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Five children were found alone in their Texas home. They say their parents were kidnapped at gunpoint

The parents were found safe and unharmed about 24 hours later - but the full story of the kidnapping has yet to emerge, Amelia Neath writes

The Independent UK

SI:AM | The Five Biggest Narratives of This NFL Season

Here’s what to watch for over the next 18 weeks.

Sports Illustrated

Steve Spurrier Makes Bold Claim About Colorado-Nebraska, Alabama-Texas Games

Deion Sanders and the Buffaloes became the biggest story in college football after the Week 1 win.

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Mystery as parents ‘kidnapped’ from Texas home with five children left behind alone

Parents were found safe roughly 24 hours after alleged kidnapping

The Independent UK

Up First briefing: Sudan's humanitarian crisis; Texas floating border; office jargon

The U.N. says 400,000 have fled from Sudan to Chad. A judge rules floating border barrier in Texas must be removed. Circling back to the most annoying office jargon.

WEKU

Private equity profits from climate disaster clean-up – while investing in fossil fuels

Exclusive: Study shows resilience workers, mostly refugees and immigrants, poorly protected as top firms ‘pad their pockets by cutting costs’

The Guardian - US

Texas AG Paxton proves MAGA loves crooks

Like Trump, the ridiculously corrupt politician talks smack on social media, but won't testify in his own defense

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Texas’ political environment driving faculty to leave, survey finds

After legislators passed laws banning diversity initiatives and targeting tenure at state universities, more than a quarter of the 1,900 Texas professors surveyed by faculty associations said they plan to look for positions out of state.

The Texas Tribune

Texas just recorded its second hottest summer on record

The average temperature in Texas this summer was 85.3 degrees, putting it behind only 2011 for summer misery.

The Texas Tribune

Texas avoids rolling blackouts during evening grid emergency

ERCOT has called on generators to push all available electricity to the grid as rising demand threatens to surpass the state’s power supply. If that fails, rolling blackouts are likely to begin.

The Texas Tribune

Federal Court Rules Against Texas in Case Where State Claimed Immigration and Drug Smuggling Qualify as "Invasion"

The court ruled that the definition of "invasion" is a political question, and that Texas therefore could not rely on the Invasion Clause to justify placing buoys in the Rio Grande River in defiance of federal law.

Reason

Ken Paxton’s top deputy, the first impeachment witness, describes an attorney general out of control

Jeff Mateer testified that Paxton was so intent on helping Austin real estate investor Nate Paul that he worried the attorney general was being blackmailed.

The Texas Tribune

US judge orders Texas to remove controversial border buoys from Rio Grande

The ruling is a win for the Biden administration, which sued the state over floating barriers criticised by Mexico.

Al Jazeera

Texas ordered to remove buoys meant to block migrants from Rio Grande River

Preliminary order issued by judge David Ezra requires the floaters to be relocated to an embankment on the state side of the river

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The floating border barrier in the Rio Grande must be removed, a federal judge rules

The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.

The Texas Tribune

Texas prison system issues statewide lockdown to combat illegal drugs, inmate violence

The state has canceled all visits to Texas prison inmates until a comprehensive search of all 100 correctional facilities for contraband has been completed.

The Texas Tribune

Texas can keep buoys in the Rio Grande while legal challenge continues, federal appeals court rules

Nearly three months after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of the 1,000-foot line of buoys and mesh in the Rio Grande, an Austin federal judge ordered the state to remove the barrier and stop building further obstructions in the river. One day later a higher court sided with Texas.

The Independent UK

Judge orders Texas officials to remove floating buoys along Rio Grande border

Early victory for Biden administration in legal fight with Governor Greg Abbott’s anti-migrant efforts

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The Independent UK

A judge orders Texas to move a floating barrier used to deter migrants to the bank of the Rio Grande

A federal judge has ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande by Sept. 15

Ballotpedia

Two new candidates declare in Texas

Ballotpedia tracked two new state-level candidates in Texas between Aug. 28 and Sept. 3. This was equal to the number of candidates tracked last week.

The Independent UK

Ex-teammates – but not always friends – Scherzer and Verlander to face each other for first time

Three-time Cy Young Award winners Max Scherzer of Texas and Justin Verlander of Houston are set to pitch against each other for the first time

The Independent UK

Texas prison lockdown over drug murders renews worries about lack of air conditioning in heat wave

Officials say the Texas prison system’s 100 units have been placed on a statewide lockdown due to a series of drug-related inmate homicides

USA Today Sports Media Group

Golfweek’s 2023-24 men’s college golf preseason team rankings

Take a look at the top men's college golf teams heading into the 2023-24 season.

RideApart

Texas State Law Now Officially Outlaws Lane Splitting And Filtering

As of September 2023, motorcycle riders in Texas cannot legally lane split or lane filter thanks to an amendment to the state's existing transportation code.

Texas Observer

Ken Paxton Repeatedly Refused to Defend State Agencies in Court

An investigation by ProPublica and TexasTribune found that the Attorney General forced taxpayers to pay for their defense instead.

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