Weather Update: Delhi-NCR braces for heavy rains, IMD warns of thunderstorm in Noida, Gurugram, Ghaziabad
The river continues to flow above the danger mark of 205.33 metres. Officials said the all-time high was 208.66 metres.
Corpus Christi’s water supply is uncertain after City Council ends water treatment plans
Years of blundering and project delays have pushed the South Texas city to the brink of crisis as drought bears down and industrial water use grows.
Texas lawmakers at odds over ending massive water exports from East Texas
State. Rep. Cody Harris won’t accept Senate changes allowing exports to continue while the state studies its underground water supply.
Proposal limiting Texas city, county property taxes loses steam
The House refused to back a bill that would apply only to the state’s largest cities.
Most Texas THC products expected to remain legal amid legislative impasse
Legislators have apparently failed to reach a last-minute deal to tighten regulations on consumable hemp products.
Texas sued over its lab-grown meat ban
Two California-based companies accuse the state of government overreach for banning the sale of their products for the next two years.
Texas is poised to replace STAAR. Here is what schools’ new standardized tests would look like.
A bill scrapping the state’s standardized test heads over to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk. It would replace STAAR with three shorter tests at the beginning, middle and end of the year.
Texas student groups sue to block state law that limits campus protests
The law, largely in response to pro-Palestinian protests last year, bans “expressive activity” on campuses from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. The lawsuit says it is overly broad and will affect protected speech.
Texas kids’ camps must remove cabins from floodplains, operate warning systems under new rules nearing approval
The state House and Senate on Wednesday advanced similar camp safety bills to each others’ chambers. The parents of children who died at Camp Mystic advocated for the new legislation.
Trump asks Supreme Court for urgent ruling on tariff powers as ‘stakes could not be higher’
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to quickly make a decision on whether President Donald Trump has the authority to impose his sweeping tariffs under federal emergency law. This appeal is a result of a federal appeals court ruling 7-4 that a vast majority of Trump’s tariffs were illegal according to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act even though it allowed the duties to remain until the case was resolved. Many states and small businesses challenged Trump’s tariffs in a lawsuit saying they were causing serious economic harm. FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN TRUMP TARIFFS AS ILLEGAL UNDER FEDERAL LAW IN APPEALS RULING “These unlawful tariffs are inflicting serious harm on small businesses and jeopardizing their survival,” said Jeffrey Schwab, an attorney with the Liberty Justice Center. The Trump administration, however, countered the appeal, arguing that striking down the tariffs could cause serious economic harm. “That decision casts a pall of uncertainty upon ongoing foreign negotiations that the President has been pursuing through tariffs over the past five months, jeopardizing both already negotiated framework deals and ongoing negotiations,” the Trump administration argued in its appeal. “The stakes in this case could not be higher.” TRUMP’S TARIFF POWER GRAB BARRELS TOWARD SUPREME COURT Officials also pointed out that the levies have raised $159 billion since late August, a figure that has more than doubled from the previous year. Although the Constitution does give Congress the power to set tariffs throughout the years many lawmakers have delegated those authorities to the White House. Although Trump has been seen to use this to his advantage, some of his duties on steel, aluminum, autos, and earlier tariffs on China were left in place by former President Joe Biden and are not part of this case. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Legal experts have noted that the government has also warned that if the courts strike down these tariffs, the U.S. Treasury could be forced to refund billions that have already been collected. The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon on whether they will take up the case directly, which will potentially set up a major ruling on the limits of presidential power over trade.