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Commentary: Why the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico turned into a political spectacle

When the truck with North Carolina plates crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, on Friday, the so-called falcons in charge of monitoring the border area notified their bosses of the presence of four Americans.

Los Angeles Times

Girls in Texas could get birth control at federal clinics, until a Christian father objected

AMARILLO, Texas — On the vast Texas Panhandle, raked by wind and relentless sun, women might drive for hours to reach Haven Health, a clinic in Amarillo.

Tribune News Service

Arthur Brown defiant before execution and calls his death 'murder of an innocent man'

Arthur Brown Jr., 52, received a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1992 slayings, which took place in a Houston home during a drug robbery

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Texas bill requiring 10-year prison sentences for gun felonies faces opposition from criminal justice and firearm advocates

Under Senate Bill 23, all felonies involving a gun would incur a mandatory 10-year prison sentence. It’s meant to curb crime, despite the lack of correlation between harsher sentences and crime rates.

The Texas Tribune

Ukraine’s leading campaigner against Russian fossil fuels refused entry to top US energy conference

Svitlana Romanko travelled from her home in Ivano-Frankivsk, western Ukraine, to Houston, Texas before being denied entry to the event

The Independent UK

Arthur Brown executed 30 years after massacre of 4 people including pregnant teen

Arthur Brown Jr, mow 52, was condemned for the June 1992 deaths in a Houston home during a drug robbery - including shooting dead a pregnant 19-year-old woman

Daily Mirror

Lions send LB coach Kelvin Sheppard to Texas Longhorns pro day

The Lions sent LB coach Kelvin Sheppard to the Texas Longhorns pro day to watch LB DeMarvion Overshown and other prospects

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and senators unveil package of bills aimed at improving Texas’ power grid

The bills would allow the state to hire companies to build emergency gas-fueled power plants, among other ideas for swinging the state’s power balance away from wind and solar.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals issue four opinions from Feb. 27-March 5

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued three opinions from Feb. 27-March 5. The Texas Supreme Court issued one opinion from Feb. 27-March 5. Both courts are the state’s courts of last resort. As of March 5, the court of criminal appeals issued 66 opinions in 2023—26 more than this point…

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Lawmakers offer stark choices for ending the crisis in Texas’ youth prisons — shut them all down, or build more

Plagued by decades of scandals over sexual and physical abuse of children, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department is at a crossroads.

The Texas Tribune

Mum arrested after 'leaving her two children alone at home for a full two months'

Raven Yates, a 31-year-old mum-of-two from Texas, allegedly left her two children at home alone. She was found several months later in Alabama, hunderds of miles away from them

Daily Mirror

Texas led nation in white supremacist propaganda in 2022, report finds

Incidents increased by 61% in Texas and 38% nationally last year, driven by what experts say is an increasing normalization of extremism in political discourse.

The Texas Tribune

A group of Mexican-American teen caddies were forced to build their own golf course. Then they became champions

In 1957, a group of teen caddies at a Texas border country club won the state high school golf championship — despite being banned from courses and tournaments for being Mexican-American. Their story went untold for decades until another local golfer wrote a book — and now a film about…

The Independent UK

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy offers warm reception to Biden border proposal as Democrats recoil

The Austin Republican’s tacit approval only adds fuel to the fire for Texas Democrats recoiling at the report that the Biden administration could detain asylum-seekers.

The Texas Tribune

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Welcome to Snailbrook, the town Elon Musk is building in Texas

Dubbed “Snailbrook,” the 3,500-acre community will house workers from SpaceX, Tesla and Boring.

WEKU

Texas Tech men's basketball coach resigns after making racially insensitive comments

The school said head coach Mark Adams had encouraged a player "to be more receptive to coaching and referenced Bible verses about workers, teachers, parents, and slaves serving their masters."

Sports Illustrated

Bracket Watch: Wisconsin Suffers Devastating Loss, Pitt Not a Lock

Thursday is crucial for many teams that still need to play their way into the men’s NCAA tournament.

The Independent UK

Fifth American tourist reveals lucky escape from Mexico cartel kidnapping

Cheryl Orange was part of the group of American childhood friends who drove from South Carolina to the border so that Latavia ‘Tay’ McGee could get a tummy tuck procedure

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Texas executes Arthur Brown Jr. for Houston slayings despite claims of innocence, intellectual disability

Brown’s appeals ran out after almost 30 years on death row. Defense attorneys claim Harris County prosecutors hid evidence pointing to another suspect in the 1992 shooting deaths of four people in a Houston drug house.

The Texas Tribune

“I love my babies. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy”: One mother’s struggle to survive in pro-life Texas

Pregnancy forced Destiny Williams to quit her job. She almost died during childbirth. Now with a newborn in tow, she’s struggling to build a more stable life for her and her children.

WEKU

Girls in Texas could get birth control at federal clinics — until a dad sued

Trump-appointed federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ruled that free birth control for teens from a federal program violates Texas law and parental rights. For now, it's still available in other states.

The Guardian - US

How a pastor is trying to revive a 150-year-old US law to ban abortion

Mark Lee Dickson is trying to get the federal anti-obscenity law at the heart of ordinances enforced across the US

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: Forget decency. In today's politics it's all about nastiness and party loyalty

Last weekend, the Texas Republican Party voted to punish one of its own.

The Independent UK

Man who killed 4 during Houston drug robbery faces execution

A Texas inmate is facing execution for the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago

The Texas Tribune

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s new priority bills focus on school safety, requiring districts to adopt active-shooter plans

More than nine months after the Uvalde school shooting, top GOP lawmakers maintain focus on school safety reforms and investments in mental health resources in hopes it will prevent future tragedies.

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