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David Taylor arrested, allegedly ordered ‘armor bearers’ to transport women dosed with Plan B
The Christian Post - Washington D.C.
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August 28, 2025
David E. Taylor | YouTube/Apostle David E Taylor Cult Watch: JMMISelf-styled “apostle,” David E. Taylor was arrested by federal authorities Wednesday along with his organization’s executive director, Michelle Brannon. A press release from the...
Labor Day in Abilene: Top 5 Things To Do Around West Texas
96.5 The Rock - Texas
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August 28, 2025
What exactly is Labor Day, and why do we Americans celebrate it with such passion? For many, it’s one of the few Monday holidays that gives us a relaxing three-day weekend. That means I don’t have to take a PTO day to enjoy some well-deserved time...
RFK Jr says Texas’ MAHA legislation is model for other states to follow
The Center Square
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August 28, 2025
(The Center Square) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Gov. Greg Abbott and roughly 70 state lawmakers at a ceremony in Austin on Wednesday celebrating a bill package they passed to implement health and food...
Make-A-Wish North Texas, local business team up to transform Fort Worth home
CBS Dallas - Texas
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In a quiet Fort Worth neighborhood, 9-year-old Colton Ragsdale opened the door to something he's dreamed of for years — a space built just for him. Colton Ragsdale lives with a sensory processing disorder. While other kids might ask for a trip to...
Golfweek's 2025-26 women's college golf preseason All-America teams
Yahoo Sports - Canada
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August 28, 2025
The 2025-26 college golf season is here, which has our minds looking ahead to the postseason awards. It's never too early to look ahead and project who the best players in the country will be this season. Advertisement Advertisement Highlighting...
College football Week 1 picks against the spread: Texas-Ohio State, LSU-Clemson, Notre Dame-Miami and more
The Athletic
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August 28, 2025
After the soft launch of Week 0, Week 1 of the college football season is bringing the heat. There are games on five days this week, starting Thursday with 17 games and continuing all the way through Labor Day on Monday with Bill Belichick’s North...
If not this year, when? Our Texas Tech football game-by-game forecast
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Texas
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A bigger bandwagon than usual has already started to coalesce around the Texas Tech football team going into the 2025 season. Though the Big 12 discontinued its preseason media poll, the Red Raiders start the season ranked in both major polls for...
For the Children: Critial issues
The Madill Record - Oklahoma
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August 28, 2025
Interim study season at the Oklahoma State Capitol is kicking off this week, and the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) is not only monitoring several, but we are engaging with authors for some of these reviews. Two studies will be held...
FBI Raids North Houston Campus Of Accused Interstate Religious Scam
KURV - Texas
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August 28, 2025
Federal agents are investigating the Houston location of a suspected interstate criminal operation masquerading as a religious group. The call center on the North Freeway is an outlet of the Kingdom of God Global Church, formerly known as Joshua...
Texas investigates Gerber, Plum Organics for heavy metals in baby food
Just Food
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August 28, 2025
Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton has launched an investigation into baby-food manufacturers Gerber and Plum Organics for allegedly misleading consumers about the safety of their products. In a statement issued on 26 August, Paxton’s office...
Today on Texas Standard: Elon Musk looks to build tunnels under Houston
KACU 89.5 - Texas
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Here’s what’s coming up on Texas Standard for Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. Listen on your Texas public radio station, or ask your smart speaker to play Texas Standard. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. Trump-backed...
Texans vs Rams NFL Week 1 picks, predictions, odds
AZ Central - Arizona
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The Houston Texans and Los Angeles Rams play on Sunday, Sept. 7, at the Rams' SoFi Stadium in a game on the NFL Week 1 schedule. Which team will win the NFL Week 1 game? Check out these NFL Week 1 picks and NFL Week 1 predictions for the game,...
Katrina archives: Those who tried to stay in New Orleans join others in Houston
Nola - Louisiana
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HOUSTON — A married couple and their 16-month-old son escaped the rising waters of New Orleans in a pirogue. Two Orthodox rabbis shared their last supplies of kosher food with out-of-town Jews before evacuating the city. A single mother of four...
On Emmett Till’s 70th Death Anniversary, Mississippi Museums Remember Survivors, Witnesses and Activists
Mississippi Free Press
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August 28, 2025
White men kidnapped, mutilated and murdered Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy, on Aug. 28, 1955—a murder that sparked national outrage and helped kick off the Civil Rights Movement. But in the decades after a jury made up of only white men...
Trump Delays Mercury Pollution Rule, Helps Texas Coal Plants
Insurance Journal
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August 28, 2025
For Donna Thomas, smokestacks are a typical sight from her home in Fort Bend County. Since she was a child, she has seen the coal and natural gas-powered W.A. Parish Generating Station puff clouds of haze during the day and light up brightly at...
RFK Jr, who doesn’t have a medical degree, says he can diagnose children just by just looking at them
The Independent
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August 28, 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...
How US gun culture stacks up with the world
Yahoo News
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Minneapolis. Kansas City. Lewiston. Monterey Park. Orlando. Las Vegas. Newtown. Parkland. San Bernardino. Uvalde. Nashville. Louisville. Ubiquitous gun violence in the United States has left few places unscathed over the decades. Still, many...
New immigration detention center opens at El Paso’s Fort Bliss
Spectrum News Austin
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August 28, 2025
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is promising mass deportations, and that will require creating more detention space. A new detention facility, with plans to be the biggest in the country, is now open on a military base in Texas. What You Need...
Texas Legends to host 3rd annual HBCU Classic at Paul Quinn College
Mavs Moneyball - Texas
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August 28, 2025
The Texas Legends will once again host the Thrivent Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Classic at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas this year. The event will take place on November 1st, 2025. It will be the third time the...
Houston County felon guilty of federal firearms violation
The Gilmer Mirror - Texas
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BEAUMONT, Texas – A Crockett felon has pleaded guilty to a federal firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs. Clifford Heniser, 35, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm...