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Texas
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 222 stories to Texas since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Texas.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Texas
10 storiesICE agent in Austin shoots Venezuelan man his lawyer calls a DoorDash driver with a work permit, and the wounded man is discharged into federal custody.
DA cites possible state-law violations
Former ICE agent Christian Castro surrenders in Minneapolis on assault charges for shooting a legal immigrant, months after Texas Gov. Abbott stalled his extradition.
$200,000 bail, federal court Friday
Deaths from ectopic pregnancies, which grow outside the womb and almost never survive, nearly doubled from 2020 to 2025 and rose fastest in states with strict abortion bans, ProPublica finds.
No federal response to the spike
Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump's antifa terrorism designation.
Congressional researchers say ANTIFA is not an organization
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials' objections.
Some children as young as 13, pregnant from rape
FAA declares "national defense airspace" over El Paso and grounds all flights for 10 days with no explanation, authorizing deadly force against aircraft that enter the restricted zone.
Closest comparison is 9/11 attacks
Family with active asylum case detained while taking 7-year-old to Portland emergency room; entered legally through CBP One, now held in Texas.
Active asylum case, 2028 court date
Medical examiner preliminarily rules death of Cuban immigrant at Texas detention camp a homicide, citing asphyxia from neck and chest compression during struggle with staff.
2025 deadliest year for ICE detainees in two decades
Border Patrol "predictive" units mine Americans' financial records and have local police pull over drivers suspected of no specific crime, 404 Media reveals.
Cover story: obstructed license plate
Texas education board approves high school social studies curriculum labeling early Islamic campaigns "brutal" and blaming 9/11 on "Radical Islam" rather than specific terrorist groups.
No other wars get that adjective
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesCivil rights groups sue ICE over conditions at the country's largest immigration detention camp, in Texas, where three detainees have died and inspectors logged nearly 50 violations.
Asylum seeker beaten, held in solitary
Texas Supreme Court rejects Gov. Abbott's bid to oust House Democratic leader Gene Wu and 12 others over August redistricting quorum break.
Former Abbott aide writes majority opinion
Federal judge releases Boulder firebomber's wife and five children held nearly a year in Texas family detention, finding political targeting by guilt-by-association.
Magistrate cited Trump post as evidence
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