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Texas border effort gets $495 million boost after GOP leaders tap federal COVID-19 aid, shift funds

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is scrambling to come up with nearly a half-billion dollars to pay the growing tab for its decision to post National Guard soldiers at the southern border.

Tribune News Service

Self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to ‘red pill’ anti-lockdown crusader: What are Elon Musk’s politics?

The Tesla and SpaceX tycoon has donated to both parties and attacked everyone from Joe Biden through Donald Trump to trade unions and ‘pronouns’, but underneath it all there is a consistent ideology, writes Io Dodds

The Independent UK

Abbott asks for donation to bus migrants

The reversal comes after Abbott's stunt backfired badly among conservatives

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Guardsmen who drowned on Texas border had no float device

Texas officials say a National Guard member who drowned on the U.S.-Mexico border while on duty wasn't wearing a flotation device and had not been issued one

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott’s Wasteful Border War Is Draining the State’s Coffers

The cost, scope, cruelty, and failure of the governor’s immigration dragnet far exceed that of any of his predecessors.

Texas Observer

Texas governor’s plan to bus migrants to DC appears to backfire

Migrants are thanking governor for free bus ride north

The Independent UK

Texas Governor Wants Elon Musk To Bring Twitter Near Tesla, SpaceX In His State

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday threw at Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk an idea to shift Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) headquarters to the second-largest U.S.

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Body of missing Texas National Guard soldier recovered near US-Mexico border

DALLAS — The body of Bishop E. Evans, a Texas Army National Guard specialist reported missing Friday at the U.S.-Mexico border after he jumped into the Rio Grande to save two migrants, was recovered Monday morning.

Tribune News Service

Jokes, cheers and dire warnings: Twitter reacts to Musk’s takeover

As the self-declared ‘free-speech absolutist’ takes the reins, some activists and politicians fear for the platform’s future

The Guardian - US

‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

EXCLUSIVE: In just six days, Melissa Lucio will be strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs that will kill her for a murder that she not only says she didn’t commit – but that experts say didn’t even occur. Her son Bobby Alvarez tells Rachel…

The Independent UK

Texas Republican urges halt to ‘most troubling’ Melissa Lucio execution

Jeff Leach, leading push to stop possibly innocent woman being ‘murdered by the state’, calls case ‘most troubling I’ve ever seen’

The Guardian - US

Texas GOP wants to take over deportation

Experts say the plan is a "completely unserious" political stunt that will be struck down in court

Salon

Texas death row mother Melissa Lucio to learn of fate today as parole board considers clemency

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is considering a request to have her death sentence commuted to life imprisonment or to grant a 120-day execution reprieve

The Independent UK

From Kim Kardashian to Amanda Knox: Famous names who have joined fight for Melissa Lucio and why

With two days to go until Melissa Lucio will be executed in Texas for a crime she says she didn’t commit, a growing number of famous faces have joined the fight to save her life. Rachel Sharp writes

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Texas Observer

Texas Anti-Trans Laws Target Intersex People, Too

Bans on trans kids' healthcare ensure intersex people continue to be subject to medically unnecessary surgeries in infancy.

The Independent UK

Self-proclaimed ‘socialist’ to ‘red pill’ anti-lockdown crusader: What are Elon Musk’s politics and does he back Trump?

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Concern mounts as Melissa Lucio's execution nears

Nearly half of the jurors who sentenced a Texas woman to die for the 2007 death of one of her 14 children have called for her upcoming execution to be halted and for her to get a new trial

The Guardian - US

‘It is painful to have your child rejected’: the parents group fighting new anti-trans laws

As more Republican states target trans youth, a group of parents meet to push back on discriminatory legislation, share stories and celebrate

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The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Concern mounts as Melissa Lucio's execution nears

Nearly half of the jurors who sentenced a Texas woman to die for the 2007 death of one of her 14 children have called for her upcoming execution to be halted and for her to get a new trial

Tribune News Service

National Guard searching for soldier swept away while he helped migrant struggling in Texas river

The search continued on Saturday for a soldier swept away by the Rio Grande as he tried to rescue migrants struggling in the water along the U.S. border.

Tribune News Service

DeSantis’s Disney action marks new culture war phase ahead of 2024 election

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s move against Walt Disney Corp. this week shows he’s willing to take the Republican Party’s culture war to new heights — with a frontal assault on one of his state’s biggest and most iconic employers — as he jockeys for position in a potentially crowded 2024…

The Independent UK

‘Fighting for momma bear’: Melissa Lucio’s son begs Texas to halt her execution for a crime he knows ‘she couldn’t have done’

The Independent UK

Texas governor says arresting terror watch list suspects at US border ‘is making our country less secure’

In an interview with Fox News Abbott says he is ‘bringing the border to Biden’

Los Angeles Times

Can Texas declare a border 'invasion' and return migrants to Mexico?

HOUSTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is facing mounting pressure from far-right and former Trump administration officials to immediately declare a migrant "invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border, under a constitutional provision that would allow local law enforcement and National Guard troops to stop migrants at the border and send them…

Tribune News Service

Abbott-appointed task force releases concert safety strategies in response to Astroworld

DALLAS — The Texas Task Force on Concert Safety, formed in the wake of the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston, released a final report Tuesday with recommendations aiming to keep concertgoers safe at shows across the state.

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