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TOP NEWS
“Roughly 180 complaints filed against Texas teachers for alleged comments on killing of Charlie Kirk,” Texas Tribune's Ayden Runnels -- "The Texas Education Agency is investigating roughly 180 complaints against teachers who have been accused of making inappropriate comments online about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s death as several educators across the state have already been punished for allegedly doing so.
In the days since Kirk was shot and killed during an event he hosted at Utah Valley University, lawmakers and activists have called for the firings and removals of anyone mocking Kirk or celebrating his death.
On Monday, Gov. Greg Abbott alleged the complaints amounted to over 100 teachers, and that statements against Kirk “called for or incite violence” in a social media post [ [link removed] ].
The Texas Education Agency did not respond to questions about what policy or ethics code violation would be broken if a teacher made what was considered to be an inappropriate comment. The TEA provided a statement from agency commissioner Mike Morath, who said he would recommend the State Board for Educator Certification suspend the licenses of teachers who are disciplined.
“While all educators are held to a high standard of professionalism, there is a difference between comments made in poor taste and those that call for and incite further violence — the latter of which is clearly unacceptable,” Morath said.
At least six school districts across the state have already taken disciplinary action regarding staff comments on Kirk’s death, and others have been criticized by Republican lawmakers for not taking swift action. Klein Independent School District fired [ [link removed] ] a teacher for comments he made online about Kirk’s death, and Ector County Independent School District fired a part-time tutor and placed another employee on administrative leave, according to a press release. Both districts said the fired employees’ comments did not reflect the “values” of their schools.
Critics have called the crackdown “authoritarian” and expressed concern that the comments are protected First Amendment speech. Zeph Capo, president of the Texas’ American Federation of Teachers union, said in a statement that the investigations “silence dissent” among school teachers.
“What started with lawmakers weaponizing their platforms against civil servants has morphed into a statewide directive to hunt down and fire educators for opinions shared on their personal social media accounts,” Capo said.
Several Texas lawmakers have become outspoken about teacher’s comments on Kirk, with some encouraging their removal or disciplinary action. The online pushback comes after two [ [link removed] ] professors [ [link removed] ] were fired before Kirk’s death over statements they made in videos taken of them unknowingly and posted online.
“The TEA takes a stand against teachers who condoned the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe, said in a social media post on Friday. “These people are insanely hateful and violent and have no place in the lives of Texas Children.”
While the TEA investigates K-12 teachers, Texas legislators will inquire about how higher education faculty and staff are handling discussions of Kirk’s death and other subjects. On Friday, Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced two new committees [ [link removed] ], “honoring the life and legacy” of Kirk, would create reports on free speech and bias at state universities." Texas Tribune [ [link removed] ]
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TOP NEWS
“Hearst makes ‘best and final’ bid for DallasNews Corporation ahead of shareholder vote,” Dallas Morning News' Javier E. David -- "Hearst increased its bid for DallasNews Corporation [ [link removed] ] once more as the deal heads to the conclusion of a shareholder vote Sept. 23.
On Monday, DallasNews Corporation issued a news release stating Hearst upped its all-cash bid for the company from $15 per share to $16.50 per share, a “significant premium” of 276% from where the company’s stock traded in early July, when the deal was made public.
DallasNews Corporation [ [link removed] ] is the public parent company of The Dallas Morning News [ [link removed] ] and Medium Giant [ [link removed] ], an integrated creative marketing agency, [ [link removed] ] with offices in Dallas and Tulsa.
“With this best and final increase to our offer, we are clearly demonstrating our commitment to providing significant value to DallasNews shareholders and further illustrating our belief that DallasNews has a bright future as part of the Hearst family,” Jeff Johnson, president of Hearst Newspapers, said in a statement.
Hearst is a diverse media company with a portfolio of 28 daily newspapers [ [link removed] ], including the Houston Chronicle [ [link removed] ], San Antonio Express-News [ [link removed] ] and Austin American-Statesman [ [link removed] ], and 50 weeklies.
