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On Friday, some Silicon Valley tech companies also began speaking out.Lyft CEO Logan Green said the company will pay legal fees for any drivers brought to justice under the law. "TX SB8 threatens to punish drivers for taking people where…

On GitHub, a website for sharing and collaborating on software code, another programmer, Jonathan Díaz, released a script and posted a link on Thursday to a new app, Pro-Life Buster, which allowed people to automatically spam the Texas…

A Texas law banning most abortions after about six weeks of gestation went into effect Wednesday, despite the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling establishing a constitutional right to the procedure governing the state's access to abortion services…

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he had tested negative for the coronavirus four days after testing positive. He said he would remain in quarantine at the recommendation of the doctors.In a video posted on Twitter, Mr.…

Here’s what you need to know:Construction workers set up tents outside of Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston on Aug. 9. Hospital officials plan to use the tents to handle an overflow of Covid patients as cases surge in…

AUSTIN, Texas - On Monday, as rising temperatures drove Texas power demand to a June record, state regulators urged citizens to use less power or face a repeat of February's fatal outages, which saw 69 percent of Texans were without…

Corporations across the country are at the center of a swirling partisan debate over voting rights. With Republicans pushing laws in almost every state that would make it difficult for some people to vote, companies are under pressure from…

Radoslav Zilinsky moment | Getty ImagesScientists at Texas A & M University's Global Health Research Complex have reportedly discovered a new variant of Covid-19 that shows signs of an infectious strain that causes more serious…

In California, insurers were able to point to a since amended law that made utilities liable for the fires that started their equipment, even without negligence found. In Texas, the law requires proof of gross negligence. And last month,…

The intensive care unit and the pulmonologist Dr. Vin Gupta have beaten up Republican governors of Arizona, Florida, and Texas for reopening prematurely, particularly as new variants are taking hold across the country. "What the governors…