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Texas attorney general raises $5.9 million this election cycle

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has raised $5.9 million and spent $6 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 14, 2022. Paxton is currently ranked seventh in state-level donations in the 2022 election cycle.

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The police response at Robb Elementary was a failure, a Texas official says

It took about an hour and 14 minutes from when officers arrived at the school to when they breached the door and ended the standoff with the gunman.

WEKU

3 men dead after small boat overturns during strong storm on Texas lake

There were four men aboard and one was able to hold on to a tree and call for help

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Uvalde response to mass shooting was ‘abject failure’ that put lives of officers above children, hearing told

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, gave damning testimony on Tuesday morning saying that ‘terrible decisions were made’ by Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo

The Independent UK

Texas leader says Uvalde police response an 'abject failure'

The head of the Texas Department of Public Safety says three minutes after a gunman entered a school where he slaughtered 19 elementary students and two teachers there was sufficient armed law enforcement on scene to stop the gunman

The Independent UK

Exclusive-Three migrants were kidnapped in Mexico. The U.S. had vowed to protect them

Three asylum seekers were kidnapped in April while in a U.S. migration program that had placed them in the care of Mexican officials in the city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Texas, one of the victims and the U.N. migration agency said.

Reuters

Texas Original Opens Permanent Medical Cannabis Pickup Location In Houston

Texas Original, opened a permanent pickup location in Houston. The 1,776 square-foot facility is located in the Heights neighborhood at 1714 Houston Avenue.

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Arch Manning Trending to Texas Coming Off Official Visit

Austin—the last stop on Manning’s three-week tour of official visits—emerges as a serious contender over SEC powerhouses.

Sports Illustrated

What’s next for Texas abortion law if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade?

DALLAS — If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, what happens to Texas state laws that were in place prior to the landmark ruling on abortion rights almost 50 years ago?

Tribune News Service

Texas GOP pushes secession, Big Lie

Texas GOP also called to repeal the Voting Rights Act and labeled homosexuality an “abnormal lifestyle choice”

Salon

'Jane's Revenge': Abortion Terror Group or Terror Hoax?

Plus: Americans' changing opinions of January 6 riots, Texas craft brewer can "party on," and more...

Reason

Five-year-old dies after mum mistakenly left him in hot car as she prepared party

The youngster was found still strapped in the car in Texas after his mother began frantically searching for him believing he was out of the vehicle

Wales Online

DPS Director Steve McCraw testifies before Texas Senate committee on Uvalde shooting

A special Texas Senate committee is meeting at 9 a.m. Central on Tuesday in response to the Uvalde school shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

The Texas Tribune

Woman, 48, with boyfriend, 25, says he's mistaken for her son due to age gap

Rachel Allen, from Texas, in the US, described an instant soul mate-like connection when meeting her boyfriend Alex, from New York, for the first time and the pair now live together

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The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Donald Trump plotted fake electors scheme, panel set to show

Committee also expected to investigate Trump’s pressure in crucial states to reverse election defeat. Plus Juneteenth celebrations over time

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Texas GOP’s platform is usually nutty. This year, it’s also offensive and conspiratorial

The Texas Republican Party’s heartiest activists did their thing over the weekend, bringing an embarrassing spotlight to a state and party that should be touting Texas successes and what we can offer the nation.

USA Today Sports Media Group

McTelvin Agim, a Texas native, talks about Juneteenth holiday

Juneteenth became a federal holiday last year.

Tribune News Service

After Cornyn blames jeers at Texas GOP on ‘mob,’ gun rights group demands apology

WASHINGTON — Jeered at the Texas Republican convention for his role in Senate gun talks and drowned out by chants of “No red flags,” Sen. John Cornyn dismissed the booing GOP delegates as a “mob.”

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The Texas Tribune

“If there’s kids in there, we need to go in”: Officers in Uvalde were ready with guns, shields and tools — but not clear orders

The Texas Tribune has reviewed law enforcement transcripts and footage that federal and state investigators are examining after the May 24 tragedy.

Daily Mirror

Boy, 5, dies in hot car after being left for up to 3 hours by mum preparing party

A five-year-old boy was mistakenly left inside a car by his mum in Texas, who had thought he had got himself out, while she went on to prepare for his sister's birthday party, it is claimed

Tribune News Service

Family stunned at funeral when casket contained wrong body sent from Fort Worth, lawsuit says

FORT WORTH, Texas — Jose Gonzalez’s death in March 2020 was sudden. But for his family, the most shocking part of their loved one’s death came on the day of his funeral in California, when they approached the open casket and, inside, saw the wrong body.

The Independent UK

Texas Republicans want to secede from the United States. Could they do it?

Texas has long had an independent streak. But just how likely is it that the Lone Star state will chart its own path?

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate Democrats call again for a special session on gun safety in response to Uvalde shooting

The senators said they would support proposals like raising the age to legally own an assault weapon from 18 to 21, creating red flag laws and regulating private gun sales.

The Independent UK

Congresswoman who authored abortion rights bill calls Senate’s inaction to codify Roe v Wade ‘such a crime’

The California Congresswoman and author of Democrats’ legislation to codify abortion protections speaks with Eric Garcia about the end of Roe v Wade, abortion rights and why the filibuster needs to go

Bangkok Post

Cooling down the hottest cities needs momentum

Extreme heat is having its moment in the sun. This year's headlines have been as relentless as the temperatures: "Spain endures record heatwave," "Devastating heatwave in South Asia," "Texas shatters heat record," "Can you even call deadly heat 'extreme' anymore?"

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