In addition, Hearst owns 35 television stations [ [link removed] ] and more than 200 magazines [ [link removed] ] and has an ownership stake in cable networks [ [link removed] ] A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN. Outside of media, Hearst owns Fitch Group [ [link removed] ], a global financial services business; Hearst Transportation [ [link removed] ]; and Hearst Health [ [link removed] ], a group of medical information and services businesses.
The shareholder voting window is already open.
John A. Beckert, chairman of the DallasNews Corporation board, framed the decision for shareholders in a statement: “DallasNews shareholders have an important choice to make: either support this value creating transaction and realize a significant premium on their investment, or alternatively, DallasNews will remain a public company and its shares may return to their pre-announcement trading value of approximately $4 per share.”
Monday was the second time in a month Hearst has increased its offer following an unsolicited bid by MNG Enterprises Inc., an affiliate of Alden Global Capital.
Hearst originally offered $14 per share. MediaNews Group has offered $18.50 per share.
Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group [ [link removed] ]owns 77 daily newspapers and more than 150 weekly publications across the country, including the Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, The Mercury News, The Virginian-Pilot and Boston Herald." DMN [ [link removed] ] ($)
#TXLEGE
“Federal loopholes may have opened the door for sports betting alternatives that skirt Texas’ gambling ban,” Texas Tribune's Ayden Runnels -- "With football season ramping up, various social media sites have seen a swarm of new advertisements urging users to download various apps that would allow them to win big on the outcomes of upcoming sporting events.
Some ads make an even more enticing claim to potential Texas bettors: that placing money on the games is newly legal. One ad from prediction market app Polymarket states that football trading is “now legal” in Texas. Other ads imply there are workarounds to the state's strict gambling ban.
“I found a way to bet on the NFL even though we live in Texas,” reads a simulated text in one Instagram ad from prediction market app Kalshi.
Through prediction markets and daily fantasy sports, also known as DFS, Texans have more access than ever to win — or lose — money based on the outcome of sporting events. And it can be done without leaving the state, where betting on contests or games is both illegal [ [link removed] ] and a sticking point among state officials.
Despite the ads’ claims, no new state or federal laws related to gambling regulation passed this year, except for a restriction [ [link removed] ] on online lottery ticket couriers. Repeated [ [link removed] ] efforts [ [link removed] ] in the Texas Legislature to legalize sports betting [ [link removed] ], casinos [ [link removed] ] and DFS have all faltered, leaving the games unregulated and unclear on these digital alternatives beyond a nearly decade-old nonbinding opinion from Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The lack of legal movement has not stopped online sites from giving Texas players alternatives to sports betting from exploding in availability. The two new ways of playing lean on federal regulations rather than state law to provide their services to players. Executives from DFS and prediction market businesses have pushed back on being linked to sports betting, claiming their peer-to-peer services are skill-based or federally regulated financial transactions, respectively.
While other states have taken aggressive legal action to counter the businesses’ spread, Texas has done little to deter their growth, despite targeting other online gaming services earlier in the year. Supporters said that illegal gambling has become widespread — and that these new alternatives are safer and more responsible options for a market lawmakers seemingly ignore.
“I think potentially something here that people are underrating is that in states like Texas or California, where sports betting is illegal under state law, most people will just go to an offshore book instead,” said Jack Such, head of media operations for Kalshi. “It's not like sports betting is really inaccessible. There are tons of platforms.”
Both DFS and prediction market businesses make their money through transaction fees, and players bet against each other, rather than betting against operators like traditional sportsbooks or casinos. The separation provides an extra layer of insulation, but it has not stopped the services from being widely understood to supplant sports betting, despite the denial from operators.
Gregory Gemignani, a gaming law lawyer and professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the alternatives are “pretty much identical” to sports betting and blend elements of their respective origins — futures trading and old-school fantasy sports — with classic gambling structure.
