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  Texas Lawmakers Leading the Anti-Abortion Effort Take a Gentler, More Tactical Approach

  May 22 at 4 a.m.

  Last week, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a piece of anti-abortion legislation that left Texas, one of the pro-life movement's biggest hotbeds, in the dust. Thanks to Kemp's signature, Georgia law now bans any abortion occurring more than six weeks into a pregnancy, creating an almost impossible window for women...

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  Texas On Its Way to Raising Smoking Age to 21

  May 15 at 4 a.m.

  Barring an upset, Texas looks poised to become the 14th state to raise its smoking age, after the Texas House passed an amended version of a Senate bill raising the state's tobacco-use age on Tuesday. Under the bill, the purchasing age for all tobacco products in the state would be...

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  Dallas Sick Leave Ordinance Back From the Dead

  April 19 at 4 a.m.

  Nine months after a petition drive to get an ordinance requiring paid sick leave for everyone who works in Dallas went down in flames, the Dallas City Council will take up a similar ordinance. Wednesday, the council will decide whether city code will require all Dallas employers to credit their...

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  Ex-U.S. National Team Swimmer Says Dallas Clinic Sold Her Tainted Vitamins

  April 17 at 4 a.m.

  A former University of Texas All-American and U.S. National Team swimmer sued a Dallas clinic Tuesday, claiming a multivitamin she bought from the clinic led to a 2018 doping suspension. FINA, international swimming's governing body, suspended Madisyn Cox for two years in March 2018 after she tested positive for trimetazidine,...

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  Texas Tech Med School Agrees To Stop Considering Race in Admissions

  April 11 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Tech University's medical school will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions, as part of an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center officials signed the agreement in February, but it was first reported this week by the Wall Street Journal...

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  North Texas Hit With Fourth Measles Case of 2019

  March 22 at 4 a.m.

  Tarrant County is the latest area in North Texas to have a resident come down with measles, county health officials said Thursday. The unnamed county resident makes 14 confirmed cases in Texas and four in North Texas so far in 2019, more than in the last four years combined. According...