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Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a complaint in federal district court against HHS and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) challenging a recently issued rule strengthening ...

The panel wants to review those cases, which have been excluded from state data for years, and other reforms amid a report ...

LUBBOCK — Texas filed a lawsuit against the ... It appears to be the first legal challenge from a state with an abortion ban that took effect after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling that ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas has sued the ... It appears to be the first legal challenge from a state with an abortion ban that ...

Texas has sued the Biden administration to try to block ... It appears to be the first legal challenge from a state with an ...