“Taking things that we already have and just combining them, I don't think, is all that novel,” Gemignani said. “It just wasn't done before because most people saw it, especially in the industry, as another form of a sports bet, which has limitations on transmission across state lines — which would make the activity pretty unattractive.”" Texas Tribune [ [link removed] ]
2026
“Rep. McCaul will retire, but GOP hawk worries about World War III after Russian escalation,” AP's Nicholas Riccardi -- "​Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, one of the GOP’s most prominent foreign affairs hawks, announced on Sunday that he’ll retire, while warning that, with Russia’s escalation of its invasion of Ukraine [ [link removed] ], “we got to be very careful not to be on the precipice of a World War III.”
McCaul made his statements to ABC News as he discussed this past week’s incursion into Polish airspace [ [link removed] ] of Russian drones, which led to NATO scrambling jets to intercept them. Russia said the intrusion was an error, but Poland and other European countries said they had no doubts it was intentional. President Donald Trump said it “could have been a mistake.”
McCaul said the incursion was cause for alarm. “We’ve never seen anything like this in recent times,” the congressman said. “And so, what I’m concerned about is that the escalation here and the temperature rising, we got to be very careful not to be on the precipice of a World War III.”
McCaul has long pushed Trump to take a tougher stance on Russia and its invasion of Ukraine and he said he thinks the president is “waking up” to see that Russian President Vladimir Putin “is not negotiating in good faith.”
Trump has repeatedly praised Putin over the years and moved to cut off military aid to Ukraine, though he’s reversed course and supported a new increase. He invited Putin to Alaska [ [link removed] ] for discussions last month about a ceasefire in Ukraine, but the Russian president has yet to commit to one.
“I think he’s manipulating the president as a KGB officer would,” McCaul said of Putin, who used to work for the Soviet intelligence service. “The more Putin irritates the president, I think the better we are in terms of defending NATO and Ukraine.”
A former anti-terrorism prosecutor and past chairman of the House Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees, McCaul, 63, is part of an older generation of foreign policy hawks who’ve tried to counter a younger crop of Republicans who are more skeptical about U.S. intervention elsewhere in the world.
McCaul becomes one of at least 10 House members leaving the chamber without seeking higher office, a tally that includes fellow GOP hawk Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska, who’s been increasingly critical of Trump’s response to Putin.
McCaul said he would finish his term but not seek reelection next year. “I’m looking for a new challenge in the same space that would be national security, foreign policy, but just in a different realm,” he said." AP [ [link removed] ]
“Paxton Touts Support from Never-Trumper-Led Organization,” The Texas Voice's Mark McCaig -- "​In a social media post on Saturday [ [link removed] ], Texas Attorney General and United States Senate Candidate Ken Paxton touted the support he received from the National Association for Gun Rights [ [link removed] ] – an organization led by an activist who describes himself as “one of the biggest detractors of Trump in the conservative movement.”
“What a great day for a clay shoot. Thank you, [Texas Gun Rights] and [National Association for Gun Rights] for your endorsement and support of my campaign. It was great to see so many patriots,” wrote Paxton.
Paxton’s post included photographs of him at a fundraising event for Texas Gun Rights, the Texas state affiliate of the National Association for Gun Rights. In one of the photographs, Paxton is photographed receiving an oversized novelty check from the National Association for Gun Rights PAC alongside Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt and National Association for Gun Rights President Dudley Brown.
The check, which featured Brown’s signature, represented a $5,000 contribution from the National Association for Gun Rights PAC to Paxton’s Senate campaign against Senator John Cornyn. The $5,000 donation is the maximum amount that a federal candidate can receive from a political action committee.
Brown has been an outspoken critic of President Trump, whom he has described as “pretty damn bad on 2A issues [ [link removed] ]”, “the KING of gaslighting [ [link removed] ]”, a “horrible candidate” who is “horrible on 2A” and “horrible on spending [ [link removed] ]”, a “NYC con man [ [link removed] ]”, and a “poison that infects the GOP [ [link removed] ].”
A supporter [ [link removed] ] of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Presidential campaign during the 2024 Republican Primary, Brown has said on numerous occasions that he has never supported President Trump and “never will [ [link removed] ].” Brown has also described himself as “one of the biggest detractors of Trump in the conservative movement” and indicated that he wrote in the name [ [link removed] ] of anti-Trump Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie instead of voting for President Trump against Kamala Harris.
