Texas

The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and trying to block others from crossing the border from Mexico.

A San Antonio doctor who said he performed an abortion in defiance of a new Texas law has all but dared supporters of the state’s near-total ban on the procedure to try making an early example of him by filing a lawsuit — the only way the restrictions can be enforced. The state’s largest anti-abortion group said Monday that...

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is nearing a final plan to expel many of the thousands of Haitian migrants who have suddenly crossed into a Texas border city from Mexico and to fly them back to their Caribbean homeland

A US official says the Biden administration plans on the widescale expulsion of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border city on flights to Haiti starting Sunday

A man wanted on a murder charge in a Texas nightclub killing earlier this week was arrested Thursday morning in New Bedford, Massachusetts, police said. Denis Alexis Ocampo-Maldonado, 23, was found and arrested in an apartment building on Felton Street after being tracked down by state and local police, as well as U.S. Marshals and Massachusetts Parole Department officers, according…

Though many Californians jetted to Texas for a lower cost of living and tech jobs around Austin, some of them are now reconsidering their choice, says Washington Post Tech at Work writer Danielle Abril. The law bans abortions after 6 weeks, before many women even know they’re pregnant.

Drone footage taken after Hurricane Nicholas made landfall, shows the extent of the flooding in Sargent, Texas, and Carlyss, Louisiana.

Many city streets in Galveston, Texas, are underwater Tuesday after Hurricane Nicholas dumped 13 inches of rain on the area overnight.

Greg Abbott and Sylvester Turner both spoke Monday about the dangers posed by Tropical Storm Nicholas as it nears Texas.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned that other districts will be sued if they defy the state prohibition on mask mandates.

Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana.

The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues.

In a message to employees, Salesforce said on Friday that it will help employees and their families relocate if they’re concerned about reproductive care.

Abortion clinics in neighboring Oklahoma and nearby Kansas say they’re still seeing a high volume of patients from Texas as a new state law there banning most abortions remains in effect.

In a medication abortion, a pregnant person can end their pregnancy by taking mifepristone and misoprostol pills after medical consultation. Danielle Campoamor explains how the drugs work and how to check if they are legal in your state.

The Supreme Court, stacked 6-3 with conservative justices had rejected a bid to block the controversial Texas abortion law from taking effect.

Foes of the new Texas law that bans most abortions have been looking to the Democratic-run federal government to swoop in and knock down the most restrictive abortion law in effect in the country.

Both of Maine’s U.S. senators say they support Congress strengthening Roe v. Wade protections after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to block a restrictive Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy. The restriction also allows anyone in Texas to sue people who provide abortions, as well as people who help someone get receive...

Both of Maine’s U.S. senators say they support Congress strengthening the abortion protections from Roe v. Wade after Texas passed a controversial law prohibiting most of them.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday addressed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s comments on a new state law that outlaws most abortions with no exceptions for victims of rape.