Texas Tribune Brief

Spend a day with Isabel Suarez, an 18-year-old Pflugerville High School senior who's taking on the challenges of virtual school as well as tutoring her two younger siblings during the pandemic.

Gov. Greg Abbott said he has not yet gotten the vaccine but will “at the appropriate time."

Universities across Texas and nationwide are seeing an increase in online cheating since the start of the pandemic, as students take more virtual courses and test remotely with less supervision.

Electors across the country affirmed Biden’s victory, but the Texas electors refused to admit Trump’s defeat.

Four Texas sites received a total of 19,500 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, the first phase of a rollout that will put a quarter-million doses into 109 Texas facilities this week — with more on the way next week.

The lawsuit challenged election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. The high court said Texas did not have standing to bring the case.

In the weekend edition of The Brief podcast, Gwen McMillan Lawe reflects on the challenges she and other Black and LatinX voters faced at the polls in November.

Donald Trump's legal team filed to intervene in the Texas lawsuit contesting the election results on Wednesday. The president asked U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to argue the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, if it agrees to hear it.

One of the board members said the state needs to be more cautious about getting back to normal — especially with a new legislative session set to begin next month.

The shake-ups come in response to an independent review of the Texas base’s command climate and are an effort to correct a yearslong culture of sexual assault and a pattern of violence there.