Texas Gun Rights has a track record of opposing some of President Trump’s top allies in Texas politics. In a 2023 social media post, Texas Gun Rights accused Lt. Governor Dan Patrick – who served as Texas chair for President Trump’s campaigns [ [link removed] ] – of “embracing Joe Biden’s gun control agenda.” The post also featured an image depicting Patrick and Biden physically embracing each other.
In addition to Brown’s longstanding opposition to President Trump, Brown and the National Association for Gun Rights have expressed strong support for Massie, who has solidified himself as President Trump’s most vocal Republican antagonist in Congress. In addition to endorsing Paxton, the National Association for Gun Rights PAC has also endorsed and donated to Massie, and Brown has described Massie as “the best member of Congress [ [link removed] ].”
President Trump, on the other hand, has made defeating Massie in the Republican Primary one of his top political priorities [ [link removed] ].
Despite welcoming the support of an organization that is hostile to President Trump, Paxton has attempted to portray Senator Cornyn as insufficiently supportive of President Trump. Cornyn has pushed back against those claims, citing his “99% pro-Trump [ [link removed] ]” voting record in the Senate." The Texas Voice [ [link removed] ]
STATE GOVERNMENT
“Paxton, Austin ISD reach agreement over critical race theory lawsuit,” Austin American-Statesman's Keri Heath -- "The Austin school district and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have reached an agreement [ [link removed] ] over legal action that Paxton filed against the district in May over the use of critical race theory, which is banned in Texas classrooms, according to an announcement Monday.
In the agreement, Superintendent Matias Segura agreed to issue a district-wide communication explaining the ban on CRT and ensure staff don’t use the academic theory in teaching.
As part of the order, Segura and the district also didn’t admit any wrongdoing or liability.
The academic concept holds that racism is embedded in the country’s systems, policies and institutions and has been prohibited in public education curriculum since 2021. The Texas Legislature also prohibited the use of materials related to the 1619 Project, a New York Times Magazine initiative that aims to emphasize the role slavery played in the country’s founding.
“Austin ISD has maintained since the beginning that we have not violated this law and that our district policy is in compliance, specifically concerning the teaching of ‘Critical Race Theory’ in our schools,” Segura said in a statement.
Paxton took legal action against the Austin school district in May [ [link removed] ], accusing the district of using curricula and materials linked to the 1619 Project and of a district employee stating there were “ways to get around” the state’s CRT ban. At the time, Paxton’s office didn’t specify what evidence it had gathered against the district.
“While this order is an important step forward, I want to make clear to any school district considering any breach of this law: we will be watching," Paxton said in a statement.
However, in 2023, an activist publication posted a video of the Austin district’s then-equity officer Stephanie Hawley telling an undercover member of a conservative nonprofit media group that the district uses a literacy instructional resource database that “lets us stay out of trouble with the Legislature.”
Hawley was one of a handful of staff members from multiple Austin-area school districts featured in the video.
“This lawsuit consumed valuable time and public funds," Board of Trustees President Lynn Boswell said in a statement. "This resolution allows us to focus our resources on our core mission: providing a high-quality public school education for every student in our district.”
Paxton has taken aim at school districts across the state over the past year for alleged violations of state laws recently passed to address hot-button conservative issues like critical race theory and transgender student athletes." AAS [ [link removed] ] ($)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
“Ron Nirenberg gets slap on the wrist for repeatedly violating ethics code with campaign Facebook page,” San Antonio Express-News' Megan Rodriguez -- "Former Mayor Ron Nirenberg broke a section of the ethics code that prohibits the use of city resources for private purposes, including political campaigns, a panel of the Ethics Review Board ruled Monday night.
Kelly Reid Walls, an animal welfare activist involved in the government accountability group InfuseSA, accused Nirenberg of breaking the city ethics code on more than 40 occasions dating back to 2023. Her June 20 complaint highlights dozens of posts on Nirenberg’s campaign Facebook page in which he’s standing alongside first responders and in various locations unaccessible to the public, including his office and secured areas of the San Antonio International Airport.
