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Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos and took twelve Muslim refugees back to Rome with him on his papal airplane. The Vatican issued a statement that the refugees included six children. The twelve included three families who have had their homes bombed during the Syrian war.

HOUSTON, Texas — Lawyers representing an indicted activist connected with undercover expose videos of Planned Parenthood urged in motions filed on Thursday that at a “press conference, Mr. Josh Schaffer, counsel for Planned Parenthood, boasted that he ‘explicitly pushed prosecutors’ to charge Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Merritt.”

Lawyers for David Daleiden, the undercover journalist who is connected with the Center for Medical Progress undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives, accused Harris County prosecutors of being in collusion with Planned Parenthood. Breitbart Texas spoke with lawyer Jared Woodfill who said, “We have clear evidence that the D.A. is colluding with Planned Parenthood.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is standing with Dallas business leaders against a pornography convention that is slated to be hosted in the city’s convention center. Paxton filed a brief today in federal court in support of stopping the sexually-oriented show.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil lawsuit against Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton and others on Monday, just one week to the day before the Texas AG will represent Texas and lead more than half the states in the nation at the U.S. Supreme Court in the executive amnesty case, the United States v. Texas. The federal government is appealing their loss in the lower district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Attorney General of Texas told Breitbart Texas, “That’s just creative timing by the Obama administration to file a lawsuit one week before I lead a twenty-six state coalition against his illegal immigration order.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has appointed a former chief of the Texas Rangers as new Commissioner of the disgraced Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). DFPS is the agency responsible for protecting abused and neglected children in the state. Breitbart Texas has reported about the abuses, problems, and overreach in the agency, particularly among CPS caseworkers. DFPS is also referred to as Child Protective Services or “CPS.” There have been horrific abuses of children who are in the state’s foster care system.

Texas Pastors who where hit with subpoenas during their fight against the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, dubbed “HERO” by the city’s first openly gay mayor, sent a letter to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant thanking him for signing a religious liberty

Two workers from the Grand Prairie, Texas, Child Protective Services office have been fired and another worker resigned after the agency was accused of not preventing the fatal beating death of a 4-year-old little girl in March.

In an apparent attempt at winning back the hearts of conservative voters, the Republican representatives are making cuts in their proposed budget for next year. Those cuts include cutting Obamacare and IRS tax credits for the children of illegal aliens.

The Office of the Texas Attorney General (OAG) is taking actions against local governments who are illegally or improperly posting signs prohibiting licensed Texans from carrying handguns. The OAG is starting a process to crack down on local governments that

Immigration officials in Mexico have been reported to be torturing Central Americans and others in an effort to stop illegal aliens from coming into their country.

Texas’ senior U.S. Senator says that building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is not the solution to border security. John Cornyn said during a tour of the border on Tuesday, “It’s more than just physical obstacles.”

A Houston Police Department officer led a prayer during a walk in a community in Houston that has been hit hard by violence and other crime.

“You need to make this patient go bye-bye,” a Texas hospice home owner is accused of texting his employee. The CPA who does not have a medical license, is accused of telling medical personnel to administer up to four times the amount of morphine recommended in order to accelerate client deaths and maximize profits.

An investigation by the FBI and a division of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) has led to two individuals in Mississippi pleading guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an organization that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

Two college students have been prosecuted for tying a rope and a Confederate flag around the statute of the first black American to attend the University of Mississippi.

The head of the National Border Patrol Council says a breach in the fence along a ten-mile area in remote areas of the Mexico-Arizona border should cause concern about terrorist threats.

A woman has been arrested after responding to a Facebook post from a Texas police department stating that methamphetamine and heroin may have been contaminated with the Ebola virus. The post asked concerned citizens to bring their drugs in for testing.

A Republican representative from Colorado has introduced a bill in Congress that would make it a hate crime to target a cop just because he or she is a police officer.

The South Carolina senate passed a bill which would make refugee sponsors liable for damages caused by crimes or terrorism committed by the refugees they sponsored. The vote came just one day after terrorists attacked the airport in Brussels, murdering 38 people, including 4 Americans.

The only Easter message from Planned Parenthood on Sunday morning asked people to sign a petition to “stop the investigations” into “PP health centers” and included “#StandWithPP.” As of the time of publication, neither @PPact or @PPFA had tweeted out any message for this Easter day.

The Houston affiliate of Planned Parenthood has filed legal documents to join in the California lawsuit against the pro-life group who took the undercover expose videos of its staff and clinic, the Center for Medical Progress.

A Florida man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for his role in a Halloween night KKK-style cross burning.

Truckers have partnered-up with the Attorney General of Texas to fight human trafficking in the Lone Star State.

A Texas Hispanic man was prosecuted and sentenced for making false statements in connection to a 2012 assault of a gay black man in Corpus Christi.

Protesters were outside the Waller County, Texas courthouse when Brian Encinia, a former Texas state trooper, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor court of perjury in connection with the arrest of Sandra Bland.

A man told a woman in Texas that he loved her and was going to marry her and then forced her into prostitution. This week he was sentenced to forty years in prison for trafficking of persons for prostitution.

Famed award-winning concert pianist, Vadym Kholodenko, found his daughters dead in their mother’s home in Texas. The girls, ages one and five, had no visible trauma but he found his estranged wife in a “distraught” state with multiple stab wounds. She has been charged with murder.

Abortions in Texas are down by almost 9,000 since 2014 in the Lone Star State. Texas legislators and pro-life activists are saying that this is “something to celebrate.”

President Barack Obama’s naming Judge Merrick Garland as his pick to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, has been front and center in the nation’s headlines. Not so high profile was his nomination of five lawyers to serve on federal district court benches in Texas.

A Texas coastal resident has been sentenced to fifty years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing child pornography. The man and his girlfriend had advertised on Craigs List saying they would provide babysitting services. He was found to be engaging in producing child porn when authorities investigated a call for sexual assault of a child.

The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has issued a report urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex.” They say endorsing “gender discordance” is “child abuse.”

A jury in Texas awarded $695,000 in damages against a couple whose dog bit a neighbor. The verdict followed a four day trial and half a day of deliberations.

In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having

A jury issued its guilty verdict yesterday against the only known living terrorist connected to the May 3, 2015 attack on the Muhammad Art exhibit in Garland, Texas. Although he had been raised Baptist and has the given name of “Decarus Thomas,” Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem was a convert to Islam.

Immigration-control advocates seeking to restrain the hiring of illegal alien workers in Oregon have won a challenge in the state’s highest court. A challenge was filed last year to ballot language certified by the Oregon attorney general.