Greg Abbott

U.S. 11/24/21, 16:11

Texas will receive its largest-ever foreign direct investment from Samsung, as the South Korean electronics giant builds a $17 billion semiconductor factory in the Lone Star State. Gov. Greg Abbott's (R) office announced Samsung will build a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, lifting the multinational's total investment in Texas to ...

U.S. 11/15/21, 16:54

A Democrat declared his intention to replace the Texas governor on Nov. 15. Beto O'Rourke wants to govern the Lone Star State. "I am running for governor," he said on Twitter. "Together, we can push past the small and divisive politics that we see in Texas today–and get back to the big, ...

Europe 11/02/21, 16:20

A surge in illegal border crossings prompted Bulgaria to deploy hundreds of troops to secure the country's borders on Nov. 1. The Department of Defense has sent 350 soldiers to support migration police at the borders between Bulgaria, Turkey, and Greece. "350 people with some 40 units of equipment have been sent," ...

Central America 10/18/21, 16:52

Southern border counties face a "serious threat to their homes and lives" due to a jump in armed Mexican drug trafficking attacks. This is the dire assessment of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R). Abbott used a nationally televised interview to blame President Joe Biden and his Democratic border policies for causing ...

U.S. 10/07/21, 16:57

Nine Republican governors visited the Rio Grande Vally border with Mexico on Oct. 6. They warned the border crisis is also a "drug crisis," referring to the explosion of fentanyl and methamphetamine across the Southern border. The group met with Col. Steve McCraw, who provided a disturbing update. The Texas Department ...

U.S. 09/19/21, 01:55

Texas’s state law enforcement has stormed the border and secure it with scores of vehicles in a small border town where thousands of Haitian migrants gathered under a bridge before the Biden administration is expected to deploy the flights to expel them. Gov. Greg Abbott announced in a tweet on Saturday, ...

U.S. 09/18/21, 16:39

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, Sept. 17, signed the state’s House Bill 9 into law, which will provide an additional $1.8 billion in state funding for border security over the next two years. "Our border crisis goes beyond the Rio Grande Valley and our South Texas communities—the smuggling of drugs, ...

U.S. 09/07/21, 15:43

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a new election integrity bill into law that is promised to make it "easier to vote and harder to cheat" on Sept. 7. "Election integrity is now law in Texas," he said on Twitter. The governor revealed the legislation increases identification requirements. It also makes it ...

U.S. 09/06/21, 16:51

Firearm owners may carry concealed guns anywhere in Texas without needing to obtain a state permit starting from Sept. 1. House Bill 1927, also known as the constitutional carry law, lets Texans quietly bear arms on public property without requiring a license. The legislation, which Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed into ...

News 09/02/21, 18:01

U.S. Supreme Court judges ruled 5-4 against blocking new Texas legislation that prohibits most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy on Sept. 1. The rule will remain in place while legal challenges are heard in lower courts. Abortion-provider plaintiffs failed to reach the necessary threshold for the Supreme Court to issue ...

U.S. 08/22/21, 16:55

A Republican from Texas does not seem to be suffering from the deadly disease anymore, a medical examination found. Gov. Greg Abbott tested negative to COVID-19 on Aug. 21. The result came four days after being diagnosed with the breakthrough infection. "I am now testing negative for COVID," he said on Twitter. Abbott ...

News 08/20/21, 15:45

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Thursday, Aug. 19, that the state would deploy additional medical personnel and launch more COVID-19 antibody infusion centers over the next week.  "Front-line health care workers across our state are working tirelessly to keep Texans healthy and safe," said Abbott in a statement. "The substantial increase of infusion ...

D.C. 08/10/21, 16:27

A Texas district judge blocked Gov. Greg Abbott (R) from arresting dozens of state House Democrats who avoided their duties by fleeing to Washington. Judge Brad Urrutia (D) in Travis County, which includes Texas Capitol in Austin, issued a temporary restraining order that prevents state police from "detaining, confining, or otherwise ...

D.C. 08/09/21, 16:20

Twenty-two Democrats who fled Texas launched a lawsuit against GOP state officials for trying to make them return to the Lone Star State. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and fellow Republican state lawmakers recently issued civil warrants to compel more than 50 state Democrats to stop avoiding their obligations to Texan taxpayers. ...

U.S. 08/04/21, 19:24

A federal judge in El Paso blocked a Texas executive order that restricts migrant transport on Aug. 3. Kathleen Cardone issued a temporary restraining order on GOP Gov. Greg Abbott's latest plan to minimize COVID-19 infections. The governor wanted the Texas Department of Public Safety to check vehicles and reroute them, ...

New York 08/02/21, 04:33

Eric Trump wants the international community to make the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) completely end its forced organ harvesting practices. The Vassar College adjunct instructor, who has the same name as former President Donald Trump's second son, hopes the CCP will stop butchering its own people to sell each organ for ...

News 07/21/21, 18:47

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a landmark bill that automatically bans abortions across the Lone Star State. The legislation now depends on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the federal Roe v. Wade landmark decision. Texas lawmakers are optimistic about their chances of restricting abortion practices across the state to the ...

U.S. 07/21/21, 15:44

Texas has begun building its own border fence along the southern border as promised by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to stop illegal migrants from entering the United States through the state, though the Biden administration sabotaged the completion of the border wall started by form President Donald Trump. In a couple ...

D.C. 07/19/21, 21:15

Five Texas Democrats contracted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus after leaving their home state. The lawmakers traveled to Washington to starve Republican peers of a quorum needed for an election integrity bill's passage. A group of more than 50 state Democrats traveled together on multiple chartered planes to the nation's ...

D.C. 07/13/21, 17:33

Texas Legislature Democrats fled to Washington on July 12 in protest of Republican-led election reforms. Multiple private jets took off from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, carrying a large group of Democrats. The GOP accuses them of deliberately abandoning their legislative responsibilities just days before the Texas House of Representatives was due to ...