The city attorney’s office, in accordance with state law, discourages candidates from using photos of city staff for their campaign literature or websites.
Walls also accused Nirenberg of failing to report a high-value gift on his financial disclosure report — a signed jersey from Spurs star center Victor Wembanyama. Candidates are supposed to report gifts that cost more than $100. Jerseys autographed by the French star are valued at more than $1,000. [ [link removed] ] Wembanyama gave the jersey to Nirenberg in January. [ [link removed] ]
The board brushed off the jersey complaint. Nirenberg’s attorney, Frank Burney, told the board in a letter before the vote that the financial statement was corrected to reflect the previously undisclosed jersey.
But board members issued a letter of admonition for the Facebook posts. The penalty is standard when the board believes an ethics violation was minor or when an official unintentionally violated the code. The letter does not impose fines or sanctions, or result in criminal prosecution
Nirenberg did not attend the board meeting, but issued a statement that Burney gave to reporters after the vote.
“Thanks to members of the ERB who gave freely of their time to ensure that the public’s business is held to the highest standards,” the statement reads.
Nirenberg had asked the board to dismiss the complaint in a letter written by Burney, who said the city’s legal department had advised Nirenberg on appropriate social media usage at the beginning of his time as mayor.
“The Facebook Page features prominent disclaimers, and the Mayor took measures to avoid posting materials that would run afoul of City ethics rules,” Burney said in his response to the complaint. “While many of the images cited in Ms. Walls' Complaint do not constitute violations of the City Code of Ethics, Mayor Nirenberg has posted thousands of images on his social media accounts over the last 12 years, and it is likely that some of them may, arguably, be in technical violation of COSA regulations — but he did not intend to violate such regulations.”
The mayor and council are trained on the dos-and-don’ts of political advertising during election season and are issued reminders about how to prevent violations.
“State law prohibits the use of City resources, equipment, or money for election campaigning,” City Attorney Andy Segovia said in a January memo to the Nirenberg and the City Council. “This includes the use of photographs involving City employees (i.e., photos taken while that employee is on duty or with visible City insignia on their clothing) and City equipment in campaign materials including social media posts from campaign accounts.”
The city attorney’s office asks candidates who break that rule to remove the photographs from their campaign material. Patty Gibbons, who lost a June 7 runoff to District 1 Councilwoman Sukh Kaur, removed photos of police officers from her campaign site at the office’s request." SAEN [ [link removed] ] ($)
TEXANS IN DC
“Chip Roy calls for new committee to investigate ‘radical left’ after Kirk assassination,” Dallas Morning News' Joseph E. Morton -- "U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, [ [link removed] ] is calling for a new special committee to investigate the “money, influence, and power behind the radical left’s assault on America and the rule of law.”
Roy wrote a letter last week [ [link removed] ] to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and key committee chairmen pushing a standalone panel armed with subpoena power and consisting of lawmakers and staff who have prosecutorial and law enforcement backgrounds.
“Enough is enough,” Roy wrote. “We must follow the money to identify the perpetrators of the coordinated anti-American assaults being carried out against us and take all steps under the law necessary to stop them.”
The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk laid bare the country’s deep ideological divisions and prompted calls for unity, along with finger-pointing over which side [ [link removed] ] carries more blame for stoking those divisions.
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said Sunday the 22-year-old accused of killing Kirk had a “leftist ideology” [ [link removed] ] but he did not offer details and much remains unknown about the specific motivation behind the attack.
While Republicans have tied the shooting to rhetoric from the other side, Democrats have highlighted what they describe as GOP indifference to incidents of violence against them.
Those include former Minnesota state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, who were shot and killed [ [link removed] ] this summer in their home outside Minneapolis.
Roy made no mention of Hortman’s assassination in his letter, which called for investigators to examine organizations, political donors, media, public officials and other entities driving what he called a “coordinated attack” from the left.
He cited last year’s attempted assassination [ [link removed] ] of President Donald Trump and the 2017 shooting at a Republican lawmakers’ baseball practice [ [link removed] ].
