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From The Newsroom: State Lawmakers To Examine Planned Parenthood; Carbon Nanotubes With A Twist

Todd Wiseman / Callie Richmond
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The Texas Tribune

The top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is expect to testify before the Senate Health and Human Services Committee over whether Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas are illegally profiting from the sale of tissue of aborted fetuses. 

And electricity without wires may become a possibility within the next decade thanks to a UT Dallas creation that puts a twist, literally, on carbon nanotubes.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:20 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM. 

Former KERA staffer Krystina Martinez was an assistant producer. She produced local content for Morning Edition and KERANews.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.