Ken Paxton opened an industry-wide probe into protein powder makers after Consumer Reports and the Clean Label Project flagged elevated heavy-metal levels.

A Baker Institute brief finds individual health-plan premiums at Texas universities vary from about $8,095 to $15,742 and family plans from $23,037 to $48,636, with market structure cited as a driver.

Highly pathogenic H5N1 has been confirmed in a Texas dairy herd; the farm is quarantined and investigators are testing animals while the FDA says pasteurized milk is safe.