Texas became the latest state to enact a host of public health measures driven by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda with new laws taking aim at additives and sugary foods.

Texas utilities plan to spend much more money to build and upgrade power lines to accommodate data centers and other ...

Soon, hundreds of bills passed earlier this year by Texas’ 89th Legislature will go into effect. As of Monday, Sept. 1, Texas will have a whopping 835 new laws on the books. These measures touch ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks about the state of American health care at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025 during Gov. Greg Abbott’s signing of the Make ...

Texas lawmakers passed the “Women’s Privacy Act” earlier this year. It requires a person in publicly owned buildings to use restrooms, locker rooms, and similar ...

Transgender advocates protest in the exterior rotunda at the Texas state Capitol on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, in Austin, Texas. Texas lawmakers passed a bill this year that requires transgender people ...

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