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Used tyres from Japan were considered a likely pathway for Asian tiger mosquitoes into Texas, helping the species spread across the United States

Used tyres became a pathway for the Asian tiger mosquito's global spread. This adaptable species was detected in the United States during the 1980s. Investigations revealed discarded tyres served as crucial breeding sites for mosquitoes. The extensive international tyre trade facilitated accidental introductions across continents. Regulations were later imposed on…

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Are Wall Street Analysts Bullish on Texas Instruments Stock?

Despite Texas Instruments trailing the semiconductor industry’s returns, it has outpaced the S&P 500 Index. That performance, coupled with its long-term growth story, has kept analysts moderately bullish on the stock.

Barchart

Notre Dame Favored in College Football Championship Market on Kalshi

Notre Dame is favored to win the college football National Championship on Kalshi. Notre Dame sits ahead of Ohio State and Texas.

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Texas has electricity and water bills below the national average — but they’re rising faster than inflation for one key reason that won’t surprise anyone

Data centers are causing electricity and water prices in Texas to grow at unprecedented rates.

TechRadar

Texas residents fume over proposal to put data center next to a Buddhist monastery

The backlash coincides with a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott ordering audits of all pending data center power grid connections across Texas

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott Once Called Texas the 'Epicenter' of AI. Now He's Freezing Data Center Construction.

The bipartisan backlash against data centers reaches the Lone Star State.

Reason

University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas

DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport

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$300M from GI Bill spent on training like grass-growing and making fake rocks, report reveals: ‘Get into this racket’

‘I always wondered why the mob stuck to drug dealing and organized crime. Get into this racket. It’s easier money,’ says one critic

The Independent UK

Texas man points out an issue at his local Texas Roadhouse, wants its CEO to know the solution is right next door

He addressed Texas Roadhouse CEO, Jerry Morgan.

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Texas' Senators Have Been Republicans For Decades. Now Polls Show A Democrat In The Lead

Democrat James Talarico is in the lead in the Texas Senate race, according to three recent polls.

International Business Times

Texas slams on the brakes for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28…

Tom’s Hardware

The 78.4 kWh Base Core battery can keep your home running during an outage, installs in under an hour, and gives back to the grid — as home battery installations reach a record high

Base Power just raised $1 billion for its Base Core battery, amid a significant uptick in home energy solutions.

TechRadar

University of Houston Is Gutting Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed.

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

Texas Observer

Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

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Roll Call

Blanche’s AG nomination moves ahead after delay

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday favorably reported Todd Blanche’s bid to be attorney general after some Republican senators delayed the vote over the Trump administration’s controversial “weaponization” fund. Key GOP holdouts on the committee, Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., voted in favor of advancing Blanche’s nomination…

The Texas Tribune

Most Black Texas voters back Talarico over Paxton, poll finds, despite Senate primary tensions

In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.

The Independent UK

GOP senators view Trump as a drag on their political chances – as even Texas Senate seat could be in play: reports

Senators reportedly fear that the president’s push for voter ID laws and a ‘slush fund’ could harm Republican candidates

The Independent UK

Three Texas moms launch lawsuit over state’s plan to put display of Ten Commandments in every classroom

Representing Sikh, nonreligious and multi-faith households, the plaintiffs argue the mandatory posters foster exclusion in public school classrooms

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Michael Dell’s son founds company to roll out battery storage in everyone’s backyards

Base recently secured $1 billion in funding, bringing its valuation $13 billion

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Texas Walmart Spark driver allegedly delivers groceries to a porch filled with clutter. Then he came back with a knife: ‘You’re on video doing that’

Door cam footage captured the alleged dispute.

The Independent UK

Trump team gets judge’s approval for border wall through Texas levee system despite ‘disastrous’ flooding risk

Plans for 30 feet of steel and concrete could compromise flood barriers protecting the small town of Presidio

The Texas Tribune

Following ban, Texas hemp reps sue state for violating commerce protections

Members of the hemp industry are suing Texas, claiming that the ban on hemp-derived THC products impose an unconstitutional burden on interstate commerce.

The Texas Tribune

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, Gov. Greg Abbott says

On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

Roll Call

Thune doesn’t guarantee NIL bill votes this week even with SEC, Big Ten backing

Senate Commerce Committee aides said Monday the full chamber could begin voting on a sweeping college sports bill before starting a monthlong summer break, but Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., stopped short of penciling it onto his packed pre-recess calendar. Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and ranking Democrat Maria Cantwell…

The Texas Tribune

Which families are using ESAs? Here’s what we know about Texas’ first school vouchers

The number of Texas students using taxpayer money for private school or home-school could increase as more families accept invites.

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