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  • Texas capitol evacuated after officials warn lawmakers of ‘credible threats’

    Alert to politicians and staffers in Austin issued hours after one Minnesota Democrat was killed and another injured

    The Texas department of public safety has warned state lawmakers and legislative staffers of “credible threats” to their safety, hours after two Minnesota politicians were targeted early Saturday.

    An alert was issued just before 1pm local time, alerting legislators planning to attend a “No Kings” anti-Trump rally at the capitol in Austin. The area was evacuated soon after, according to the Texas Tribune, which first obtained a copy of the warning.

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  • Texas governor orders national guard to deploy for protests in San Antonio

    Greg Abbott says troops ‘on standby’ in response to local police request ahead of planned protests this week

    The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has ordered the state’s national guard to deploy to the city of San Antonio ahead of immigration-related protests planned for this week, saying the soldiers are “on standby”.

    Abbott posted on social media early on Wednesday that the national guard “will be deployed to locations across the state to ensure peace & order. Peaceful protest is legal. Harming a person or property is illegal & will lead to arrest.”

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  • I crisscrossed America to talk to people whose views I disagreed with. I now have one certainty

    I’ve spoken to white nationalists in Tennessee and Black activists in Texas – and learned about what it takes to connect across difference

    The residential community was lodged near a national forest on the outskirts of Scottsdale, Arizona. Forbidding gates and sentry posts restricted access to the exclusive development and its elegant homes. But security here went much further.

    Each cul-de-sac in the colony had its own individual railway gate, and many of the homeowners had installed gates across their own driveways as well. Anyone coming in or out of those houses would have to clear three checkpoints that set them apart from the wider world beyond.

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  • SpaceX may have solved one problem, only to find more on latest Starship flight

    SpaceX made some progress on another test flight of the world’s most powerful rocket Tuesday, finally overcoming technical problems that plagued the program’s two previous launches.

    But minutes into the mission, SpaceX’s Starship lost control as it cruised through space, then tumbled back into the atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean nearly an hour after taking off from Starbase, Texas, the company’s privately-owned spaceport near the US-Mexico border.

    SpaceX’s next-generation rocket is designed to eventually ferry cargo and private and government crews between the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. The rocket is complex and gargantuan, wider and longer than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, and after nearly two years of steady progress since its first test flight in 2023, this has been a year of setbacks for Starship.

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  • Mexican singer cancels show in Texas citing visa revocation

    Julión Álvarez was to perform before 50,000 fans in Texas, but he is the latest Mexican musician to have their visa revoked

    A popular Mexican singer had to cancel a concert in Texas scheduled for Saturday after the Trump administration allegedly revoked his visa, preventing him from entering the country. The singer, Julión Álvarez, was supposed to perform for 50,000 fans at the Arlington, Texas, stadium where the Dallas Cowboys play but was informed that his visa was revoked with no further information, according to a video statement he posted on Instagram.

    “We don’t have the ability to come to the US and fulfill our commitment to you,” the singer said. “The event will be postponed, until we hear what comes next.”

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  • As Texas’s measles outbreak slows, officials warn of rise in other states

    Cases in New Mexico and Kansas give experts reason to be ‘concerned’ in second-worst US measles year since 2000

    The measles outbreak in Texas is showing signs of slowing, though other states are seeing more cases and health officials are warning against complacency as the US continues to experience high rates of measles amid falling vaccination rates.

    It has been a handful of days since anyone in Lubbock, Texas, has tested positive, and there are no known measles hospitalizations at the children’s hospital in the city, which has also cared for children from nearby Gaines county.

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  • Critics say the movement to defund the police failed. But Austin and Seattle are seeing progress

    The rallying cry from 2020 Black Lives Matter protests pushed some US cities to divert money towards housing and community services

    After George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020, protesters who swarmed the streets across the US shouted the refrain: “Defund the police.” An idea that was once viewed as radical – to redirect money from law enforcement to other city departments and social services – became a rallying cry overnight.

    As a result of continued pressure, dozens of jurisdictions throughout the nation promised to reduce their police budgets. While most of them backtracked and increased law enforcement funding in the next year or two, several cities changed policies or added new public safety and homeless services departments.

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  • This doctor calls LGBTQ+ rights ‘satanic’. He could now undo healthcare for millions

    Exclusive: A rightwing activist behind a current supreme court challenge has spent decades railing against ‘homosexual behavior’

    Steven Hotze, a Republican donor from Texas, has spent decades fighting against LGBTQ+ rights, with campaigns seeking to roll back protections for people he has deemed “termites”, “morally degenerate” and “satanic”.

    The Houston-area physician is not well-known in mainstream politics, and his efforts targeting queer and trans people have generally been local, with limited impact.

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  • A Texas man is seeking justice for his brother who died in police custody: ‘He was a good person’

    Glenn Smallwood had schizoaffective disorder. Instead of a hospital, police took him to jail and strapped him to a chair

    Two days before he died, a 33-year-old father and US army veteran named Glenn Smallwood Jr was talking about building a house. His younger brother, John, was remodeling a home in Lufkin, Texas, where both brothers lived, and Glenn asked whether he could help.

    “He was so happy about the idea of working with me and turning his life around,” John said. “He was thinking positively about his future. I think about this memory often.”

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  • Storms kill 16 across US including nine dead in ‘mass casualty event’ in Kentucky

    Storms also killed seven in Missouri, spawned tornadoes in Wisconsin and brought a heatwave to Texas

    Storm systems sweeping across the midwestern US have left at least 16 dead, including nine people killed after a tornado sparked what authorities called a mass casualty event in south-eastern Kentucky.

    Kentucky authorities said there were also severe injuries when a twister tore across Laurel county late on Friday.

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