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A man faces misdemeanor graffiti charges after being caught overnight attempting to restore an Oak Lawn rainbow crosswalk just one day after the city began a state-mandated removal of the displays.

Rainbow crosswalks in Oak Lawn were removed Monday morning as Dallas works to comply with a state safety mandate to remove political messaging from public roadways.

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the state's attorney general’s office to demand records from PFLAG, reversing a lower court's decision that had shielded the LGBTQ+ advocacy group from a broad investigation into medical care for transgender minors.

A Texas law banning certain drag performances which was previously blocked by a federal court will now be allowed to be enforced starting next month. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against a pediatric doctor and children's hospital, claiming they illegally provided gender-transition treatments to minors and billed Medicaid using misleading codes.

The Trump administration has removed the LGBTQ+ pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument.

The former instructor claims the school violated her constitutional rights and illegally broke their contract with her when she was terminated last year.

Dallas is set to be the next major Texas city to comply with a TxDOT directive to remove decorative road markings or risk losing road funding. 

In the latest move in Texas' campaign to bar gender and race ideology from education, an intro-level philosophy course at Texas A&M University has had sections of Plato's writings removed.

Texas was no stranger to news — from a contentious legislative cycle, to ongoing immigration control efforts, to natural disasters, the Lone Star State was a leading location in the U.S. for headlines.

The change follows a request from the city to be exempt from the department's order, which was denied late last month.

It all started in 2021, when a community in a small county near Austin decided to rid their public library's shelves of “inappropriate” literature.

The Arlington City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on reinstating the city’s anti-discrimination chapter in its city code, a move that follows a temporary suspension of the rules related to federal grant requirements.

Here's a look at how the new bathroom bill affects the average Texan, as well as how the steep fines for breaking the rules will work.

The move comes after the Texas A&M system's similar set of rules were put in place, following a controversy that ended in demotions, a firing and a resignation.

The Texas attorney general said that it was a matter of “the radical left" “crushing the dreams" of women.

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal from a former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court's ruling in 2015.

In the exemption letter, the city manager wrote that the Oak Lawn rainbow crosswalks have not created any safety issues, removing them would require public money not included in the city's budget, and they're a form of self-expression that should be protected. 

The expert says it might be some time before we see if it has an impact on same-sex couples in Texas finding a judge to marry them.