Topline Texas schools must conduct weekly inspections of their facilities’ outside doors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told state Commissioner of Education Mike Morath on Thursday, after police reported...
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Texas Governor Abbott Demands ‘Firearm Safety’ Committee After Uvalde Shooting
Topline Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday called for the Texas legislature to immediately convene committees to take “meaningful action” following last week’s mass shooting at a Uvalde eleme...
Traders Bet on Texas Natural Gas Discount Despite US Export Boom
(Bloomberg) — Natural gas exports from the US are soaring amid a global shortage of the fuel, but traders are betting that producers in one of the biggest shale basins will be selling their supp...
Video Appears To Show Texas 911 Dispatchers Telling Officers Children Were Calling For Help In Classroom
Police officers stand near a makeshift memorial for the shooting victims at Robb Elementary School … [+] in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022. – Grief at the massacre of 19 children at the el...
DOJ Will Review Police Response To Texas School Shooting
Topline The Department of Justice will review law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the agency announced Sunday, after local police were criticized for n...
Ted Cruz Wants To Make Texas “The Bitcoin Oasis”
Texas Senator Ted Cruz desires to make his state an Oasis for Bitcoin as well as other crypto-assets in the space. Ted Cruz also makes an argument that opposing party members are not very big fans of ...
Key Democrats Say Texas School Shooting Could Mark Turning Point On Gun Control
Topline Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is optimistic Congress could take “small and life saving steps” on gun control, the second highest-ranking Senate Democrat told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, as la...
Fayez Sarofim, The Egypt-Born, Texas Billionaire, Made A Fortune Betting On America’s Blue Chip Entrepreneurs
Fayez Sarofim with wife Susan, 2018. Getty Images for UNICEF Fayez Sarofim, the billionaire money manager, died Saturday at his home in Houston, at age 93. “I’ve always claimed it took someone from ab...
Trump Demands ‘Impenetrable Security’ At Schools Following Texas Massacre—But No Gun Control
Topline Former President Donald Trump on Friday called for a “top to bottom security overhaul at schools across our country,” including strict checkpoints and single points of entry at sch...
More Than A Thousand Gather To Protest Gun Violence Outside Houston NRA Conference After Uvalde Tragedy
Topline More than a thousand people—some carrying child-size coffins—as well as several Texas politicians, including Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke, gathered across the str...
Student Pleaded With 911 To ‘Send The Police Now’ As Officers On Scene Waited For Tactical Units To Arrive
Topline Texas authorities fleshed out their timeline Friday on the police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday that left 21 dead and 17 injured, as it e...
More Cancel NRA Convention Appearances — Here’s Who’s Going And What To Know
Topline Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) canceled his speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday, hours after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) canceled his appearance, days after...
Husband Of Teacher Killed Dies Of ‘Grief’ Days Later, Family Says
Topline The husband of Irma Garcia, one of the fourth-grade teachers who died in the shooting at Robb Elementary School, died just days after the attack, members of the Garcia family said Thursday. Cr...
Police Response Blasted In Texas Shooting That Left 19 Children Dead
Topline As loved ones grieve for 19 children and two teachers killed at an elementary school in rural Texas on Tuesday, increasing anger is being directed at police who responded to the massacre, afte...
Here’s What We Know About The Victims Identified In The Texas School Shooting
Topline Family members have identified the first victims of a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday after a gunman opened fire and killed at least nineteen children and two t...
19 Children Killed In Texas Elementary School Shooting As Biden Urges Americans To ‘Stand Up’ To Gun Industry
Topline President Joe Biden called on lawmakers to pass “common-sense gun laws” in an impassioned address Tuesday evening, after a shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children dead, saying, ...
Ted Cruz wants Texas to be a crypto hub
The senator from Texas has again spoken in enthusiastic terms about cryptocurrencies and wants to turn the state into a global hub for the industry. Texas as the new world hub for cryptocurrencies Ted...
Thai Billionaire Isara Vongkusolkit’s Banpu Buys Exxon Mobil’s Texas Gas Fields For $750 Million
The Barnett Shale Gas field in Fort Worth, Texas, is pictured at dusk on February 27, 2006. XTO … [+] Energy Inc. is extracting natural gas at this facility. J.G. Domke/Bloomberg News Banpu—cont...
Texas Set to Become Silicon Valley of Crypto World
Gamza Khanzadaev Texas has ambitions to become the most important cryptohub of the United States Cryptocurrencies, which have always been associated with decentralization, have logically never had a c...
Rural Electrification 2.0 – The Electric Truck Is Here
Ford F150 Lightning kicking dust on a dirt road. J.Repak Productions Growing up in rural America, my first vehicle–like many of my friends–was a truck. Like many before me, moving to a city meant trad...
Elon Musk Bites The Hand That Fed Him By Bashing California And Democrats
Elon Musk moved to Texas and now appears to embrace the politics of the Republic Party and Texas Governor Greg Abbott Getty In the weeks since Tesla CEO Elon Musk began his gambit to acquire Twitter, ...
Mawson Unveils New Bitcoin Mining Venture in Texas – crypto.news
Mawson, a digital infrastructure provider, has collaborated with one of the largest landowners in Texas and a bitcoin miner to develop a new mining facility in Texas. Plans for a New Bitcoin Mining Pr...
Bitcoin & Energy Merge In Texas: 3 Giant Companies Announce New Mining Facility
The bitcoinization of Texas is one step closer. The Texas Pacific Land Corporation, Mawson Infrastructure, and JAI Energy partnered to build a facility that guarantees “60 megawatts of bitcoin mining ...
Texas Bitcoin Miners Agree to Reduce Power Usage
The Texas Blockchain Council, a trade association representing the Bitcoin mining industry in Texas, announced on Saturday that crypto miners have responded to the conservation notice issued by ERCOT ...
Riot Blockchain’s Texas Expansion Could Use Power To Light 200,000 Homes
In April, Bitcoin mining company Riot Blockchain announced its ambitious plans to expand their operations and light up over 200,000 homes in Corsicana, Texas. Riot Blockchain is one of the biggest min...
Riot Blockchain Wants to Light Up 200,000 Homes in Corsicana, Texas
Back in April, a Colorado-based bitcoin mining company announced they would be expanding its operations to Corsicana, Texas, in efforts to use enough power that could light up to 200,000 homes. As one...
It Already Feels Like August In Texas, At Least Where The Grid’s Concerned
HOUSTON, TEXAS – May 13: Power-lines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas. The Electric … [+] Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which controls approximately 90% of the power in...
Vaccines Could Have Prevented At Least 318,000 Deaths, Study Suggests
Topline A minimum of 318,000 Covid-19 related deaths spanning from January 2021 to April 2022 would have been avoided with readily available vaccines, based on research spearheaded by Brown University...