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Senate Bill 1146 would encourage the owners of leases or mineral rights to which abandoned oil and gas wells are attached to plug the wells by reducing their potential legal liability for taking action. The bill passed its final legislative hurdle Thursday morning and is heading for Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

A day after India suspended a water-sharing treaty and downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan, authorities in Islamabad closed airspace to Indian aircraft and suspended all trade with India.

A jury concluded that The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who had argued that an error in a 2017 Times editorial damaged her reputation.

Columbus Day is still a federal holiday — though some no longer want to celebrate the Italian explorer, and many jurisdictions also mark Indigenous Peoples Day.

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.

The artist died in a house fire in Woodbury, Minn. on Thursday.

Paxton, along with 11 other state attorneys general, signed on to letters accusing 20 major law firms of potentially breaking state and federal law with hiring policies meant to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion.

Second lady Usha Vance has scrapped a plan to attend Greenland's national dog sled race this week. But American tax dollars will help support the race anyway.

A tiny accelerator could be useful in medicine as well as basic science. Instead of speeding up beams of electrons through giant tunnels, the aim here is to build accelerators on semiconductor chips.