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Attorney backs Texas school district over Biden administration's Title IX changes: 'We expect to win'

An attorney is confident her client’s lawsuit against the Biden administration will strike down its new Title IX changes as unconstitutional. “We want and we expect to win the lawsuit and have these rules, this regulation be determined to be unconstitutional because it is unconstitutional,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) President and CEO Kristen Waggoner told Fox News Digital. Alliance Defending …

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Texas state senator criticizes Abbott as 'piece of s–t' for not publicly mentioning Uvalde shooting

A Texas state senator called out Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for failing to publicly acknowledge the two-year anniversary of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Friday was the two-year anniversary since the shooting at Robb Elementary School, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. The shooting was not mentioned in the governor’s social …

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Residents in Texas, Oklahoma seek shelter as tornado damages homes, overturns trucks

A tornado touched down and crossed a Texas interstate, causing damage to homes and overturning vehicles as severe storms moved through Texas and Oklahoma on Saturday night. Forecasters issued tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings for parts of Texas and Oklahoma, as some heat records were broken in South Texas and residents received warnings of triple-digit temperatures over the holiday weekend. …

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Texas teen honors late dad with tearjerking graduation speech hours after his burial: Doing this 'for him'

A Texas high school valedictorian who delivered a tearjerking speech against the backdrop of burying his father earlier that morning said he summoned the strength to keep going as he looked out over the crowd and saw how his words had touched everyone. “I didn’t know if I even had the strength to do it. I was up there talking …

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Wife of rodeo star Spencer Wright shares tragic update on three-year-old son Levi after river accident

Kallie Wright, wife of rodeo star Spencer Wright, shared a heartbreaking update on their three-year-old son, Levi, who is in critical condition after an accident in the Utah River. Levi nearly drowned and was feared brain-dead after he fell off a toy tractor into the river on Tuesday. Though he woke up briefly on Friday, the boy’s mother said on …

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Kangaroos on the loose in Texas as police respond to amusing call

A police department in Texas had quite a surprising call last week: Kangaroos were on the loose. “On Sunday morning, officers were sent to a report of a KANGAROO hopping down Fuller Springs Drive,” the Lufkin Police Department wrote in a Facebook post on May 22. Lufkin is a small city in eastern Texas. The department also attached a video …

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Despite growing concerns over bird flu, many US dairy workers have not received protective equipment

Many U.S. dairy farms have not yet increased health protections against bird flu for employees during an outbreak in cows, according to workers, activists and farmers, worrying health experts about the risk for more human infections of a virus with pandemic potential. Epidemiologists are concerned the virus could potentially spread and cause serious illnesses as farmers downplay the risk to …

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Rodeo star Spencer Wright's 3-year-old son hospitalized after falling into Utah River on toy tractor

The 3-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright and his wife, Kallie, is in critical condition after the boy drove into the Utah River on his toy tractor. Wright family friend Mindy Clark, who has been posting updates via social media and spoke to KUTV, said the boy’s mother ran inside the family’s Beaver County home for just a moment …

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Laughlin Air Force Base breached by Mexican national who ran from Border Patrol agents: CBP

A Mexican national jumped a fence, breaching Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas on Thursday, officials confirmed. Del Rio Border Patrol agents attempted to conduct a traffic stop early Thursday morning on Highway 90 East, when a 17-year-old male ran from the vehicle and breached the base, a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital. …

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Uvalde shooting victims' families reach $2M settlement with city, file new $500M case against Texas officials

The families of 19 victims of the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting filed a $500 million lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against 91 Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers and the local school district, deeming their response to the 2022 massacre the “single greatest failure of law enforcement to confront an active shooter in American history.” The lawsuit comes …

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