Nov 13 Watch 6:11 In El Paso, hospitals are rushing to accommodate COVID-19 surge The coronavirus set all kinds of records in the United States this week -- none of them good. More than 67,000 people are hospitalized, and the country has averaged close to 1,000 deaths per day for the past week. In… Continue watching
Nov 11 Texas tops 1 million cases as COVID-19 surge engulfs the U.S. By David Crary, Associated Press Across the U.S., over 10.3 million cases have been recorded. Cases per day are now on the rise in 49 states, and deaths per day are climbing in 39. Continue reading
Nov 04 Despite blue push, Texas stays red By Paul Weber, Associated Press The election results in Texas dealt another demoralizing blow to Texas Democrats who set massive expectations of victories that would shake the country. Continue reading
Nov 03 Republican John Cornyn wins Texas Senate race By Associated Press Cornyn defeated Democrat MJ Hegar in his hardest-fought reelection battle in almost two decades. Continue reading
Nov 03 Appeals court declines to ban drive-thru voting in Houston By Associated Press The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has rejected an eleventh hour Republican effort to bar Election Day drive-thru voting in Houston in a one-sentence ruling issued late Monday. Continue reading
Nov 02 Judge rejects GOP effort to throw out 127,000 Houston votes By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press The county is the nation's third largest and a crucial battleground in Texas, where President Donald Trump and Republicans are bracing for the closest election in decades on Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 30 Texas early voting exceeds total of all 2016 ballots By Will Weissert, Paul J. Weber, Associated Press That signals an unprecedented surge of voting in a state that was once the country's most reliably Republican but may be drifting toward legitimate battleground status. Continue reading
Oct 30 WATCH: Harris holds campaign rally in McAllen, Texas By Will Weissert, Paul J. Weber, Associated Press Texas' surprising status as a battleground came into clearer focus as Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris devoted one of the race's final days to campaigning across America's largest red state. Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch 4:01 A Texas regulatory board removed discrimination protections. Critics are fighting back By Ivette Feliciano Earlier this month a Texas regulatory board voted to remove discrimination protections for some seeking social services. The protections had prohibited social workers from turning away clients on the basis of disability, gender identity or sexual orientation. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch 4:28 The 2020 race heats up in Texas as votes pour in By PBS NewsHour Nearly 7 million Texans have already cast their 2020 ballots—that’s around 70 percent of overall voter turnout in 2016. With races heating up at both the state and national level, KERA reporter Bret Jaspers joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the… Continue watching