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Consumer Alert!
East Texas Review
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July 8, 2025
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a consumer alert to protect Texans against bad actors looking to take advantage of the devastating flooding in Texas by perpetrating scams. “There are no words for how wrong it is that morally bankrupt...
The Texas flood disaster: Trump’s Hurricane Katrina
World Socialist Web Site
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July 10, 2025
A crew of firefighters from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, left, aid in search and rescue efforts near the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area, Monday, July 7, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. [AP Photo/Eli Hartman]Texas Governor Greg Abbott...
Texas tragedy makes it crystal clear — the GOP is wrong
Raw Story
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July 8, 2025
Since Friday, more than 80 people, including dozens of young summer camp attendees, have died in Central Texas from flooding intensified by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis. With search-and-rescue operations ongoing and active flash flood...
Gov. Abbott adds flood-related items to Texas Legislature's special session agenda
NBC 5 DFW - Texas
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July 9, 2025
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in response to the deadly Texas flooding, added flood-related items to the agenda for the Texas Legislature's special session set to begin July 21. Last month, after vetoing the THC ban, Abbott called for the special...
'It was devastating': Omaha native share his experience during deadly Texas floods
KETV 7 - Nebraska
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July 10, 2025
CAUSED THE MOST DESTRUCTION. AN OMAHA NATIVE WHO NOW LIVES IN TEXAS, SAYS HIS HOUSE IS UNTOUCHED, BUT THE COMMUNITY IS DEVASTATED. HE SAW SOME OF THE DEVASTATION ON HIS WAY HOME LAST SATURDAY. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S MADDIE AUGUSTINE JOINS US NOW...
Texas rescue helicopter forced to make emergency landing after colliding with private drone
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 8, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Kerrville community mourns beloved coach, family among Texas flooding victims
FOX 7 Austin - Texas
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This was the first time people from Kerrville ISD have come together since the flooding. Residents prayed for the lives lost and for the families still searching for their loved ones. KERRVILLE. Texas - This was the first time people from...
Did cloud seeding play a role in devastating Texas floods? Experts say no
News Channel 6 - Texas
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July 10, 2025
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Support is pouring in from across the state to Central Texas communities that are reeling from devastating floods. As rescue, recovery and rebuilding efforts have ramped up, so have theories about the cause for the...
Bill Nye Says Preventing Disasters Like Texas Flood Is Possible, but Congress Denies Climate Change Exists | Video
The Wrap
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July 9, 2025
According to Bill Nye’s expert opinion, if Congress stopped denying the existence of climate change, disasters like this past weekend’s Texas flash flood could be prevented. While talking to Dana Bash on CNN, the Science Guy broke down the need to...
NBA star Tony Parker asks $16.5M for over-the-top Texas mansion — featuring a water park with 8 pools
New York Post
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July 9, 2025
Texas’ splashiest celebrity mansion — with the state’s, and possibly the country’s, largest private residential water park — is back on the market for $16.5 million, The Post can reveal. Since 2009, this 53-acre estate located in the San Antonio...
Texas Enshrines New AI Consumer Protections and Enforcement Powers
InsideARM
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July 8, 2025
On June 22, the governor of Texas signed into law HB 149 to establish the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA) and regulate the conduct of AI developers broadly in the Lone Star State. TRAIGA bans AI models that...
The Austin Chronic: Will Texas Lawmakers Be Discerning Enough to Ban Synthetic Cannabinoids While Preserving Full-Spectrum Products?
The Austin Chronicle - Texas
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Gummies containing synthetics like Delta-8 THC and THCP -KC Last week, I paid $3 for a gas station weed gummy. The packaging was tacky, the texture was waxy, the aftertaste was unforgivably chemical, and its advertising boasted a ludicrous 420 mg...
Drivesavers Offers $1 Million In Free Data Recovery For Texas Flood Victims
MENAFN
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July 9, 2025
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) "When disasters like this strike, your data is more than files - it's your life, your memories, your work. Texans should not lose that too," said Scott Moyer, President of DriveSavers Data Recovery. "Data is more than files -...
Inside Panda Biotech’s Push to Bring U.S.-Grown Hemp Into Mass Production
Sourcing Journal - New York
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July 9, 2025
The denim and larger apparel industries have long flirted with hemp as a sustainable alternative fiber, but commercial-scale supply chains in the U.S. remained elusive—until now. This spring, Panda Biotech and TDMI Twin Dragon debuted the first...
Former Texans star J.J. Watt and wife donate $100k to Texas flood recovery
Straight Arrow News
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July 10, 2025
[CHRIS FRANCIS] Houston Texans legend J.J. Watt is lending a helping hand once again. Amid the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts after devastating flash floods across Texas’s Hill Country, the former football player and his wife, Kealia, are...
Did Trump's National Weather Service staffing cuts hurt Texas flood response? What we know
Snopes
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July 9, 2025
After the catastrophic flash flooding in central Texas on July 4, 2025, users online claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was ultimately to blame for the flood's 100 deaths due to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service....
Elite group of veterans deploy to aid in Texas flood rescues as death toll hits triple digits
Military Families
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July 9, 2025
When the power at retired soldier Mike Dinesman’s San Antonio, Texas, home began fluctuating late on July 3, he had an uncomfortable intuition: something big was coming. It was indeed, with catastrophic flooding along central Texas’ Guadalupe...
Texas A&M still stuck in Texas' shadow after rivalry's SEC reunion. Can it escape?
The New York Times
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July 8, 2025
Editor’s note: All week, The Athletic is writing about college football rivalries at a moment of change in the sport. Read our ranking of the top 100 rivalries here and also vote for your favorites. COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Across the street from...
Trump’s tax bill eliminates clean energy incentives, costing Arizona billions
Arizona Mirror
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July 9, 2025
The “one big, beautiful bill” that Republicans crafted and President Donald Trump signed last week eliminates a number of incentives for clean energy that will directly lead to billions in lost investments for the state of Arizona and thousands of...
Chemical recycling sector renews push for manufacturing status amid EPA rule changes
Waste Dive
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July 9, 2025
Chemical recycling supporters say they will continue to advocate for certain pyrolysis processes to be classified as manufacturing, not as a form of incineration or waste management. The industry’s renewed calls for reclassification come as the...