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LGBTQ+ advocates sue to block Texas’ new law that could criminalize some drag performances

State officials backing Senate Bill 12 have said they want to protect children from seeing sexually explicit performances. But new legal challenges say the law is so broad and vague that it criminalizes constitutionally protected expression.

The Texas Tribune

Body found trapped in Greg Abbott’s anti-migrant buoys along Mexico-Texas border

First fatalities confirmed near Greg Abbott’s floating barrier in the Rio Grande

The Independent UK

Body found stuck to floating barrier backed by Greg Abbott in Rio Grande, Mexico says

Mexican authorities are working to identify two bodies found in the Rio Grande, one of them spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had installed recently in the Rio Grande, across from Eagle Pass, Texas

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Willy the Texas rodeo goat is found safe after running free for weeks

Prizes and presents worth a combined $5,000 (£3948) from local businesses were collected to find the missing goat

Evening Standard

Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, one found near a floating barrier that Texas installed

The Independent UK

Forty Observations About the 2023 College Football Season

Pat Forde takes a look at who’s got it easy, who’s got it hard and who can possibly topple Georgia.

Sports Illustrated

First Thing: Trump to appear in court over charges he conspired to overturn 2020 election

Former president scheduled to surrender to federal authorities in Washington and enter not guilty plea. Plus, inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline

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Ken Paxton moves one step closer to trial on long-delayed securities fraud charges

The impeached attorney general appeared in a Houston courtroom, where lawyers from both sides agreed to return in October to set an expected trial date on charges that have been pending since 2015.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Medicaid dropped more than 500,000 enrollees in one month

Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

WEKU

Texas Medicaid drops 82% of its enrollees since April

Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

WEKU

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to appear in Houston court hearing for his securities fraud trial

Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is set to appear in a Houston courtroom to discuss his nearly decade-long delayed trial on securities fraud charges

The Independent UK

Mexico says the first body has been spotted near a floating barrier in the Rio Grande river

The Mexican government says the first dead body has been spotted along the floating barriers that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio Grande river, across from Eagle Pass

The Independent UK

Texas A&M interim president pledges more transparency after accusations of political interference

In his first comments as interim president, Mark A. Welsh IIII cast recent concerns over political interference in Texas A&M’s employment decisions as “communication breakdowns.”

The Texas Tribune

Suspended Texas A&M professor denies saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick believes overdose victims “deserve to die”

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham alleged Wednesday that opioids expert Joy Alonzo told students in a guest lecture that “Your Lt. Governor says those kids deserve to die.” Alonzo denied the claims.

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Johnny Manziel Announces New Business Venture Near Texas A&M

The establishment is scheduled to open in the fall.

The Independent UK

Willy the Texas rodeo goat, on the lam for weeks, has been found safe

Willy the rodeo goat has lassoed the hearts of residents in a rural South Texas county ever since she escaped from an animal enclosure July 15

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Tesla Seeks $100M For Semi Charging Route Between California And Texas

Tesla proposes to build a $100M charging network for electric semi-trucks, seeking nearly $97M in federal grants.

Texas Observer

How the ‘1-Mile Rule’ Protects Big Polluters from Citizen Complaints

The policy has been denounced in lawsuits and petitions, but the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality denies that the 1-mile rule exists.

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InsideEVs

Tesla Reportedly Expands Magic Dock Availability To Texas

As per the Twitter post, the expansion occurred in Eastchase Fort Worth, Texas, where the installers used a rented Ford F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup to test the CCS functionality.

Chicago Sun-Times

Astros’ Framber Valdez no-hits Guardians on 93 pitches

“It’s a wonderful day,” Housto manager Dusty Baker said. “(Valdez) started out with a bang. He had his breaking ball from the very beginning … and you could tell he was on and he stayed on.”

InsideEVs

Tesla Planning Nine Semi-Truck Charging Stations From CA To TX

Each station would be equipped with eight 750-kW chargers for Tesla Semi trucks and four chargers for electric trucks made by rivals, according to Bloomberg.

The Guardian - US

‘The cruelty Olympics’: Texas workers condemn elimination of water breaks

Outdoor workers express anger and fear of potential repercussions after governor rescinds mandatory breaks amid extreme heat

The Texas Tribune

How an internship program hopes to end “brain drain” in Texas’ Permian Basin and other rural regions

This is the third year businesses in the Permian Basin — known for high school football and oil fields — have participated in the University of Texas at Austin program. Students this year say they are seeing their hometowns in a new way.

WEKU

Communities of faith welcome migrants caught in polarized immigration debate

When migrants from Latin America were flown from Texas and dropped off in Sacramento with nowhere to go, a group of congregations came together to care for them.

Sports Illustrated

What Every Contender Did at the MLB Trade Deadline

Each potentially playoff-bound team made some moves, big or small. Here’s where things stand heading into the season’s home stretch.

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