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![San Antonio's LBGTQ community organized a counter protest to the group "This Is Texas Freedom Force" that planned an armed, protest of "A Drag Queen Christmas" at the Aztec Theater.]()
Author of Texas anti-drag bill explains wearing a dress in videoIn a video posted to social media, state Rep. Nate Schatzline, R-Fort Worth, appears in a sequined dress.By Taylor Goldenstein
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![Paola Miranda leads a class in the STEM lab Tuesday, July 26, 2022, at Aldine ISD's Ermel Elementary School in Houston.]()
Task force calls for 'significant increase' in Texas teacher payState has the largest teacher labor market in the country but pays them well below the national average, leading to shortages.By Benjamin Wermund
San Antonio
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![Rosie Castro (center) is congratulated by supporters after City Council votes to appoint her as the interim District 7 councilperson to replace Ana Sandoval on Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023. Castro will be officially sworn in to office on Thursday - a position she will hold for at least the next three months.]()
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![âWhat do we want? Justice. When do we want it? now,â shouts 10-year-old Caitlyne Gonzales, center, as she helps lead Texans marching from First Baptist Church of Austin to the Capitol building in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.]()
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![Congressman Joaquin Castro at a press conference in 2022. Castro had surgery this week to remove tumors.]()
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![FILE ?‘ A package of Mifepristone, the first of two drugs typically taken for a medication abortion, which is authorized for patients up to 10 weeks into pregnancy, in Honaunau, Hawaii, on June 28, 2019. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, the legal and culture wars over abortion that have consumed the United States for decades would increasingly be fought on a new front: abortion pills. (Michelle Mishina-Kunz/The New York Times)]()
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![District 7 Councilwoman Ana Sandoval reacts as City Manager Erik Walsh offers his congratulations to her as Sandoval attends her last council session and resigns her seat on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. Sandoval served five-and-half years for her district.]()
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![District 10 Councilman Clayton Perry (left) joins council members for the start of a council meeting on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023.]()
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![Attendees browse through weapons displayed on the show floor during the 2022 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Friday, May 27, 2022 in Houston.]()
![James O'Brien (cq) works on the roof Wednesday morning Jan. 11, 2012 of Greater Faith Institutional Church on Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive near where the city's MLK March will begin Monday. The mural was painted to coincide with the march, the nation's largest honoring the late civil rights leader. (William Luther/wluther@express-news.net)]()
Fact check: Is MLK's 'I Have a Dream' required reading in Texas?Accusatory tweet aimed at Gov. Abbott by Democratic strategist got 9 million views.By Nusaiba Mizan
Texas
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![Crystal Mason talks about her experiences being prosecuted for casting a provisional ballot during a press conference, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at the Community of Faith Church in Houston.]()
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![Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a “Parental Empowerment Night” in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 31, 2023.Photo courtesy Office of the Governor]()
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![DPS Director Steve McCraw gives a statement during a press conference after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott toured the Houston lab on Thursday, July 14, 2022.]()
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![FILE - Ecuadorian immigrant Neptali Chiluisa shows the app that he uses for reporting his location to Immigration authorities, during an interview Oct. 21, 2021, in New York. U.S. immigration authorities are turning to smartphones to keep tabs on immigrants and ensure they attend their deportation hearings. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)]()
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![FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during a rally featuring former President Donald Trump, Oct. 22, 2022, in Robstown, Texas. Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who had long been leading the probe, according to state prosecutors.]()
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![The Avalos family have lunch together in Juarez before boarding their flight home. Pictured above are Jaime Avalos, Naimeh Salem, baby Noah, Yarianna Martinez and Congressman Al Green.]()
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![Kerrville State Hospital.]()
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![U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, center, has been leading Republican opposition to an immigration bill from U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, that would require the federal government to detain asylum seekers while their claims are being decided.]()
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![The downtown Austin skyline of Austin, Texas.]()
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![Gov. Greg Abbott held his State of the State address at Noveon Magnetics, a rare earth magnet manufacturing facility in San Marcos, Thursday night, Feb. 16, 2023.]()
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![Student debt relief advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Arguments at the Supreme Court over President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation left some borrowers feeling isolated as they heard such a personal subject reduced to cold legal language.]()
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![In this photo taken during Feb. 26 - March 1, 2023 and provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party at its headquarters in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)]()
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![FILE - Zoe Schell, from Topeka, Kan., stands on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse during a rally to protest the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion, June 24, 2022, in Topeka. Seven months after a decisive statewide vote affirmed abortion rights in Kansas, the Republican-controlled Legislature’s annual session in some ways looks a lot like previous ones, with multiple anti-abortion proposals.]()
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![FILE - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, left, applauds as Sen. Edward Kennedy waves to cheering delegates at the Democratic National Convention in New York's Madison Square Garden, Aug. 14, 1980. As Carter receives home hospice care at the age of 98, misconceptions about his life are coming into focus. Most are rooted in some truth but need more context.]()
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![FILE - Otero County, New Mexico Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks to reporters as he arrives at federal court in Washington, June 17, 2022. A jury will consider this week whether the support group Cowboys for Trump and cofounder Couy Griffin violated state election law by failing to register as a political organization without filing related public financial disclosures. A two-day trial was scheduled to start Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Alamogordo, N.M.]()
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![FILE - Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, laughs with Greenwood County, S.C., Council Woman, Edith Childs, right, in Aiken, S.C., on Oct. 6, 2007. Obama is marking the retirement of the South Carolina woman credited with popularizing the chant "Fired up, ready to go!" The chant came to epitomize Obama's two presidential campaigns. The former president says Childs' energy played a key role in lifting his spirits and his candidacy.]()
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![FILE - Tourists ride classic convertible cars on the Malecon beside the United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, Oct. 3, 2017. U.S. intelligence agencies cannot link a foreign adversary to any of the incidents associated with so-called “Havana syndrome,” the hundreds of cases of brain injuries and other symptoms reported by American personnel around the world. The findings released Wednesday by American intelligence officials cast doubt on the longstanding suspicions by many people who reported cases that Russia or another country may have been running a global campaign to harass or attack Americans using some form of directed energy.]()
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![FILE - This June 1968 photo shows Sirhan Sirhan, right, accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, with his attorney Russell E. Parsons in Los Angeles. In 2021, a California parole board voted to free Robert F. Kennedy's assassin but the decision was overturned by the governor. Sirhan Sirhan will once again appear before the board Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at a hearing at a federal prison in San Diego County to again seek their approval for his release.]()
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![FILE - Dozens of tribe members and other protesters beating drums and waving signs rally in front of the federal courthouse in Reno, Nev., Jan. 5, 2023, as a court hearing began over a lawsuit seeking to block a huge lithium mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line about 200 miles north of Reno. On Wednesday, March 1, a federal appeals court cleared the way for construction in Nevada of the largest lithium mine in the U.S. while it considers claims by conservationists and tribes that the government illegally approved it in a rush to produce raw materials for electric vehicle batteries.]()
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![Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., right, speaks about the proposed legislation dubbed the "Parents Bill of Rights," Wednesday, March 1, 2023, next to Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., on Capitol Hill in Washington.]()
