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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1236884/tokyo-bou Tokyo-Bound American Airlines Flight Diverts After Snag, Lands In Texas After 12 Hours #AmericanAirlines #NewYorkTokyoAmericanAirlinesFlight #NewYorkTokyoAmericanAirlinesFlight167 #NewYorkTokyoFlightNews #news #Texas #Tokyo #TokyoNews #東京 #東京都 New Delhi: A Tokyo-bound American Airlines flight from New York City was forced to make a U-turn after it encountered a “maintenance issue”. Flight 167 departed from John F Kennedy International Airport…

Tokyo-Bound American Airlines Flight Diverts After Snag, Lands In Texas After 12 Hours
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Over the past several years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Many of these technology acquisitions have been made under the auspices of Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, an $11 billion program that has supercharged the state’s decades-long border militarization.

The powerful and well-funded state police agency has not just expanded its existing surveillance capabilities, which include a fleet of spy planes, unmanned drones, and a network of wildlife game cameras that are deployed all across the borderlands of Texas, but it also is increasingly using AI-powered software to perform intelligence gathering.

DPS records obtained and reviewed by the Texas Observer in recent months shed new light on the scope of the state police’s surveillance toolbox. The agency has spent millions acquiring an array of powerful—and controversial—artificial intelligence software tools that can mine billions of images to provide facial recognition, track vehicle locations from automatic license plate readers, monitor phone conversations of inmates in Texas prisons and jails, break into and search for data evidence from seized cell phones and computers, and even track cell phones without a warrant."

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The Texas Observer · Texas’ AI-Powered Surveillance Arsenal Has Ballooned. Proposed Laws Provide Few Guardrails.Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.
#USA#Texas#AI
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Houston Public Media

Five Democratic state lawmakers from Houston are urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special election for the vacancy in Texas' 18th Congressional District after the Republican governor did not put the seat on the May 3 ballot.

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#Houston#Local#National
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Texas Observer

“We’re seeing quite a few suicides of people that are struggling economically right now. Things are just hard. It’s a hard place to live.”

Our top story: Rural Texas is facing a mental health crisis. Here's how one town found ways to address the emergency ... texasobserver.org/mental-healt

The Texas Observer · 'This Town Has Nothing': Rural Texas' Mental Healthcare CrisisAgainst long odds, Sweetwater’s public hospital recruited counselors to help address a wave of mental health crises in rural Texas—yet struggles continue.
#MentalHealth#health#healthcare
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Drought Center

Over the past week, southern Texas experienced devastating storms that caused life-endangering floods and at least six deaths. The area received record-breaking rainfall of 5 to 15 inches, according to radar estimates.

Significant drought improvements followed, with two-category improvements in the southernmost part of the state. However, an area of central Texas also saw degradation.

USDM Hot Topic April 3, 2025: Texas. Abnormal dryness or drought coverage in Texas decreased from 86.15% to 85.23%. Moderate drought or worse receded from 69.66% to 67.65%. Severe drought or worse dipped from 47.72% to 45.93%. Extreme drought or worse increased slightly from 28.69% to 28.87%. Exceptional drought remained at 13.76%.
#drought#drought2025#Texas
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Houston Public Media

The Justice Department quietly decided in the final weeks of the Biden administration not to prosecute Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively ending the corruption investigation against him, The Associated Press has learned.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

#National#News#Politics
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Rasta

You can't make this up. #TedCruz #RafaelEdwardCruz unqualified to be a smart Canadian, we gave him to the USA and they embraced him as one of their own. I heard the President say that Rafael Edward 's wife was very ugly, he's such a waste of skin.

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Senator Rafael Edward Cruz, who used the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names an pronouns.
#USPoli and the smartest man in #Texas
#TedCruz

a post showing Ted Cruz in an article by San Antonio express-News Senator Rafael Edward Cruz, who used the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names an pronouns.
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Texas Observer

New today: “This will strip schools of the ability to foster inclusive environments under the guise of protecting parents. But let’s ask which parents, because they sure aren’t the ones with LGBTQ+ kids, children of color, or students who rely on schools as safe spaces.”
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#LGBTQIA+ #politics #USpol #news #Texas #TXlege #schools #censorship

The Texas Observer · 'It’s About Censorship, Erasure, and Control': the GOP's Push for Parental RightsIt’s part of a new right-wing project to control public schools.
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