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Texas high school shooter Timothy Simpkins found guilty of attempted capital murder

Texas high school shooter Timothy Simpkins was found guilty of attempted capital murder Thursday for a 2021 shooting that injured three people.

Tribune News Service

Miami’s 100-degree heat fuels push to mandate worker relief

As a brutal heat wave covers much of the U.S. in record temperatures, labor groups are pushing for measures to protect outdoor workers by mandating water breaks and periods out of the blazing sun.

Tribune News Service

Texas women detailed agonising pregnancies after being denied abortions. The state blames doctors

Four women relived their traumas during two days of harrowing courtroom testimony against the state’s anti-abortion law. Texas attorneys questioned them about their age, doctors, and whether state officials personally told them they couldn’t get an abortion, Alex Woodward reports

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EPA will decide if the state is doing enough to reduce pollution in two East Texas counties

The federal agency has settled a lawsuit the Sierra Club brought over pollution from a coal-burning power plant. The agreement requires the EPA to weigh in on the state’s plan to improve air quality in Rusk and Panola counties.

The Texas Tribune

Buoys, razor wire, and a Trump-y wall: How Greg Abbott turned the Rio Grande into an immigration ‘war zone’

Texas governor has funnelled $12bn into a military-style border buildup with floating walls and razor wire. Josh Marcus speaks with a local business owner and lifelong riverman who’s suing the state to stop it

The Independent UK

Nation’s largest homebuilder sees sales soar despite higher interest rates

Arlington, Texas-based D.R. Horton, the largest homebuilder in the U.S., saw a 37% year-over-year increase in sales orders last quarter despite higher mortgage rates and inflationary pressures.

Tribune News Service

Texas is largest state to leave bipartisan national effort to prevent voter fraud

Texas is becoming the largest state to resign from a bipartisan, multistate effort to prevent voter fraud

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Impeachment trial will delay Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s state bar ethics case

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won’t have to fight an ethics lawsuit over his challenge to the 2020 presidential election results until after his impeachment trial.

Tribune News Service

Texas women give harrowing testimony on impact of extreme abortion ban

Women tell court about experience of carrying life-threatening pregnancies because of restrictive law with few exemptions

The Guardian - US

Texas man found guilty of 6 charges in Capitol riot, including assault

A Collin County, Texas, man was found guilty Wednesday of assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach in Washington, D.C.

Tribune News Service

‘A prisoner in your own home’: AC is a lifesaving but costly ordeal during heatwaves

As the US sizzles from record-breaking heat, air conditioning is crucial for health – but it can empty the pocketbook

The Guardian - US

4-star WR Taz Williams Jr. from Texas ‘open to going anywhere’ at next level

So far he has 43 college offers.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke

Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat

The Guardian - US

First offshore wind leases off the Texas coast offered for bidding

Some oil companies have expressed interest in bidding to build wind turbines off the Texas coast, which could help reduce emissions that cause climate change but still come at an environmental cost.

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85-year-old arrested in New Mexico after DNA links him to 1986 Texas homicide cold case

An 85-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in New Mexico after police alleged he killed a woman almost 37 years ago in Garland.

InsideEVs

Tesla Cybertruck's 4680 Cells Boast 10% Higher Energy Density

Tesla did not say what that actually means for Cybertruck owners, but it should be good news in terms of range, efficiency, and packaging.

WEKU

Up First briefing: Climate-conscious buildings; Texas abortion bans; GMO mosquitoes

It's time for infrastructure to take climate change into account. Texas' abortion bans are in court today. Scientists want to genetically modify mosquitos to help fight malaria.

Salon

Families fleeing anti-trans states

Draconian laws banning trans care are forcing some families to flee to more progressive states

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Eight Great Places to Live in Texas

Over the last two decades, the Texas population has more than doubled, with people drawn to the state's lack of personal income tax and affordable cost of living. Here are eight places to live in Texas for those looking to make the move.

The Guardian - UK

How we met: ‘I knew the moment I saw her I was going to marry her’

Steve, 46, and Maite, 43, met at a restaurant in Barcelona in 2001. They are married with two sons and live in Texas

The Texas Tribune

Nearly 64,000 Texas borrowers will have their federal loans forgiven

A U.S. Department of Education review identified 804,000 borrowers across the country with loans taken more than two decades ago and whose debts should have been canceled but were not because of “administrative failures.”

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Deep in the heart of Texas: As Abbott ramps up ‘inhumane’ operation, where are the feds?

A toddler, passed out from heat exhaustion and caught on a coil of barbed wire, pushed back without assistance by armed men. Desperate people denied water on orders from above, and left to die as a deterrent to others. These aren’t scenes from some UN observer report on a warzone,…

Tribune News Service

‘Not just difficult, it’s excruciating:’ Texas women take stand at abortion hearing

AUSTIN, Texas — The room went cold during Samantha Casiano’s 20-week anatomy scan for her fifth pregnancy. The ultrasound tech, previously bubbly and talkative, went silent. Something was wrong, Casiano recounted in a Travis County court Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: There is one reason why the Texas Rangers should trade for the best player in MLB

ARLINGTON, Texas — To acquire the best player baseball has seen in the modern era will require an actual working farm, which the Texas Rangers actually possess.

WEKU

Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: 'There was no mercy'

Women who had complicated and tragic pregnancies are suing Texas over its abortion bans. A hearing had emotional testimony in an Austin courtroom Wednesday. The state wants the case dismissed.

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