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FILE – In this Oct. 2, 2021, file photo, people attend the Women’s March ATX rally, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. A federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend a new law that has banned most abortions in the state since September. The order Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman freezes for now the strict abortion law known as Senate Bill 8. (AP Photo/Stephen Spillman, File) CER902 CER902

October 6, 2021 at 8:59 pm

Abortions resume in some Texas clinics after judge halts law VIEW

The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law that took effect in September. But abortion services...

Families stand outside the Mansfield ISD Center for the Performing Arts waiting to be reunited with their children, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021 in Mansfield, Texas, following a shooting at the Timberview High School in Arlington. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) TXTG103 TXTG103

October 6, 2021 at 8:28 am

Student taken into custody hours after Texas school shooting VIEW

An 18-year-old student opened fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school on Wednesday, injuring four people and then fleeing before being taken into...

September 20, 2021 at 1:03 pm

Texas doctor who defied state’s new abortion ban is sued

A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has been sued by two people seeking to...

September 9, 2021 at 2:06 pm

EXPLAINER: Texas law gives limited window for abortions

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has said someone seeking an abortion has “at least six weeks” to terminate the pregnancy under the state's new abortion law

September 7, 2021 at 5:47 pm

Texas governor defends abortion law with no rape exceptions

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is defending a new state law banning most abortions that also offers no exceptions for cases of rape or incest

September 7, 2021 at 12:29 pm

Activists focus on tip site in protesting Texas abortion law

Young people on social media are protesting Texas' new law banning most abortions by focusing on a website established by the state’s largest anti-abortion group...

September 4, 2021 at 9:30 am

Judge shields some Texas abortion clinics from group’s suits

A judge has temporarily shielded some Texas abortion clinics from being sued by the state’s largest anti-abortion group under a new law banning most abortions

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load people being evacuated from Afghanistan onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Force via AP) DCJE605 DCJE605

August 25, 2021 at 8:11 am

EXPLAINER: What’s happening with Afghanistan evacuations? VIEW

More than 82,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on Aug. 14. Those who make it out face...

In this Dec. 18, 2018, photo, Zelene Blancas, a first-grade bilingual teacher at Dr. Sue Shook Elementary School in El Paso, Texas, shows the Twitter video she posted of her students hugging one another after class that went viral. Blancas died of COVID-19 in Dec. 2020. (Rudy Gutierrez/The El Paso Times via AP) TXELP107 TXELP107

August 18, 2021 at 7:29 am

Texas teacher’s legacy of kindness lives on after her death VIEW

Searching for a way to honor Texas teacher Zelene Blancas after her death late last year from COVID-19, a fellow educator over 2,000 miles away...

Megan Carlton with the Refugee Services of Texas walks through a home her organization set up for an Afghani refugee family in Dallas, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero) TXMO202 TXMO202

August 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm

‘Do not give up’: Americans help Afghans in new homeland VIEW

Across the U.S., Americans are scrambling to help Afghans fleeing their country after the Taliban's takeover. Driven by compassion, those pitching in include everyone from...

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