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Multiple people were reported injured on Friday after a person driving a semitrailer truck crashed into a Department of Public Safety office in Brenham, Texas, in what officials said may have been an intentional act. It was unclear exactly how many people were injured, and details about the injuries were unknown. The Texas Department of Public Safety said on social media that there were “reports of multiple serious injuries.”A suspect was taken into custody, according to the Department of Public Safety, and Texas Rangers were investigating the crash. Judge Mark Keough of Montgomery County said in a social media post that the driver had been denied a commercial driver’s license on Thursday. Dade Phelan, the Texas House speaker, also said in a post on social media that the driver “intentionally caused injury to innocent Texans.” Mr. Phelan also said the truck was stolen.

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☆ ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +44 min

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. “In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education,” Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. In a 2023 exchange, Dr. Yenor and two associates discussed how to defend Amy Wax, a conservative law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yenor and his allies bristled at the conventions of academic life as overly solicitous toward female and nonwhite students. Samuel Ginn, Claremont donor“The president then told him, ‘Things will change,’” a Claremont fund-raiser wrote to Dr. Yenor and other officials there.

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☆ Child migrants drowned in the Rio Grande after Texas blocked Border Patrol from the area, congressman says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Three migrants drowned after Texas authorities blocked Border Patrol. AdvertisementThree migrants, including two children, died in Texas on Saturday after state authorities blocked Border Patrol from accessing the area. But its attempts to phone the Texas Military Department (TMD), the Texas National Guard, and the Texas Department of Public Safety about the situation were fruitless, he added. 'The Texas governor's policies are cruel, dangerous, and inhumane'David ZalubowskiThe tragedy comes a day after it was alleged that Texas National Guard soldiers had been blocking US Border Patrol agents from accessing parts of the US-Mexico border. AdvertisementThe Department of Homeland Security, the Texas National Guard, and the Texas Military Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

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☆ From black gold to green power: Texas, weirdly, is leading America's clean energy future
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

John DavisDeals like Davis' have made Texas — America's oil capital for more than a century — the top producer of renewable energy in the US. The state has long generated the most wind power and is second only to California as a solar-energy producer. The high-stakes battle for Texas' energy future is a microcosm of how tricky America's green transition is shaping up to be, especially when politics are involved. Slowing down renewable energy could cost Texas in the long term, both economically and socially. The coalition seems to be growing stronger, even as Texas politicians shift further to the right on issues beyond renewable energy.

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☆ Americans are flocking to Mexico City where rent is cheaper and life is more laid-back—for locals, it’s complicated
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Celia Fernandez Tasia Jensen Beatriz Bajuelos Castillo | Celia Fernandez | Tasia Jensen | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

Moran moved to Mexico City in 2019 and is now a permanent resident and lives with Dai, her Mexican boyfriend. "When North Americans come to Mexico, especially to Mexico City, they do not come for survival reasons," Osorno says. Alberto Martinez believes that the Mexican government needs to come up with a way to control rent prices in Mexico City. In 2022, the Mexico City government partnered with Airbnb to promote the city as a global remote working hub. In 2022, Airbnb and Mexico City announced a partnership that caused an uproar among CDMX locals.

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☆ Texas education board members vow to keep PragerU out of public schools after one state official went rogue
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Several Texas education board members condemned PragerU's right-wing curriculum on Tuesday. At a press conference on Tuesday, four State Board of Education members joined together with education advocates to condemn PragerU and their board colleague Julie Pickren. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the video, titled "PragerU Kids is Now in Texas!," Pickren tells PragerU CEO Marissa Streit, "We are definitely ready to welcome PragerU into the great state of Texas." A blurb beside the video also claims that "PragerU is an approved education vendor in the state of Texas." "Let me set the record straight: We have not voted on anything regarding PragerU," State Board of Education member Staci Childs said at the press conference.

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☆ A new Texas law forces vendors to rate sexual content in schoolbooks. They’re not happy about it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Nadia Bidarian | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

But a new Texas law might require her to. The law’s primary author, Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson, said its aim is simple: Get sexually explicit content out of schools. Republican Texas State Rep. Jared Patterson debates HB 900, which would ban sexually explicit materials from library books in schools. Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman/APBut the burden of rating these books falls on book vendors. The law also applies retroactively to books sold to schools in the past, meaning that vendors must issue recalls for “sexually explicit” books still in circulation.

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☆ Meet a single dad with $550,000 in student loans for his 5 children: 'I'm just not going to take the chance on not sending my kids to school'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

He took out parent PLUS loans to fund their education and told Insider he now has $550,000 in debt. Clark was preparing to pay for his five kids' education as part of a two-income family, but he and his wife divorced in 2011. Just a few years later, when the children started going to college, he decided to turn to federal loans to finance their education himself. Parent PLUS loans, the type of loan Clark is paying off, are federal loans that let parents pay for their children's education. Clark says he wanted what was best for his kids, and parent PLUS loans allowed him that opportunity.

