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A new law lets schools use safety funds to pay for unlicensed chaplains working in mental health roles. Supporters say it helps address student mental health while critics blast it as a Christian nationalist attempt to convert children to a specific form of faith.
A year and a half after enacting one of the strictest abortion laws in the country, Texas finally saw a test case.
Timothy Murray was put in solitary confinement after reporting Principal Myrta Garza for bullying.
Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, put herself and her heartbreaking pregnancy story into the public eye to force an answer to an urgent question: How serious is Texas about enforcing its new abortion laws?
The Dallas mom’s case drew national attention and forced the abortion issue before the state Supreme Court. She ended up traveling out of state to terminate her non-viable pregnancy.