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Top Stories: Polls Are Open For State Primary Runoff Elections

Shelby Knowles
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The Texas Tribune

It’s Election Day for the . This will settle races in May in which Republicans or Democrats failed to get at least 50 percent of the vote.

Other stories this morning:

  • A federal appeals court today will hear arguments on the state’s . The U.S. Supreme Court last month rejected an emergency appeal to stop Texas from enforcing the voter ID law. But justices said they could revisit the issue if the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals doesn’t issue a ruling by late July.
  • ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôºâ€™s catching up with students we’ve been following since the 8th grade in our American Graduate series, Now that they’re juniors, they have to decide what comes after graduation. Chance Hawkins has to consider that while battling a degenerative muscle disease. 

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº 90.1 FM. 

Former ËÄ»¢Ó°Ôº staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and ËÄ»¢Ó°ÔºNews.org. She also produced The Friday Conversation, a weekly series of conversations with North Texas newsmakers. Krystina was also the backup newscaster for the Texas Standard.