Roy said the Southern Poverty Law Center put “targets” on the conservative Family Research Council and the organization Kirk founded, Turning Point USA, by listing them on its “Hate Map.”
A man shot a security guard at the Family Research Council’s [ [link removed] ] Washington, D.C., offices in 2012.
SPLC defended its work in a statement, saying its data and analysis have been used in courts, classrooms and legislatures to protect civil rights and hold extremists accountable.
“We must have meaningful national conversation about violence and polarization in America,” the group said. “Blaming organizations that monitor extremism distracts from the urgent work of addressing the conditions that allow hate and violence to grow. SPLC remains committed to exposing extremism, equipping communities with knowledge, and defending the rights and safety of marginalized communities.”
In his letter, Roy said organizations are pushing soft-on-crime policies, resulting in incidents such as the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee [ [link removed] ] on a North Carolina commuter train." DMN [ [link removed] ] ($)
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
“A 'victory' for residents: EPA approves cleanup plan for San Jacinto River waste pits near I-10,” Houston Chronicle's Rebekah F. Ward -- "A small boat floats above the northern impoundments of the San Jacinto Waste Pits just north of Interstate 10 on the San Jacinto River, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Channelview. The southern impoundments of the superfund site are on the small peninsula south of the freeway.
Nearly a decade after federal officials first ordered companies to remove toxic waste from a Superfund site [ [link removed] ] buried in the bed of the San Jacinto River, the government greenlit a final plan to make it happen.
Since 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been locked in a back-and-forth disagreement with International Paper Co. and McGinnes Industrial Maintenance Co., a subsidiary of Waste Management, over how the companies would deal with the waste pits.
Instead of removing the pollutants, the two parties responsible for excavating the underwater contaminants have repeatedly proposed capping the waste in the water, offering plans that the EPA has called "seriously deficient." [ [link removed] ]
Texas studies found elevated cancer rates [ [link removed] ] in the area, which falls around the Interstate 10 bridge near Channelview and Pasadena. Many locals have been eager for the companies to start cleaning up the underwater site, worried that its dioxins and other harmful pollutants have contributed to the area's health struggles. International Paper Co. finished cleaning a neighboring above-ground waste pit with similar contaminants nearly two years ago.
"This is a victory for all of the residents who have been pushing for the cleanup of this environmental hazard for so many years," said Jackie Medcalf, who founded the Texas Health and Environment Alliance in part to advocate for the cleanup.
"We appreciate the EPA taking firm action on a project that has been allowed to languish for far too long," she said.
In a letter last week [ [link removed] ] to the responsible parties' contractor, GHD Services Inc., EPA regional program manager Robert M. Appelt said the agency was ready to approve its "final remedial design" for the underwater northern impoundment. However, in an unusual move, the approval came with dozens of caveats — including a requirement for post-excavation sampling to show the government and neighbors that the work was complete.
"The EPA has stated in previous comments that post-excavation confirmation sampling is an essential step in the Superfund cleanup process," Appelt said in the letter, noting that the companies had excluded this from their final design. He included a number of other "conditions" in the approval letter that, taken together, shift the companies' written plan closer to earlier comments by the agency.
In a joint response to questions following the letter, the two companies responsible for cleanup said they remain committed to cooperating with the EPA to remediate the river.
The toxins have been at the site since the 1960s, when dioxin-laden sludge from a nearby paper mill was buried.
