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Not so fast: Greg Abbott, Texas Republicans face a complex election landscape after abortion ruling, Uvalde shooting

Both Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke hope to define the election on issues viewed as favorable to their own parties.

The Texas Tribune

Comptroller Glenn Hegar is reminding voters he’s a Republican ahead of his November election

Hegar, who is running for his third term as Texas comptroller of public accounts, has made increasingly provocative moves in recent weeks, challenging financial companies he says are anti-oil and gas and threatening budget sanctions against Harris County over police funding.

The Texas Tribune

Photos from Uvalde: How a grief-stricken community prepared to send its children back to school

Today, students in Uvalde return to classrooms for the first day of school, just 15 weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history.

The Texas Tribune

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Alabama vs Texas Prediction, Game Preview

Alabama vs Texas game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 2 game on Saturday, September 10

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Uvalde school year starts amid fear and unfinished security

A new and worrisome school year begins Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas

The Independent UK

Texas believes it can upset Alabama, even if few others do

AUSTIN, Texas — In video game terms, Alabama football would rank as the final boss at the end, the scary insurmountable larger-than-life challenge.

Tribune News Service

Texas Panhandle City Mourns Death of High School Football Player

Yahir Cancino suffered a severe head injury in a game Thursday, and his organs have been donated by his family.

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Steve Sarkisian Downplays Significance of Texas-Alabama Matchup

Ahead of Saturday’s much-anticipated meeting with the Crimson Tide, Sarkisian cautioned against viewing the game as a potential program-defining opportunity.

Sports Illustrated

‘Human crisis’: Chicago seeks help as Texas buses over migrants

Chicago says about 125 asylum seekers, many of them families with small children, arrived from Texas so far.

Al Jazeera

Alex Jones sarcastically claims he killed Sandy Hook victims in unhinged rant about defamation verdict

Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $4m in compensatory damages to victim’s family, as well as $45.2m in punitive damages

The Independent UK

USA TODAY Super 25 Scores: The top stays dominant, St. Frances has statement win over DeSoto

See how all the teams in the first USA TODAY Sports Super 25 fared in last week's action.

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, but These Teams May Need To

From Iowa’s offensive woes to the ACC’s road trips, it could be time to rethink these longstanding approaches.

Sports Illustrated

Beto Hits the Road for the Last Leg of His Tour

The Democratic nominee for governor wooed rural voters on on his 49-day tour of the state.

Texas Observer

16 Uvalde fourth graders waited an hour with injured teacher

When Elsa Avila looks at the scar that runs down her torso, she can't help remember May 24, when a gunman stormed her fourth grade wing at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers and leaving her and others injured

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Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande

With the river on the brink, authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom.

The Texas Tribune

High-poverty schools struggle to earn Texas’ highest rating. Some in the Rio Grande Valley break that trend.

The Texas Education Agency has dismissed the notion that the accountability ratings are a poverty rating. As evidence, they point to districts like those in the Rio Grande Valley, which have achieved high marks while serving a high number of economically disadvantaged students.

The Guardian - US

Conservative Texas phone company fueling extremist takeover of schools

Patriot Mobile, a ‘Christian conservative wireless provider’, is targeting school board elections to push its far-right agenda

Chicago Tribune

As more migrants arrive in Chicago, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urges Texas governor to collaborate

Mayor Lori Lightfoot encouraged residents to help support a second wave of migrants who arrived Sunday afternoon by bus in Chicago and urged Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to collaborate on a more humane transition.

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Chicago Sun-Times

50 more immigrants arrive in Chicago from Texas; city launches website for donations

On Sunday, Lightfoot again lambasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for “manufacturing a human crisis” by sending immigrants to the city with no prior communication as to their needs.

The Texas Tribune

Greg Abbott to launch television ad targeting Beto O’Rourke over police funding

The ad is based on O’Rourke’s 2020 comments that he appreciates protesters bringing up defunding certain line items “that have overmilitarized our police.” But at recent town hall meetings, O’Rourke has said he does not support defunding the police.

Ballotpedia

Greg Abbott spent more than any other Republican statewide candidate or officeholder in Texas

Texas Republican statewide candidates and officeholders have spent $140.9 million during the 2022 election cycle. Among statewide officials and candidates, Greg Abbott has spent more than any other Republican.

Ballotpedia

Beto O’Rourke spent more than any other Democratic statewide candidate or officeholder in Texas

Texas Democratic statewide candidates and officeholders have spent $24.2 million during the 2022 election cycle. Among statewide officials and candidates, Beto O’Rourke has spent more than any other Democrat.

The Independent UK

Mistrial in abuse case in Texas against ex-MVP Wetteland

A Texas judge has declared a mistrial in the child sex assault case against former All-Star and World Series MVP pitcher John Wetteland after the jury deadlocked

Sports Illustrated

Texas TE Jahleel Billingsley Serving Six-Game Suspension

The senior tight end did not play in the Longhorns’ season opener on Saturday.

The Texas Tribune

Two Republican foes of Dan Patrick support Democrat Mike Collier for lieutenant governor

Both Republicans have been at odds with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and neither of them are running for reelection.

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