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The Latest Breaking News from Texas

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Texas Recruits High School Kids To Be Corrections Officers

Short on guards, the state hopes to attract students enrolled in corrections career training programs once they turn 18.

Texas Observer

Texas bans testimony based on police ‘investigative hypnosis’ in criminal trials

AUSTIN — Statements that crime witnesses make while under hypnosis will soon be inadmissible in Texas courts.

Tribune News Service

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What we do — and don't yet — know about the malaria cases in the U.S.

Five local cases of malaria in the U.S. have been reported --mosquitoes carrying the malaria parasite bit and infected the individuals. How worried should we be? Is climate change a factor?

WEKU

Nearly 1.4 million Texans could be impacted by U.S. Supreme Court decision blocking student loan forgiveness

The court ruled in favor of the six GOP-led states that alleged President Joe Biden overstepped his authority with his loan forgiveness plan.

The Texas Tribune

Nearly 10,000 more babies born in nine months under Texas’ restrictive abortion law, study finds

This is the first analysis of live births since the law, which banned abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect in September 2021.

The Texas Tribune

US temperatures continue to rise as millions affected by extreme heat and wildfire smoke – as it happened

East coast cities under air quality alerts while southern states grapple with record-breaking deadly heatwave

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Aurora’s self-driving trucks are on the road. What it’s like inside an autonomous big rig

PALMER, Texas — Darcy Desjarlais, senior truck operations specialist at Aurora, hovers both hands under the steering wheel of Aurora’s self-driving truck as it cruises at 65 miles per hour down Interstate 45, heading in its typical route toward Houston.

Tribune News Service

Texas DPS ordered to release documents on botched Uvalde shooting response

Massacre at Robb Elementary School left 19 children and two teachers dead

The Independent UK

A $100 billion wealth migration tilts US economy’s center of gravity south

Drive along the 240-mile stretch of the Atlantic coast from Charleston, South Carolina, through the grassy marsh land of southern Georgia and down into northern Florida, and you’ll see one of the most profound economic shifts in the U.S. today.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis' treatment of migrants divides Miami's Venezuelan community, the nation's largest

MIAMI -- Angelo Gomez walked across seven countries and a gang-infested jungle. He caught a ride through Mexico atop the train known as La Bestia, carrying a bucket of rocks for protection. Then he turned himself over to Border Patrol agents in Texas earlier this month, telling them he feared…

Los Angeles Times

Locally transmitted malaria in the US could be a harbinger of rising disease risk in a warming climate – 5 questions answered

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on June 26, 2023, that five cases of locally transmitted malaria had been identified – four in Florida and one in Texas – since May 2023. These are the first cases of locally acquired mosquito-borne malaria in the U.S. since 2003.

The Conversation

How the Railroad Killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground

A serial killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground in the 1990s. The desperate hunt for Angel Maturino Resendiz, alias Rafael Resendez-Ramirez – chronicled in Netflix’s Catching Killers – came to an end when a young FBI agent and a Texas Ranger negotiated his surrender, writes…

The Independent UK

Ron DeSantis Says He's a Christian. He Should Read the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

It's wrong to use human beings as pawns in an apparent political stunt.

Reason

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States Enact 239 Election-Related Bills In 2023 Amid Partisan Divide

Democrats sponsored 19.7% of bills, while Republicans sponsored 59.8%. Governors vetoed 30 bills this year.

Ballotpedia

We’re up to 31 statewide measures certified for elections in 2023

Welcome to the Friday, June 30, Brew.

The Guardian - US

‘It’s become unbearable’: Texas workers toil through extreme heatwave

Many employees in Texas have no heat protections and work in intense and prolonged sun exposure, which causes heat illness

Tribune News Service

What to know about malaria after Texas’ first local case in 30 years

Texas’ first locally acquired case of malaria in 30 years was recently reported by health officials. The patient was diagnosed with the disease after working outdoors in South Texas’ Cameron County, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement Friday.

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Slight relief expected in Dallas-Fort Worth after deadly Texas heat wave

DALLAS — As scorching temperatures are expected to shift away from North Texas ahead of Fourth of July weekend, officials warn the heat can still be dangerous — a fact evidenced by more than a dozen weather-related deaths across the state in recent days.

The Texas Tribune

Third-party candidates may have an easier time getting on the ballot in Texas

A federal judge blocks an 118-year-old state law that required minor political party candidates to collect more than 83,000 signatures on paper in order to appear on the ballot.

Tribune News Service

Josh Jung one of franchise-record four Rangers starters in MLB All-Star Game

ARLINGTON, Texas — Sure, Josh Jung imagined making the All-Star team. Put it down on the vision board he made for himself before the season.

The Independent UK

New Mexico regulators fine oil producer $40 million for burning off vast amounts of natural gas

New Mexico oilfield and air quality regulators announced unprecedented fines against a Texas-based oil and natural gas producer on accusations that the company flouted local pollution reporting and control requirements as it burned off vast amounts of natural gas

The Texas Tribune

Texas House investigation widens to include Ken Paxton real estate purchases, report says

The Wall Street Journal says the impeached attorney general, his wife and a family trust spent nearly $3.5 million buying properties in four states in 2021 and 2022.

The Independent UK

Here’s how to keep cool and stay safe during a heat wave

Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and led to mounting misery from the Pacific Northwest to the South

USA Today Sports Media Group

Draft reaction: Dallas Cowboys select LB DeMarvion Overshown No. 90 overall

Draft reaction: Dallas Cowboys select Texas LB DeMarvion Overshown No. 90 overall

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