Texas Legislature. The House Select Committee on Governmental Oversight convened at 9:03 a.m. Wednesday in Capitol Extension room E2.026, and Chair Cody Vasut said it would take up the New Mexico counties item last, after two other items. The committee is hearing invited and public testimony on adding one or more contiguous New Mexico counties to Texas, according to the hearing notice. The committee’s charge covers the constitutional, statutory, fiscal and economic implications of the change and the procedural steps it would take.
Texas courts. The Texas Supreme Court ruled September 25 that a divorce a Houston businessman obtained in Pakistan without notice to his wife cannot be recognized in Texas, in an unsigned opinion in Azhar v. Choudhri. The couple had accumulated more than $100 million in community assets during the marriage, the opinion says. “Other countries are welcome to conclude otherwise, but their judgments are not entitled to comity in a Texas court,” the justices wrote. The case returns to the trial court in Harris County.
Consumer protection. Baby food maker Plum Organics agreed to hold its products to set limits on heavy metals and to keep publishing test results for products sold in Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office announced Tuesday. The company will not ship any lot that tests above the limits, including a standard of 10 parts per billion for mercury in its pouches. Paxton’s office announced its investigation of Plum and other manufacturers in August 2025.
Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the federal government to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own while the case continues, pausing a February order from a federal district judge, CBS News reported. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the request. The court will hear arguments in December.
Alberta. Federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told a crowd of more than 100 in Edmonton on Tuesday that he supports a united Canada, less than three weeks before Alberta’s October 19 referendum, CBC News reported. “Many Albertans are legitimately frustrated that a costly and controlling, big and bossy government has gone far beyond its jurisdictional boundaries in Ottawa,” he said. Poilievre said leaving Canada would not improve Alberta’s circumstances.
Hong Kong. National security police reportedly arrested Tang Ho-wing, who runs the online outlet Boom News, at 7 a.m. Wednesday on suspicion of publishing false information, Hong Kong Free Press reported. Police had not confirmed the arrest to the outlet when it published.
Tibet. A U.S. congressional delegation that included House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast met the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, India, on Wednesday, the news agency ANI reported. Asked for a message to China, Rep. James Gallagher said: “Stop oppressing your people and allow everyone to live free. Allow for self-determination, for freedom of religion, for freedom of culture.”
TNM calendar. Two county events are on the Texas Nationalist Movement’s public calendar this weekend. Volunteers in Lockhart will carry clipboards through First Friday at 5 p.m. October 2, starting from City Hall, the Caldwell County listing says. An information table on Texas independence opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, October 3, on the courthouse square in Llano, per the Llano County listing.
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