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☆ Judge shares date of abortion pill hearing after media outlets criticize him for secrecy
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Spencer Kimball | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A federal judge in Texas publicly disclosed that he scheduled a hearing in a case seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, after media outlets criticized him for attempting to keep the proceedings secret until the last minute. The hearing will take place in Amarillo, Texas. Media outlets filed a letter on Monday urging Kacsmaryk to disclose the date of the hearing immediately. The outlets included NBCUniversal News Group, of which CNBC is a part, The Washington Post, ProPublica, the Texas Press Association and Gannett, among others. They argued that the way the FDA approved mifepristone violated federal law.

☆ Thoma Bravo and Clearlake have posted negative returns for a major endowment, according to exclusive performance data. Middle-market firms have been much stronger.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Rebecca Ungarino | Ben Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The returns show losses from Thoma Bravo and Clearlake, though the funds are new and PE is a long game. Thoma Bravo and Clearlake Capital Group, two private-equity firms that have emerged as notably active investors in recent years, have posted early losses across some of their funds, according to investment returns from a major US endowment. UTIMCO invested $51.7 million in Clearlake's seventh flagship private equity fund, known as Clearlake Capital Partners VII, which closed with some $14 billion of commitments last May. Thoma Bravo declined to comment. Meanwhile, the data show high returns from CapRock Partners, Renovus Capital Partners, Serve Capital Partners, and LFM Capital, PE firms that target middle-market companies.

As a result, political observers say, public school funding is effectively on the ballot Tuesday. “These groups have been demonizing what is being taught in public schools, and that’s the fastest way to erode faith that public schools work,” Rottinghaus said. (Abbott publicly came out in support of private school vouchers two months after winning the primary with 66.5% of the vote.) Greg Abbott in the GOP primary, campaigned in support of private school vouchers. “I will never support vouchers.”Rep. John Bucy III said he will continue to oppose private school vouchers.

☆ On Día de los Muertos, communities honor and remember the Uvalde school shooting children and teachers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Edwin-Head-Shot-Copy.Jpg | Edwin Flores | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Maite was one of the 19 children who were killed, along with two teachers, in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May. This year, the faces of the 19 children who died in Uvalde were at the top of altars throughout the country. In the corner, next to two desks and a chalkboard, is a pecan tree, which represents Robb Elementary School. In Houston, the nonprofit arts and culture group Multicultural Education and Counseling Through the Arts (MECA) honored the 21 Uvalde victims, including murals with the children's names. The Marcha de los Niños, or March of the Children, will take place in several cities in a special tribute to the Uvalde victims.

☆ Newly released Uvalde video shows officers discussing need to confront gunman, concerns about being shot
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Newly released body camera video shows Texas law enforcement at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre discussing the need to confront the gunman, but expressing concerns about being shot. I wonder if we can get in there ... and maybe open that door," a trooper says in the video. People mourn at a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 28, 2022. During Thursday's public meeting in Austin, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Col. Steven McCraw said that he does not believe the agency failed the community. Someone is heard in the video saying how there have been no attempts to negotiate with the gunman.

☆ Relatives of Uvalde victims call on 'disgraced' Texas public safety director to resign
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Brendan O'Brien | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Oct 27 (Reuters) - Relatives of children killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted the Texas public safety director on Thursday and demanded he resign over the failure of his agency's troopers to confront the gunman quickly and possibly save lives. "You have disgraced our state," Cross said at a podium as he looked directly at McCraw during a meeting of the Public Safety Commission in Austin. "Steve, the time is now: If you are a man of your word, you will resign." Even so, McCraw said he would only resign if an internal investigation finds that his agency failed the community of Uvalde. In July, the Texas legislature released a report blaming the response on "systemic failures" and poor leadership.

☆ I’ve been following a woman around the internet. Turns out she was created by artificial intelligence.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Evan Ratliff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +31 min

Even in their first efforts, the GAN images were quickly on par with those made by any other, less intelligent software. You can find the results on the Generated Photos site, where you can filter by ethnicity, age, sex, eye color, and other attributes. Generated Photos' GANs tend to match conventional beauty standards, a product of the models that have been fed to the software. I'm not sure anyone would be surprised to find fake images accompanying testimonials on an Estonian bitcoin exchange or an online CBD seller. Are they real people deploying fake images, or fake people deploying fake images?

☆ Colleges don't want you to know that 'early decision' is actually a rigged game
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-02 | by ( James S. Murphy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Through the power of "early decision," which it first started offering for the freshman class of 2017. At many colleges and universities, the acceptance rate for early decision is more than double that of regular decision. But for many disadvantaged students, early decision is more of a nightmare — one more rigged step in a college-admissions process that is already rigged against them. (The school also admitted another 34% or more of its entering class through early action, a non-binding cousin of early decision.) That won't erase the inherently discriminatory aspects of early decision, but it would make it a little fairer.

☆ A Texas woman is being charged with murder after police say she performed a 'self-induced' abortion
▼ + stars: | 2022-04-09 | by ( Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

KVEO reported that Texas police arrested a 26-year-old woman for allegedly performing a self-induced abortion. Abortion clinics in Texas have tried to block the law in court, arguing it would prohibit care for "at least 85% of Texas abortion patients." The Starr County Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment asking for more information on the incident. "This is a developing story and we don't yet know all the details surrounding this tragic event," Gonzalez told Texas Public Radio. When SB 8 was introduced, abortion clinics in states neighboring Texas told Insider they were flooded with requests for reproductive healthcare from people who could no longer acquire it in Texas.

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