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After a decade of hype, Dallas-Houston bullet train developer faces a leadership exodus as land acquisition slows

Texas Central has made little visible progress financing the high-speed rail project and acquiring property for the route in recent years. The company maintains that the bullet train is still being developed but declined to provide details about the path forward.

The Texas Tribune

GOP AGs scheme to derail debt relief

Conservatives are hoping right-wing courts will intervene to deny debt relief to tens of millions of borrowers

Salon

Texas school district rejects ‘In God We Trust’ signs featuring rainbows, Arabic

When a Southlake parent attempted to donate “In God We Trust” signs written in Arabic and decorated with rainbow colors, the school board president informed him that schools already have enough posters displaying the national motto.

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El Paso joins Texas Gov. Abbott’s strategy of busing migrants to New York, other East Coast cities

EL PASO, Texas — A chartered bus carrying migrants is scheduled to leave El Paso for New York on Tuesday, marking the first time city and county officials have agreed to work with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Tribune News Service

The Texas Tribune and other newsrooms sue to force Uvalde officials to release shooting records

The Tribune and other news organizations also previously filed suit against the Department of Public Safety over its refusal to release records related to the school shooting.

The Texas Tribune

Ex-North Texas officer acquitted of crime in woman's death

A jury has acquitted a former Texas police officer of criminally negligent homicide after a gunshot meant for a menacing dog instead killed the woman who owned it

The Independent UK

Duke volleyball player and dad say BYU didn’t act fast enough during racist incident

As a child growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1960s and early ’70s, Marvin Richardson lived through school desegregation and the racial turmoil that followed the passage of the Civil Rights Act. He lived through the “fears and challenges” that came with being Black in the South, he…

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If the Power 5 Became a Power 3, Who Would Be in It?

These schools would have the best case to form a league behind the SEC and Big Ten.

Sports Illustrated

Clean away irritants

Sensitive skin has been an issue for Cetaphil since 1947, when a pharmacist in Texas formulated the debut cleansing lotion.

Bangkok Post

Texas megachurch pastor steps down for sending ‘unwise’ Instagram messages to woman

Matt Chandler said the messages were ‘unbefitting’ of someone in his position

The Independent UK

Arch Manning scores rushing touchdown in final preseason tune-up

Manning did show his ability to make plays with his legs by scoring a 34-yard rushing touchdown.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Supreme Court climate ruling could impact nuclear waste case

The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on climate change could have implications for a range of other issues, including a case involving nuclear waste storage and a proposal requiring companies to disclose how climate risk affects their businesses

The Independent UK

Texas Sen. John Cornyn raises privacy concerns over drunk driving prevention tech in cars

WASHINGTON — After privacy concerns arose, three Republican senators, including Texan John Cornyn, introduced legislation to repeal a provision that would mandate the development of advanced drunken driving prevention technology and require their use in all new passenger cars.

Tribune News Service

20-year-old man and 5-year-old boy shot and killed outside Fort Worth, Texas home

‘When you have children who are murdered completely senselessly, it adds just another level to that tragedy we’re all experiencing,’ police chief says

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Benzinga

Sanders Claps Back At Ted Cruz For Telling 'Slackers To Get Off The Bong' And Vote

Senator Ted Cruz has a message for the working class. "If you are that slacker barista who wasted seven years in college studying completely useless things, now has loans, and can't get a job, Joe Biden just gave you 20 grand," the Texas Republican said in the latest episode of…

Texas Observer

Uvalde Vive

The typically quiet town of 15,000 knew another uprising a half-century ago.

Tribune News Service

Texas crypto-mining rush may need as much power as entire state of New York

Crypto currency miners are accelerating their push to expand in Texas far beyond what authorities had initially expected, threatening to send the state’s electricity use skyrocketing.

The Texas Tribune

Watch: Volunteer acompañantes in Mexico aid at-home abortions. Their network is expanding to Texas.

In parts of Mexico where abortion has not been legalized, women rely on volunteer networks to provide medication and emotional support for at-home abortions. As access to abortion is shut down in Texas, similar networks are being built in the U.S.

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Video: Acompañantes en México ayudan a realizar abortos en casa. Su red de apoyo se expande a Texas.

En algunos estados de México, donde el aborto todavía no es legal, redes de acompañantes proveen medicamento y apoyo emocional para que las personas puedan realizar abortos en casa. Debido a que el acceso al aborto en Texas es cada vez más limitado, estas redes están comenzando a formarse en…

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: This Texas law is bad for church and state

The Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 797 more than a year ago, but school districts and citizens were preoccupied with the pandemic. No one paid much attention to S.B. 797’s requirement that all public schools in Texas — from first grade through university — post our national motto: In God…

Los Angeles Times

Inside Lincoln Riley's Air Raid offense, known for constant evolution and misdirection

The ideas that would one day inspire a football revolution had been rattling around in Hal Mumme's head for a few years before he finally had the chance to use them. It was 1986, and Mumme had just lost his job as Texas El Paso's offensive coordinator. With nowhere to…

Tribune News Service

Clarence Hill: With Dak Prescott and dominant defense, no excuses for Dallas Cowboys

ARLINGTON, Texas — Defense wins championships.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: A Texas federal judge makes an indefensible ruling

Mark Pittman, put on the federal bench in Fort Worth by Donald Trump, thinks that it’s just not constitutional to limit the sale of handguns to people age 21 and older. In an opinion issued Thursday agreeing with a gun group that sued to knock out Texas’ eminently sound prohibition…

Reason

Brickbat: Bad Doggy

A federal judge has dismissed an excessive force lawsuit filed Olivia Sligh against the Conroe, Texas, police department after she was bitten for roughly 62 seconds by a police dog. Body camera video shows the dog ignoring commands by his handler to release her. The judge said it was reasonable…

Tribune News Service

They named a school after him, and now they’re not sure if students should read his book

DALLAS — You name a new school building after a man or woman, and decades later few remember who that person was. In the case of the late George Dawson of Dallas — he of George Dawson Middle School fame in Southlake’s Carroll ISD — the reason his name is…

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