A short roundup of the day's news, Texas first, then self-determination news from other countries. Every item is a paragraph with a link to the source.
Screwworm cases climb to 65 with new cattle detections in Hudspeth County, the comptroller puts a fraud tip button in front of every state employee, Alberta finishes its referendum count, and a White House adviser blames Alberta’s vote for stalled trade talks.
A federal appeals court upholds the Texas law keeping a China-owned company off the state’s power grid, the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to restart Big Bend border construction, Frisco approves...
Texas environmental regulators tell the governor data center permits are paused as an advocacy group says some kept moving, the state asks a federal judge to end oversight of foster care, Parti...
Albertans vote by a wide margin to remain in Canada, the Texas comptroller opens a whistleblower portal for reports of tax fraud and misuse of state money, the governor says a Boca...
Albertans vote today on whether to begin the legal process toward a binding referendum on leaving Canada, an analysis finds Texas schools referred children 10 to 13 for prosecution more than 47,000...
Governor Greg Abbott asks Washington for tax relief after the July floods, the state awards $78 million in rural health grants, a Railroad Commissioner presses for industrial reuse of oilfield water, and...
Texas voter registration passes a record 19 million two days before early voting, Temu settles the attorney general’s data privacy lawsuit, Washington closes fiscal 2026 nearly $2 trillion in the red, and...
Lockheed Martin puts $300 million into its Grand Prairie missile plant with 2,000 Texas jobs planned, Texas stands to receive up to $57.8 million from an Albertsons opioid settlement, the governor fills...
Texas counties clear a backlog of more than 500,000 stalled voter registrations, the attorney general sues Gerber and Nestle over heavy metals in baby food, Albertans line up at advance polls before...
Voting rights groups sue Texas over more than 500,000 unprocessed voter registrations, the state awards $3.7 million to rebuild job-training programs at 13 colleges, a former Alberta premier warns that separatists could...
A Maryland company’s nuclear project enters the Texas grid queue, five Texas colleges win approval for Workforce Pell grants, the state awards $20 million in job-training grants, Texas congressmen press the Justice...
Texas appeals the federal order to air condition every state prison, Austin’s school district faces the cost of state intervention, Corpus Christi’s desalination plant is still unbuilt after $50 million, Alberta opens...
The state finalizes its ninth Texas Energy Fund loan for a West Texas gas plant, local sales tax allocations rise 11.6 percent, senators hear that educator misconduct reports more than tripled, and...
