The Trump White House will also be looking to Texas for some of its staffing. Paige Willey, communications director for Paxton, will join the White House as deputy assistant for economic policy and Ryan Baasch, associated deputy Attorney General, will be a special assistant for economic policy, according to Bloomberg.

Two Texas Democrats voted to ban transgender athletes in girls sports on Tuesday. Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar voted yes on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. The bill passed 218-206.

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

Temperatures will rise to nearly 70 degrees by Friday, but then plummet over the weekend and next week. Wind chills could fall into the teens.

Precip may start as rain, but as temps fall to the freezing mark after sunset Monday, a transition to freezing rain and sleet is expected.

Snow, freezing rain and rain are underway in the southern Plains as a potent winter storm strengthens Thursday.

Austin was just behind Washington in a ranking of Southern tech hubs. The Dallas-Fort Worth metro placed fourth and Houston placed ninth.

Johntay Cook and Washington have parted ways just a couple of weeks after the former 5-star committed to the program.

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An arctic air mass sprawling across the eastern, central and parts of the western U.S. on Monday will channel temperatures 20-30 degrees below already historically cold January averages and was poised to slam parts of the South with a disruptive winter storm.