeting, when Shaimaa Zayan, a staffer with the Austin chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was called up to testify. She braced herself, knowing what was coming. “Can we have a leader of a…
Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud. “Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of a thriving republic, and with the authority granted to my office by the Legislature, we will…
Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” rebounds a spot for another history-making week atop the Billboard Hot 100. With an 11th week in command, the song becomes the sole longest-leading Hot 100 No. 1 by a woman with a country hit, defined as those that have hit Billboard’s multimetric Hot Country Songs chart. It breaks out of…
The operator of Camp Mystic filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, almost a year after catastrophic flooding killed 28 people there. The company, Camp Mystic L.L.C., submitted a Chapter 11 filing in a Texas bankruptcy court for itself and related companies. The filing was another turn in the aftermath of a disaster that scarred the…
