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After years of losing battles with GOP leaders, some big city Texas mayors strike friendlier tone

Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and incoming Houston Mayor John Whitmire, two veteran Democratic legislators, are trying to repair their cities’ fraught relationships with the state’s GOP leadership.

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Year after year, most Texas police departments report zero hate crimes. Here’s why.

A Texas Tribune analysis of hate crime data found that 82% of Texas law enforcement agencies that report to the FBI tracked no hate crimes last year. However, one suburban North Texas police agency is creating a new model of collecting hate crime data.

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Afternoon Edition: New police union contract approved at tense City Council meeting

Plus: Plans for Thompson Center makeover, how the Chinatown Gateway became a Chicago icon and more.

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After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion

A handful of local governments have already put the legally dubious bans in place. The news that Amarillo will take the issue up again comes shortly after a Dallas woman left the state for an abortion after losing a legal battle to obtain one here.

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Texas attorney general sues company accused of preying on veterans

The attorney general’s charges against VA Claims Insider echo allegations in an investigation The Texas Tribune published in July.

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Mark Welsh III officially named president of Texas A&M University

Welsh served as interim president of the flagship university for a little over four months after the prior president resigned in the midst of a hiring scandal that drew national attention.

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Tim Dunn, the powerhouse GOP donor, to sell his West Texas oil company for $12 billion

Tim Dunn has used his wealth to establish a network of organizations that push his ultraconservative views across Texas. The deal comes amid a time of consolidation in the Permian Basin.

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Abbott mum on another special session as he charges into voucher opponents’ primary battles

Abbott is promising to continue the fight for “school choice” but staying mum on whether that means he will call another special session as he has previously threatened.

The Texas Tribune

Texas GOP Rejects Ban on Association with Nazis

It’s the latest instance of the state Republican party's right-wing officialdom embracing extremism, and vengeance, above all else.

Texas Observer

Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white supremacist, might be a “slippery slope” or too vague.

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Climate change, costly disasters sent Texas homeowner insurance rates skyrocketing this year

Texas rates have increased 22% on average so far in 2023, twice the national rate. More billion-dollar disasters have occurred in Texas this year than any other year on record.

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Jeremy Corbyn calls Hamas ‘terrorist group’ after previous demurral

Former Labour leader argues Hamas and Israel both guilty of targeting civilians, after he avoided term in TV interview

The Guardian - UK

Corbyn calls Hamas ‘terrorist group’ but says Israel behind ‘acts of terror too’

The former Labour leader had previously refused to call the militant group ‘terrorists’ despite repeated questioning.

The Independent UK

Texas A&M Board of Regents names Mark Welsh III sole finalist for president

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents named the former dean and four-star general as the sole finalist for president Friday. Many believe Welsh is the right person to move the university forward after a pair of controversies bruised the school’s morale.

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Watch Texas Tribune journalists discuss their experience on a rural reproductive health project

Reporter Eleanor Klibanoff and photojournalist Shelby Tauber talked with Tribune editor Terri Langford about their reporting on a story of a 26-year-old Texan who was told her twin sons had a zero percent chance of survival after childbirth.

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Another large earthquake shows seismic activity continues to increase in West Texas, experts say

The 5.2 magnitude earthquake is tied for the fourth strongest in Texas history. It occurred in an area where oilfield companies have long been injecting wastewater from fracking underground.

The Independent UK

Chicago suburb drops citations against reporter for asking too many questions

Officials in a suburban Chicago community have dropped municipal citations against a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on treacherous fall flooding

The Independent UK

Another ex-player is alleging Blackhawks' former video coach sexually assaulted him in 2009-10

A former hockey player in the Chicago Blackhawks organization has alleged in a lawsuit the team’s former video coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted him during the 2009-10 season

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Another player from 2010 Blackhawks sues team over alleged Brad Aldrich sexual assault: report

The player was a key witness in the 2021 Jenner & Block investigation into the allegations raised by former Hawks player Kyle Beach, and most of the incidents described in the new lawsuit were mentioned in the Jenner & Block report.

The Guardian - US

US museum criticized for postponing Islamic art exhibit due to Israel-Hamas war

Frick Pittsburgh staff said exhibit would be ‘insensitive’ to Jewish community, but decision angered both Muslims and Jewish people

The Texas Tribune

Texas GOP chair stays silent on allies’ connections to antisemitic extremists

Matt Rinaldi has been defiant amid calls for him to cut ties with political ally Jonathan Stickland after meeting with white supremecist Nick Fuentes. Rinaldi is also accused of embracing antisemitic leaders of a new young Republicans organization.

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Author Dan Egan talks with The Texas Tribune about phosphorus overuse and toxic algae blooms

Egan sat down with Tribune environmental reporter Alejandra Martinez to talk about his new book, “The Devil’s Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance,” which explains how overuse of phosphorus is impacting the environment.

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Why a Texas Panhandle city hit pause on a proposed abortion “travel ban” — for now

Amarillo's city council said it will continue to study the issue. The city is one of just a few in Texas to reject the policy pushed by anti-abortion activists.

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Leader of anti-immigration group Texans for Strong Borders also runs anonymous, hate-filled social media accounts

Chris Russo has anonymously aligned himself with Nick Fuentes’ white supremacist movement on various social media platforms under the username “Optics Respecter.”

The Texas Tribune

Nick Fuentes is just the latest white supremacist embraced by Defend Texas Liberty

While Fuentes’ unapologetic hate mongering has made him one of the nation’s best-known white supremacists, he was merely the latest in a long line of people who have been embraced by Defend Texas Liberty and its close allies.

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