Texas Legislature takes up contentious voting bills in special session
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The Texas Legislature is back to work for a special session that's set to tackle key conservative issues and renew the fight over voting rights.
Texas Democrats walked out on a session in May to block a bill that would have overhauled the state's election laws. Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican leaders have said passing an election bill is one of their top priorities during the special session. Two bills introduced by Republicans are closely aligned with the final version of SB 7, the bill that failed to pass in May. Both chambers will be holding public hearings on their bills on Saturday. For this session, the House bill is HB 3 and the Senate version is SB 1.Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife are making end-of-life preparations for their 3-year-old son after he was found unconscious in a creek, a close family friend said in updates posted on social media and confirmed to CBS affiliate KUTV. The boy had been playing on his tractor before he ended up in the water and a mile downstream.
The launch of Boeing's star-crossed Starliner spacecraft on its first piloted test flight is slipping to at least June 1 to give engineers more time to assess a small-but-persistent helium leak in the capsule's propulsion system, and its potential impact across all phases of flight, NASA announced Wednesday.
Washington — As former President Donald Trump's "hush money" criminal trial in New York proceeds to closing arguments next week, the legal focus is moving south. His attorneys and longtime aide Walt Nauta appeared before Florida federal Judge Aileen Cannon, where they sparred with prosecutors during two contentious, day-long hearings on Wednesday.