A Texas judge issued a preliminary injunction Saturday against a federal mandate aimed to protect transgender people, finding that the federal health rule violates existing law.
2016
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The Price of Admission: A series on the fight over the Top 10 Percent Rule
In March, we launched our series looking at the fight over the Texas’ Top 10 Percent Rule and the quest to make Texas’ top universities look more like Texas. Read all of the stories in “The Price of Admission” series here.
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2016 Year in Review
What a year it was: Here are some of our top video stories from 2016
Politically speaking, 2016 was one for the history books. Here’s a look back at some of The Texas Tribune’s top 2016 video stories.
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2016 Year in Review
Slideshow: 2016 Texas news in photos
Take a look at the top Texas Tribune images of 2016, which show everything from Donald Trump campaigning in Austin to a fight over a Texas abortion law at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Criminal Justice
Texas Rangers launch criminal probe into Dallas’ pension shortfall
Mayor Mike Rawlings blames former pension administration for a “grave breach of trust,” but it’s unclear who is the target of the state inquiry.
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Texas Supreme Court agrees to hear legal fight between regent and chancellor
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments in the long-running legal fight between University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall and Chancellor Bill McRaven.
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Politics
Susan Combs, Henry Bonilla meet with Trump amid agriculture secretary search
Former Comptroller Susan Combs and former U.S. Rep. Henry Bonilla met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday as he continues to search for an agriculture secretary. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller met Friday with Trump officials.
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Politics
Here are our most-read Texas stories from 2016
A wild election year gave us a lot to write about. Here are some of the most-read stories of 2016.
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2016 Year in Review
Trump the top topic for TribTalk in 2016
Election years in Texas are never for the faint of heart, but 2016 proved even more chaotic than usual — and everyone who wrote for TribTalk had an opinion on the direction the state and country are headed.
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Unholstered: A look at police shootings in Texas
This year, we launched “Unholstered, a multi-part, data-driven investigation that looks at when and why officers used lethal force in Texas between 2010 and 2015. Learn about what we found here.