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AUSTIN, Texas—Even as a cold night started to settle outside Tesla ‘s headquarters here on Saturday, a group of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs had no plans to leave until Elon Musk, the man they named their currency after, accepted a 12,000-pound sculpture of a Mr. Musk-headed goat riding a rocket. It is the latest stunt in the cryptocurrency space, where jokes and memes about digital currencies regularly flood social media. But a 6-ton sculpture as a marketing gimmick isn’t so common.

☆ Accused Colorado Springs Shooter Makes First Court Appearance
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Alicia A. Caldwell | Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The 22-year-old suspect accused of killing five people and injuring 19 at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs made a brief first appearance in court via video Wednesday, appearing slumped in a chair with facial bruises. Lawyers for Anderson Lee Aldrich , who identifies as nonbinary and uses the pronoun they according to a filing by their attorney, waived a reading of the charges against them during the five-minute hearing. Police said earlier this week that Mx. Aldrich, their preferred title, was arrested on five counts of first-degree murder and hate-crimes charges.

The Club Q nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo., held a drag show before the fatal mass shooting on Saturday night. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—More than 48 hours after a shooting that left five people dead and 19 wounded at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, authorities are continuing to search for evidence on what may have motivated suspect Anderson Lee Aldrich . Mr. Aldrich, 22 years old, threatened to harm members of his family in an incident last year that led authorities to seize weapons from him but didn’t result in charges, according to law enforcement.

☆ A Century Later, Historians Revisit a Texas Massacre
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

On Jan. 28, 1918, 15 Mexican boys and men from a small Texas border town were rousted in the middle of the night, led to a bluff and shot to death at close range. The Texas Rangers, local ranchers and soldiers who rounded up the group said they went to question the residents of Porvenir, a ranching and farming community on the far southwestern edge of the state, because they believed they were involved in an earlier raid on nearby Brite Ranch. They claimed the 15 had died in a shootout.

☆ One U.S. Customs Agent Killed, Two Wounded in Shooting off Coast of Puerto Rico
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The wounded CBP Marine Interdiction agents were airlifted to the Puerto Rico Trauma Center. One U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was killed and two were wounded Thursday off the coast of Puerto Rico in a shootout with people on a suspected smuggling vessel. A person aboard the vessel also died as a result of the shooting, said Jeffrey Quiñones , a spokesperson for CBP. Another person was arrested, the agency said.

☆ Mississippi Faces EPA Probe of Jackson Water Supply Cutoff
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Adolfo Flores | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday said it has launched an investigation into whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the mostly Black city of Jackson by not funding improvements to its crumbling water system. The investigation is in response to a complaint filed with the EPA against the Mississippi Department of Health and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality by the NAACP on behalf of nine Jackson residents who went without running water late this summer.

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