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Texas Monthly – How Texas Republicans plan to keep cracking down on abortion
A flurry of bills aims to restrict the flow of abortion pills into the state and abortion seekers traveling out of the state. Read: Read More
KTSM News – Judge schedules more hearings in Walmart shooting case
EL PASO, Texas (EL PASO MATTERS) — Hearings into claims of prosecutorial misconduct in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting case will resume in April, according to orders this week from 409th District…
KTSM News – Rough Edge EDC: C. Risner Cutlery combines tradition with modern take
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – “A hobby with friends, not a business with customers.” Ohio-based knife retailer C. Risner Cutlery prominently displays those words on its website. Over the past several months,…
The Border Chronicle – Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 21
Ask an Expert: Austin Kocher As promised, immigration expert Austin Kocher has answers for some of your most confounding immigration questions. We sent Austin your questions and he chose three of them…
El Paso Matters – Reflecting 2-year designation anniversary of Castner Range National Monument
By Natasha Norman and Janae’ Reneaud Field As we draw closer to the two-year anniversary of the Castner Range National Monument (CRNM) designation in El Paso, Texas, we find ourselves reflecting on…
Tech Crunch – Wayve CEO shares his key ingredients for scaling autonomous driving tech
Wayve co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall sees promise in bringing his autonomous vehicle startup’s tech to market. That is, if Wayve sticks to its strategy of ensuring its automated driving software is…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft is exploring a way to credit contributors to AI training data
Microsoft is launching a research project to estimate the influence of specific training examples on the text, images, and other types of media that generative AI models create. That’s per a job…
Texas Monthly – Texas prison staff falsified temperatures records, investigation finds
Two-thirds of the state’s roughly 100 jails and prisons in Texas are not fully air conditioned in inmate housing areas. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Paxton impeachment cost state $5.1 million, auditor report finds
The new finding is about 20% higher than previous estimates of the known cost of the effort to remove Paxton from office. Read: Read More