These byproducts of pulp bleaching and other industrial processes build up in the fatty tissue of fish and humans. At high levels, they cause cancer as well as hormone changes, liver damage, skin diseases, reproductive issues and immune suppression, according to the EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Hou Chron [ [link removed] ] ($)
NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE
> HOU CHRON: "Katy church affirming LGBTQ+ community celebrates anniversary, resilience" HOU CHRON [ [link removed] ]
> SA REPORT: "Gov. Greg Abbott orders minors banned from THC products" SA REPORT [ [link removed] ]
> FWST: "By honoring Charlie Kirk, Jerry Jones violates his own take on politics | Opinion" FWST [ [link removed] ]
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "Learn more about Northwest ISD’s voter-approval tax rate election at these 7 community events" COMMUNITY IMPACT [ [link removed] ]
> KXAN: "Michael McCaul won’t seek reelection after 11 terms in Congress" KXAN [ [link removed] ]
> EP TIMES: "500 Texas National Guard troops arrive in El Paso for border security" EP TIMES [ [link removed] ]
> SAEN: "Police detain North Texas high school graduate after Charlie Kirk killing" SAEN [ [link removed] ]
> HOU CHRON: "I was on Baylor's board. The university should take anti-LGBT bigotry seriously." HOU CHRON [ [link removed] ]
> DMN: "Driverless semis are taking over Texas roads, but regulations struggle to keep pace" DMN [ [link removed] ]
> TX TRIB: "ICE seeks to deport DACA recipient after arrest at El Paso airport" TX TRIB [ [link removed] ]
> KXAN: "‘We’re all heartbroken’: 3 people, including 8-year-old, killed in shooting at Georgetown apartment" KXAN [ [link removed] ]
> SA REPORT: "San Antonio’s Tobin Land Bridge wins prestigious architects award" SA REPORT [ [link removed] ]
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "The Woodlands’ Bowtique blends international fashion with Texas charm" COMMUNITY IMPACT [ [link removed] ]
> KXAN: "Texas nursing students return from life-changing internship in Africa" KXAN [ [link removed] ]
EXTRA POINTS
This past weekend's Texas sports scores:
Sat
> NCAAF: #7 Texas 27, UTEP 10
> NCAAF: #16 Texas A&M 41, #8 Notre Dame 40
> NCAAF: #21 Texas Tech 45, Oregon State 14
> NCAAF: SMU 28, Missouri State 10
> NCAAF: TCU 42, Abilene Christian 21
> NCAAF: Baylor 42, Samford 7
> NCAAF: North Texas 59, Washington State 10
> NCAAF: UTSA 48, Incarnate Word 20
> NCAAF: Rice 38, Prairie View A&M 17
> NCAAF: Nebraska 59, Houston Christian 7
> NCAAF: Arizona State 34, Texas State 15
> MLB: Texas 3, NYM 2
> MLB: Houston 6, Atlanta 2
> MLS: Dallas 2, Austin 0
> MLS: Colorado 2, Houston 1
Sun
> NFL: Dallas 40, NYG 37
> MLB: Houston at Atlanta
> MLB: NYM 5, Texas 2
> MLB: Atlanta 8, Houston 3
> NWSL: Utah 2, Houston 0
Tonight's Texas sports scores:
> 6pm: NFL: Tampa Bay at Houston (ESPN)
> 7:10pm: MLB: Texas at Houston
Tomorrow's Texas sports scores:
> 7:10pm: MLB: Texas at Houston
DALLAS COWBOYS: "Aubrey ends wild Prescott-Wilson duel with FG as time expires in OT as Cowboys top Giants 40-37" AP [ [link removed] ]
DALLAS COWBOYS: "Cowboys sign veteran pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney, Jerry Jones says" AP [ [link removed] ]
DALLAS COWBOYS: "Dallas Cowboys, offensive guard Tyler Smith agree to four-year, $96 million extension" DMN [ [link removed] ]
DALLAS COWBOYS: "Kicker Brandon Aubrey has become quite the game changer for the Cowboys" AP [ [link removed] ]
HOUSTON ASTROS: "Albies drives in 3 and León homers in 1st start since 2023 as Braves beat Astros 8-3" AP [ [link removed] ]
TEXAS RANGERS: "Alonso’s 10th-inning homer lifts Mets over Rangers 5-2, stops 8-game losing streak" AP [ [link removed] ]
TEXAS FOOTBALL: "Arch Manning promises to improve as Texas prepares for its last game before SEC play" AP [ [link removed] ]
TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL: "No. 16 Texas A&M beats No. 8 Notre Dame 41-40 on late TD strike" AP [ [link removed] ]
TEXAS STATE FOOTBALL: "Flying Leavitt and Tyson provide spark in Arizona State’s 34-15 win over Texas State" AP [ [link removed] ]

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