Perry encourages supporters in Perry, Iowa
Republican presidential hopeful Texas Gov. Rick Perry encourages his supporters at a campaign rally on January 2, 2012 in Perry, Iowa. Iowa holds their first-in-the-nation caucus for the 2012 election on Tuesday. UPI/Brian Kersey
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Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who staged a 13-hour filibuster against anti-abortion legislation in June, said she has announced her bid for the governorship.
Texas has pulled out of a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking to block the planned American Airlines-US Airways merger, the state's attorney general said.
Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Texas over a new abortion law the group says would close a third of abortion clinics in the state.
Even though she isn't a formal gubernatorial candidate, Democratic Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis says she's already getting smeared by the opposition.
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who gained prominence for filibustering a bill restricting abortion in the state, has told supporters she will run for governor.
Wallace Jefferson, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, will resign at the end of September, the court announced Tuesday.
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, who created a national buzz by filibustering a bill restricting abortion, says she will run for one of two offices next year.
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President Barack Obama, in an about-face, has declared as a major disaster a small Texas town devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion.
Gov. Rick Perry signed Texas' strict new abortion law Thursday, saying it shows the state's "continuing commitment to protect life."
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