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Workers place scaffolding by buoys on the Rio Grande south of Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, July 12, 2023.

Photo by: Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

DOJ says they will sue Texas over buoy wall barrier in Rio Grande

The Department of Justice is ready to sue Gov. Greg Abbott over the floating buoy barrier he deployed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the river from Mexico.

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M. Katherine Banks, vice chancellor for engineering and national laboratories for the Texas A&M University System, was named the sole finalist to be president of Texas A&M in March 2021.

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Texas A&M President M. Katherine Banks resigns after botched hiring of journalism director

Banks resigned her position amid the botched hiring of a prominent Black professor to resurrect its journalism department, ending a two-year administration marked with broader conflict over her leadership style and massive changes.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and state Sen. John Whitmire are pictured together in this composite photo.

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Jackson Lee, Whitmire broke Houston ordinance when accepting campaign donations from contractors

Mayoral hopefuls state Sen. John Whitmire and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee have both accepted campaign donations from city contractors during prohibited periods, breaking a Houston ordinance designed to limit donors' influence in City Hall.

Migrants cross the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, Thursday, July 20, 2023. With Operation Lone Star, Texas has set up a barrier of box cars and concertina wire to deter migrants from entering the U.S. through the state. They are forced to wade the water or walk the banks to an entry point several miles south of Eagle Pass.

Photo by: Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News

Democrats in Congress want Biden to do more about Abbott's border tactics

Their letter, organized by U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, was signed by 80 members of Congress.

FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on a patient. COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Texas' maternal mortality rates have more than doubled since 1999, report says

A new report by the JAMA shows that women are more likely to die during childbirth or soon after in the south, especially Texas where the maternal mortality rates have doubled.

FILE - Singer Tony Bennett performs at the Statue of Liberty Museum opening celebration in New York on May 15, 2019. Bennett has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease but the diagnosis hasn't quieted his legendary voice. The singer's wife and son reveal in the latest edition of AARP The Magazine that Bennett was first diagnosed in 2016. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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Remembering Tony Bennett, the jazz legend who gave me one of my first big interviews

Iconic singer Tony Bennett died Friday. The 96-year old had a huge impact on the American music scene and the Houston Chronicle's Andrew Dansby who was a young freelance writer then.

Fernando De La Garza looks over at TXDot employees on the Interstate Highway Loop 610 Southbound construction site on Thursday, July 13, 2023 in Houston.

Photo by: Alyssa Gisselle Olvera, Staff Photographer

Think again about driving to Galveston this weekend as major freeway closings complicate traffic

Getting to the beach or the Galleria this weekend could take some twists and turns, as weekend freeway work along Interstate 45 in Webster and Interstate 69 near Uptown threaten to upend travel.