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Emergency surgery for Texas A&M’s Reveille X sparks emotional fan response
The Times of India
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Aggies send love as Reveille X recovers from emergency eye surgery (Image via Getty) Texas A&M’s iconic live mascot, Reveille X, underwent surgery this week to have her right eye removed after veterinarians diagnosed her with glaucoma and...
Column: Local educators want Aurora to offer first ‘recovery high school’ in state
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 24, 2025
With more than 25 years of experience in social work and addiction counseling, Bridget Flanigan comes with plenty of street cred when she proclaims, “I’ve walked the journey with kids and their families. I’ve seen how big the cracks can be and how...
Texas was first to expand college access for undocumented students. Now it’s leading the rollback.
The 19th News
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July 23, 2025
Two decades ago, Texas made history as the first state to grant in-state tuition to undocumented students. Now, it has taken that opportunity away — upending thousands of young lives and, advocates warn, potentially influencing other states to...
STAAR testing elimination on Texas Legislature Special Session agenda
FOX 7 Austin - Texas
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Lawmakers were close to replacing the STAAR test at the end of the regular session, but they couldn't come to an agreement. FOX 7 Austin's Jessica Rivera has the details. AUSTIN, Texas - Back on the agenda during this legislative special session:...
RELIGION HEADLINES THR 7-24-25
SRN News
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July 24, 2025
Audio By Carbonatix ( SRN NEWS ) Officials in some states are taking aim at higher education, seeking to make state supported schools less hostile to conservatives and Christians. Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Iowa and Idaho have increasingly...
Highest-earning counties in Texas
KONO 101.1 - Texas
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July 24, 2025
Data shows that annual annual income depends heavily on an individual's educational attainment, race, ethnicity, gender, and even location. One cluster of the United States is particularly well off: The five of the seven counties with the highest...
'We will not let Trump Takeover': Texans rally as state lawmakers begin redistricting hearings
Texas Public Radio
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July 24, 2025
The Texas Legislature kicked off a series of hearings Thursday focused on a rare mid-decade push by top Republicans to redraw the maps for the state's congressional districts. Ahead of the meeting of the Texas House's Special Committee on...
Guadalupe County makes three arrests in ongoing emphasis of crimes related to children, domestic violence
KSAT - Texas
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July 25, 2025
GUADALUPE COUNTY, Texas – Guadalupe County deputies arrested three people with outstanding warrants on Tuesday in connection with an ongoing effort by the sheriff’s office. The arrests were announced on GCSO’s Facebook page after KSAT reported...
Ken Paxton Stands Up for Texas Oil
CNSNews
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For centuries, the measure of a business’s success has been profits. Over the past decades, efforts have been made to retain talented workers with more perks and benefits. Then it was decided that corporations need to display a social conscience...
A&M women's basketball team earns national academic recognition
My Aggie Nation - Texas
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Lauren Ware made the first-year Southeastern Conference academic honor roll in 2023-24 after she transferred in from Arizona. She made the 2025 winter SEC academic honor roll last season. ISHIKA SAMANT, TEXAS A&M ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Robert Cessna...
Lawmakers & activists protest “cruel” bathroom bill outside state capitol: “Leave our bodies alone”
LGBTQ Nation - California
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July 24, 2025
A coalition of women gathered on the steps of the Texas Capitol building on Wednesday to voice their strong opposition to an anti-trans bathroom bill and to blast the legislation’s Republican supporters for using women’s rights and safety as a...
Texas debates between prohibition and regulation of THC
El País
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July 24, 2025
Just weeks after Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed a bill banning THC products, state senators have brought the issue back to the table. Lawmakers introduced legislation nearly identical to the one vetoed by Abbott in June, which seeks to ban the...
Democrats rally at Texas Capitol as GOP pushes forward with redistricting plans
KHOU - Texas
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July 24, 2025
Texas Democrats are threatening to leave the state to halt proceedings as Republicans push forward with controversial redistricting plans. AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers are taking public testimony Thursday about plans to redraw the state's...
Startup Union eyes share of 155mm shell production at new Texas facility
Breaking Defense
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July 24, 2025
US Army Charlie Battery, 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery perform a series of 155mm calibration fires to ensure accuracy in brigade operations. (DVIDS) WASHINGTON — At a time when the US Army is working to ramp up 155mm artillery round...
Season Recap: Women’s Outdoor Track & Field
BVM Sports
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July 24, 2025
Via Prairie View A&M University Athletics, 4h ago Prairie View A&M’s women’s outdoor track and field team wrapped up a strong 2025 season with championship determination, standout individual efforts, and a fourth-place finish at the SWAC Outdoor...
Combs Announces 2025-26 Women’s Golf Slate
BVM Sports
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July 24, 2025
Austin Peay State University's head women's golf coach, Jessica Combs, unveiled the 2025-26 competition schedule, highlighting new tournaments and familiar opponents. The season begins with the Total Athlete Collegiate Tournament in Ohio on...
As deportation fears keep immigrants from work, their churches feel financial strain
Religion News Service
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July 24, 2025
(RNS) — At Celebration Church, a Portuguese- and English-speaking Baptist congregation in the Boston area, the benevolence fund is supposed to be there to help church families meet basic needs, such as food, clothing and heat, throughout the year....
‘Shiny Happy People’ returns to examine the Christian culture war pioneer Teen Mania
Religion News Service
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July 24, 2025
(RNS) — In 1999, a man in his 30s, dressed in a red button-down shirt, stood in front of some 73,000 Christian teens and invited them into battle. “Do we have any fighting men and women in here ready for a fight for some souls?” Ron Luce, founder...
Gay educator & U.S. citizen detained for hours at border: “The definition of psychological terror”
LGBTQ Nation - California
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July 24, 2025
The superintendent of a Vermont school district says he was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while re-entering the country with his husband on Monday, an experience he described as “the definition of psychological...
NCMEC, tech experts, Crime Stoppers Houston discuss rise in A.I. generated child sexual abuse material
FOX 26 Houston - Texas
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Two U.S. senators introduced a bill against AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children spoke with FOX 26's Leslie DelasBour about the issue and how legislation can help fix it. HOUSTON -...