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Texas has become the most populous state to ban gender-affirming care for minors after Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation on Friday.

Texas would become the largest state to ban gender-affirming care for transgender children under a bill sent Wednesday night to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has previously ordered child welfare officials to investigate such treatment as abuse.

A U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder in the fatal shooting of an armed protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Texas was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday morning.

The assailant who killed eight people at a Texas outlet mall has been identified by authorities as a 33-year-old man who had been staying at a nearby motel.

The beautiful life Wilson Garcia, an Honduran immigrant, had built for his wife and three children was shattered when his neighbor burst into his Cleveland, Texas, home on April 28 and fatally shot five people, including his wife and 9-year-old son.

Greg Abbott speaks after beating Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke to win another term as Texas governor.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott won a third term Tuesday, defeating Democrat Beto O’Rourke.

After months of campaigning and millions of dollars spent, Texans will decide Tuesday whether Republican Gov. Greg Abbott deserves another four years in Austin or if it’s time to usher in change with Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke.

The deadliest classroom shooting in Texas history has cast a long shadow in the midterm elections, intensifying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ’s campaign against Democrat Beto O’Rourke.

Two busloads of migrants to the United States were dropped off early Thursday near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. 

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued an emergency disaster proclamation Wednesday in an effort to assist the state with resources as Texas continues to bus groups of migrants to Chicago. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

In addition to to issuing a proclamation Wednesday, Pritzker’s office also stated that Texas has been transporting asylum-seeking families and individuals to Illinois with “no advance notice and with no coordination with the state of Illinois or the City of Chicago.”

A northwest suburb of Chicago is expected to host 90 asylum-seekers from Texas, but the village’s mayor said he wasn’t afforded much time — or notice — to prepare for the migrants’ arrival.

As more buses of migrants continue to arrive in Chicago from Texas — a plan from Gov. Greg Abbott designed to bus asylum-seekers off to northern, Democrat-led “sanctuary cities” — the mayor of a western Chicago suburb says he was left in the dark after 64 migrants arrived in his village this week.

A recent group of refugees bused to Chicago from Texas as part of an initiative from Gov. Greg Abbott has since been transported to temporary housing in suburban Burr Ridge, a move that village officials say they were not aware of. NBC 5’s JC Navarrete reports.

A western Chicago suburb says it was unaware that 64 migrants would be transported to their village.

With busloads of asylum-seekers being transported from Texas to Chicago as part of a controversial new program, many are in need of supplies and donations as they begin the next part of their journeys.

With busloads of asylum-seekers being transported from Texas to Chicago as part of a controversial new program, many are in need of supplies and donations as they begin the next part of their journeys.

Less than a week after Texas bussed a group of asylum-seekers to Chicago in a program that has sparked much controversy, an additional 50 arrived in the city Sunday. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.

Less than a week after Texas bussed a group of asylum-seekers to Chicago in a program that has sparked much controversy, an additional 50 arrived in the city Sunday.