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Flour Bluff Independent School District enrolled total of 5,665 students in 2023-24 school year
Corpus Christi Sun - Texas
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July 29, 2025
There were 5,665 students enrolled in Flour Bluff Independent School District during the 2023-24 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year's 5,732 students welcomed, according to the Texas Education Agency. Among the student body, 52.6% were...
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Is Rewriting American Culture — And Boosting The Economy
Forbes
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PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 24: Beyoncé Knowles / Beyonce wears a cowboy hat, a burgundy faux fur fluff ... More coat on one shoulder, a blue denim shirt, during the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on June 24,...
Miyares offers no proof 2,500 immigrants arrested by Va. task force were violent offenders
InsideNoVa - Virginia
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Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares on Wednesday declined to provide evidence to support Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent claim that more than 2,500 people arrested through the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force were “violent criminals.”...
Texas man sues California doctor in unprecedented abortion pill case over unborn child’s alleged ‘murder’
Fox News
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A 50-year fight to put abortion back in the hands of states ended three years ago with the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision, but the pro-life movement is now grappling with a new reality — abortion remains prevalent. NEWYou can now listen...
Houston employment dips to 2016 levels, future growth hinges on immigration and trade policies
The Business Journals
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July 26, 2025
Houston's job market is facing headwinds, with recent numbers showing slower growth than usual. A local economist explains why immigration policies could be the key factor in determining the region's employment future.
For these Mexican firefighters, finding migrants’ bodies on the border prepared them to help in the Texas flooding recovery
CNN
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July 27, 2025
Pulling dead bodies of migrants and their children from the raging waters of the Rio Grande along the US-Mexico border is something a group of Mexican firefighters from border town Ciudad Acuña are used to. Techniques honed during routine...
Texas Removes 1.8 Million People From Health Care Plan
Newsweek
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July 26, 2025
Almost 1.8 million Americans have been disenrolled from Medicaid health coverage in Texas in the last two years, according to data by KFF, a nonprofit health policy research and news organization. These Americans have lost their health insurance...
Tracee Ellis Ross Is Happy, Thanks
SELF Magazine
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July 29, 2025
Let me say it clearly: She was not wrong on this one. We are all indoctrinated into a culture where, for women, marriage equals good and single equals bad. The traditional heterosexual setup—two kids included—is put on a pedestal. That life isn’t...
Trump administration pushes to exclude undocumented immigrants from in-state tuition The Justice Department argues these tuition laws unfairly offer a benefit to foreigners that is unavailable to U.S. citizens and legal residents. Read More »
Yahoo News
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Texas let undocumented young people qualify for in-state college tuition for 24 years. President Donald Trump convinced the state to unravel the policy in a matter of hours. Since returning to the White House, Trump’s Justice Department has...
2-year-old girl killed after brother backs out of parking spot in southeast Houston, police say
ABC 13 - Texas
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July 27, 2025
Sunday, July 27, 2025 2:54PM A 2-year-old girl is dead after police said her brother backed a truck onto her in southeast Houston. HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A 2-year-old girl is dead after authorities said she was hit while her brother was leaving...
Knights on Bikes: Drinking beer, riding motorcycles, and sharing the faith
The Pillar
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July 29, 2025
On a Sunday in late July, two dozen bikers pulled up in front of the entrance to the controversial federal immigration center in Southern Florida, Alligator Alcatraz. The bikers wore t-shirts and leather vests. Many sported long hair and shaggy...
Korean-born permanent resident of US seized at airport, trapped in detention for 8 days
Korea Herald
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July 30, 2025
A Korean green-card holder and resident of Texas was detained by US federal agents at San Francisco International Airport and held for eight days without access to legal counsel, an advocacy group said Wednesday. According to the National Korean...
What Would Social Media Look Like if it Was Made for Women? How Women are Navigating Social Media During the Second Trump Administration
Ms. Magazine
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July 27, 2025
As the Trump administration rolls back women’s rights and emboldens online misogynists, women are turning to alternative digital spaces like Communia to protect their safety, build community and reclaim control online. The U.K. Women’s March on...
Project Marvel plans include renovating former courthouse into live events venue
Texas Public Radio
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July 29, 2025
Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. As part of Project Marvel, the former John H. Wood Jr. Federal Courthouse in Hemisfair could be repurposed into a live events venue. The...
Trump, immigration and ICE
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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To the editor: The president’s cruel, often illegal treatment of immigrants fills the news. There’s Alligator Alcatraz in Florida, brutal deportations on TV, now plans to re-open actual Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Local radio recently described...
Snyder Independent School District recorded 164 fewer students enrolled in 2023-24 school year than previous school year
West Texas News
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July 29, 2025
There were 2,396 students enrolled in Snyder Independent School District during the 2023-24 school year, 6.4% less than the previous year's 2,560 students welcomed, according to the Texas Education Agency. Among the student body, 52.8% were boys...
Texas Man Sues California Doctor in Federal Court for Mailing Abortion Pills to Girlfriend, Ramping Up Battle Against Shield Laws
The New York Sun
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July 26, 2025
A Texas man is suing a doctor in California, whom he alleges mailed abortion medication to his girlfriend to terminate two pregnancies. The lawsuit might speed up the process of the Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of shield laws. The...
Family, faith help shape seminarian’s vocation
Texas Catholic
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July 29, 2025
By Amy White The Texas Catholic Before Diocese of Dallas seminarian Nick Weiss considered a call to the priesthood, he had a few other paths in mind, his parents said. As a child, he dreamed he would become a paleontologist. Then he set his sights...
Chris Stapleton Hits No. 1 With One Of Country Music’s Most Successful Women
Forbes
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Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert’s first duet, “A Song to Sing,” debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s ... More Country Digital Song Sales chart with nearly 2,300 downloads. FRISCO, TEXAS - MAY 16: Chris Stapleton performs onstage at the 59th Academy...
AI-driven education: founded in Texas and coming to a school near you
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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“I’ve seen the future,” she wrote on social media, “and it isn’t 10 years away. It’s here, right now.” To detractors, Price’s “2 Hour Learning” model and Alpha School are just the latest in a long line of computerized fads that plunk children in...