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El Periodico USA Staff Community News October 27, 2025

Cornyn: Texas Border Region to Receive $3.4M to Hire Police Officers

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Community
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured October 27, 2025

Feds slash the budget for program that helped 65,000 Texans enroll for health insurance

Terri Langford, The Texas Tribune About this time of year, Foundation Communities would be getting its latest group of specially
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El Periodico USA Staff Education October 25, 2025

Early voting for Texas’ 17 statewide propositions is under way. Here’s what voters need to

María Méndez, The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to
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El Periodico USA Staff Education October 25, 2025

Texas Education Agency takes over Fort Worth ISD, replacing its elected school board

Jaden Edison, Ayden Runnels, Colleen DeGuzman and Sneha Dey, The Texas Tribune The Texas Education Agency will boot the democratically-elected
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El Periodico USA Staff Education October 25, 2025

Texas Republicans are redefining higher ed. It’s creating confusion about free speech on campuses.

Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune At colleges across Texas last month, a series of viral campus videos, abrupt professor firings,
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured October 25, 2025

Trump taps Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell for assistant secretary of defense

Alejandro Serrano, The Texas Tribune President Donald Trump this week nominated Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell to serve as an assistant
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El Periodico USA Staff Community News October 24, 2025

United States: Federal Agents Use Excessive Force in Illinois

Protesters, Journalists, Medics Targeted Outside Immigration Detention Facility Federal law enforcement agents have since mid-September used excessive force against peaceful
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured October 24, 2025

Nonprofits Urge ICE to End Detention of Pregnant People Following Reports of Abuse and Medical

Letter to ICE leadership details shackling, solitary confinement, and a miscarriage without care in Louisiana and Georgia facilities WASHINGTON —
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured October 24, 2025

Americans Under Attack: A Rising Number of U.S. Citizens Are Being Wrongfully Detained in Trump’s

Washington, D.C. — Trump’s mass deportation agenda has descended into chaos, as new research from ProPublica reveals more than 170 documented cases of
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El Periodico USA Staff Featured October 24, 2025

This newly drawn Houston district could unearth tensions between Democrats of color

Gabby Birenbaum, The Texas Tribune When Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map this summer, Latino Democrats in Houston saw
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