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In the shadow of James Byrd’s murder, city leaders can’t agree how to move this East Texas town forward

Jasper’s second Black mayor wants to help residents pay their bills while a younger city council wants to invest in the city’s culture. Residents call their heated arguments at city council meetings “foolishness” and “embarrassing.”

The Texas Tribune

‘An understaffed and broken system’: 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid as others struggle to access SNAP benefits

Texas Democrats in Congress are urging the federal government to audit the state’s Medicaid eligibility system

The Texas Tribune

Travis King: Soldier returns to US on military flight after North Korea expulsion

Travis King arrived on Thursday at an armed forces base in Texas on a military flight

Evening Standard

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US soldier who fled to North Korea in July lands at Texas military base

Travis King arrived on US military flight and will undergo medical review and reintegration process

The Guardian - UK

Video appears to show Pvt. Travis King's return to U.S. landing in San Antonio, Texas

The American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago has arrived back in the U.S. in San Antonio, Texas early Thursday, local affiliate video appeared to show

The Independent UK

After sending busloads of migrants to NYC, Texas governor visits city to fault Biden for crisis

For more than a year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been busing migrants from the southern U.S. border to places like New York, Washington and Chicago

The Independent UK

Man pleads guilty to smuggling-related charges over Texas deaths of 53 migrants in tractor-trailer

One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to smuggling-related charges

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Ald. Beale takes a page from Texas Gov. Abbott’s playbook on migrant emergency

Ald. Anthony Beale wants voters to consider undoing the city’s Welcoming City ordinance, a move that panders to Gov. Greg Abbott and the anti-immigrant crowd.

Chicago Sun-Times

One new candidate declares in Texas

Ballotpedia tracked one new state-level candidate in Texas between Sept. 18 and Sept. 24. This was two fewer candidates than the prior week.

Ballotpedia

Top-5 most watchable college football games of Week 5

We've assembled this handy list of the five most watchable games of the weekend.

USA Today Sports Media Group

How the looming government shutdown will affect Texans

A federal shutdown would put thousands of Texans in financial precarity. Congress has less than a week left until the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, and a shutdown appears imminent.

The Texas Tribune

Rep. John Smithee emerges as House hero among Paxton supporters, floated for speaker

On the day the House impeached Ken Paxton, Smithee delivered a 20 minute speech, criticizing the impeachment process as opaque, rushed and unfair to the accused.

The Texas Tribune

A Texas county that borders New Mexico is the latest to consider an abortion travel ban

Cochran County commissioners meet Thursday to discuss the ban. Abortion-rights supporters say the bans are unenforceable and meant to stoke fear.

The Texas Tribune

Nonprofit drug treatment center for low-income Texas teens shutters amid opioid crisis

Phoenix House is the latest casualty in an escalating funding crisis for Texas treatment centers as the state struggles with startling increases in overdose deaths, particularly among young people.

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Soldier Travis King faced disciplinary action in the US so he fled to North Korea. Now he’s back in US custody

Leaving prison in South Korea, King was set to be returned to Fort Bliss, Texas – but he had other plans. Gustaf Kilander and Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports

Reason

Federal Judge Rules Texas Anti-Drag Law Violates the First Amendment

The judge ruled that the law was unconstitutionally overbroad, vague, and viewpoint discrimination.

The Independent UK

Rising star Jasmine Amy Rogers is tapped to play iconic Betty Boop in new stage musical

The actor picked to play the iconic, baby-faced flapper Betty Boop in a new stage musical is a triple threat from Texas with a contagious laugh

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | Two More Playoff Spots Clinched

The Phillies and Brewers punched their tickets to October.

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Tesla To Build 22K-Square-Foot Cafeteria For Growing Giga Texas Workforce

With an estimated cost of $10.5 million that includes various renovation and alteration work, the Cyber Cafeteria will occupy 22,639 square feet of space.

The Texas Tribune

The 2023 Texas Tribune Festival in photos

Here’s a look back at the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival through the eyes of Tribune photographers.

The Texas Tribune

Delayed passage of farm bill stirs uncertainty for Texas agriculture

The must-pass package of legislation known as the farm bill, which is renewed every five years, funds critical crop insurance and loans to farmers and food to low-income families.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Latino Democrats call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign after bribery indictment

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar pushed back on the New Jersey Democrat’s defense that he was being targeted for his ethnicity.

Ballotpedia

Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey: Texas roundup

Texas is holding elections, including for school boards and legislative offices, on Nov. 7, 2023, and March 5, 2024, respectively. A number of candidates running in these elections completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for…

WEKU

An annular solar eclipse is coming to parts of the U.S. in October

Residents from Oregon to Texas may be able to glimpse the annular eclipse, when the moon is deep in its orbit and passes in front of the sun, creating a black circle on the star.

The Texas Tribune

Dallas selected as one of three national hubs for new medical innovation federal agency

The city joins Cambridge, Mass. and the Washington, D.C. area as epicenters of the new agency. A Biden administration initiative, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will work toward medical breakthroughs in treating diseases like cancer, Alzheimer and diabetes.

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