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AG sues Texas utility over customers’ sky-high energy bills

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' attorney general said Monday he's suing electricity provider Griddy for passing along massive bills to its customers during last...

Texas reports 197 more COVID-19 deaths, 3,636 cases

DALLAS (AP) — Texas reported 197 more deaths from COVID-19 Sunday following a steady decline in the number of people hospitalized with the disease...

Protesters demand ERCOT take responsibility for disastrous failure

Lee Rood Austin American-Statesman AUSTIN, Texas — About 50 people gathered Sunday afternoon outside ERCOT's campus in suburban Austin, demanding the nonprofit that controls about...

Poll: Texas Voters think election results are accurate, question U.S. results

By Ross Ramsey | Texas Tribune A large majority of Texas voters think the state’s official election results are just fine, but 30% think national...

President gets look at recovery efforts, vaccine ‘super site’

By Todd J. Gillman | Dallas Morning News HOUSTON — President Joe Biden visited Houston on Friday afternoon to survey the aftermath of last week’s winter storms...

290 more Texas COVID-19 deaths reported; new cases fewer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas reported 290 more deaths Friday from the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to plummet. The Texas...

Biden surveys Texas weather damage, thanks emergency workers

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — President Joe Biden heard firsthand from Texans clobbered by this month's brutal winter weather on Friday as...

National Guard deployed to get COVID-19 vaccines to older homebound Texans

By Karen Brooks Harper, Texas Tribune Some 1,100 members of the Texas National Guard will administer vaccines to older people in their homes in rural...

Energy executive: Texas power plants turned off in crisis

By PAUL J. WEBER and DAVID KOENIG | Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The recent blackouts that left 4 million Texas customers without electricity...

Judge indefinitely blocks Biden administration’s 100-day deportation freeze

By Julián Aguilar, Texas Tribune A federal judge in Texas put an indefinite halt to President Joe Biden’s 100-day ban on deportations late Tuesday. The ruling...