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‘Drag queens aren’t going into schools to shoot kids’: Drag Queen Story Hour hits back at GOP ban attempts

The flamboyant LGBT+ education charity described Republican attacks as ‘smoke and mirrors’ to distract from gun control

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Texas judge halts 2 transgender child abuse probes

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Mysterious figure spotted at Texas zoo: ‘Unidentified Amarillo Object’

Weird form captured on security camera at fenceline of Amarillo Zoo

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Sixteen Republican governors oppose Biden administration’s executive order regarding taxpayer-funded construction contracts

Sixteen Republican governors wrote a letter to President Biden on April 26, 2022, opposing his executive order to mandate project labor agreements (PLAs) on taxpayer-funded construction contracts exceeding $35 million. The letter was signed by governors from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South…

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Jan. 6 hearings show the importance of democracy

If American democracy continues, we can fix the rest of our problems. If it disappears, we will no longer be a free country and the rest won’t matter.

Chicago Sun-Times

How to prepare for this weekend's heat wave stretching from California to Texas

Temperatures will rise into the triple digits across the Southwest and western U.S. this weekend. Daytime temps will be 10 to 20 degrees hotter than normal, according to the National Weather Service.

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Texas judge temporarily halts 2 transgender child abuse investigations

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Friday temporarily halted the state’s child abuse investigations into two families with transgender children, agreeing they faced immediate harm.

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Judge blocks Texas from investigating families of transgender children for abuse

Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have branded the gender-affirming care that is medically necessary for some transgender children as ‘child abuse’

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Searing US heat threatens to break records from California to Texas

Record heat will sear California and the U.S. Southwest in the coming days before pushing east and adding fuel to the sweltering weather that's been pummeling Texas and the southern Great Plains.

Tribune News Service

Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth

A Texas judge has temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender confirming care

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Texas energy grid expects surging demand as temperatures rise

With temperatures rising to nearly 39 C, Texas energy provider states it will have enough supply to match record demand.

Al Jazeera

Estimates of transgender youth in Texas doubles, study shows

AUSTIN, Texas — The number of transgender youth in Texas is higher than previously predicted at least in part due to better data collection, according to new estimates from the nation’s top research institute for LGBT issues.

Tribune News Service

Baby Holly: Seven other extraordinary missing persons cases that were unexpectedly solved

Oklahoma woman revealed by DNA investigation to be toddler who disappeared in 1980 after her parents were brutally murdered in Texas

The Independent UK

Photos: Georgia Bulldogs at NCAA Track & Field Championships

The Georgia Bulldogs entered the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the No. 1 team in the country.

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Texas massacre spurs Oregon gun-safety ballot initiative

A massacre at a school in Texas has spurred a ballot initiative in Oregon that would require permits to purchase firearms and ban large-capacity magazines

Tribune News Service

Uvalde school police chief defends law enforcement response, says ‘not a single officer ever hesitated’ amid mass shooting

The Uvalde, Texas, school police chief claims he did not wait to act when gunfire erupted inside Robb Elementary School in his first extended interview since the mass school shooting last month.

Texas Observer

Teachers Don’t Want Guns in Their Classrooms

In 1997, Joel Myrick, then an assistant principal at a Mississippi high school, used his personal pistol, which he kept in his truck, to stop a 16-year-old school shooter with a rifle. Even Myrick—one of the extremely rare cases of an armed teacher intervening in a school shooting—says that arming…

The Independent UK

Infowars bankruptcy tossed in deal with Sandy Hook parents

A federal judge in Texas has dismissed the bankruptcy protection case of Infowars and two other companies controlled by Alex Jones

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Oklahoma wins second consecutive Women’s College World Series crown

The Sooners (59-3) claimed the best-of-three series against Big 12 rival Texas 2-0 after winning Game 1 on Wednesday.

Zenger

Game Over: FBI Seizes Teen After Massacre Warning From Fellow Gamer

A Texas gamer called the FBI on a fellow Call of Duty player after the latter praised the Uvalde massacre and threatened a mass shooting of his own.

Salon

Uvalde hiring more school police

Texas town's response to botched police school shooting response? Throw more cops at it

The Guardian - US

Texas school police chief says he didn’t think he was in charge during shooting

Pete Arredondo says he intentionally left behind radios before entering school, as two more funerals are held for victims of the attack

The Independent UK

Finding Baby Holly was ‘a miracle,’ says genealogist who helped solve the 40-year-old mystery

EXCLUSIVE: Two genealogists helped ID murder victims found more than 40 years ago – and track down the couple’s missing baby the researchers only learned about from relatives, Sheila Flynn reports

Tribune News Service

Larry Printz: What’s new at Toyota? More than you think

PLANO, Texas — In what has become an annual tradition since the pandemic broke out, Toyota unveiled a number of new models to journalists last week at its U.S. headquarters in Plano. As Toyota is America’s bestselling automaker, any changes to its lineup truly matter. Here’s what’s coming to a…

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Baby Holly’s grandmother reveals joyful reunion after 40-year disappearance

EXCLUSIVE: Donna Casasanta, 80, tells Sheila Flynn about learning that her granddaughter - who vanished as an infant more than four decades ago after the murder of her parents - is alive, well and ready to meet in person

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