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  • In this photo provided by the Flower Mound, Texas, Fire Department, Flower Mound firefighters respond to a fire in the Texas Panhandle, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. A rapidly widening Texas wildfire doubled in size Tuesday and prompted evacuation orders in at least one small town. (Flower Mound Fire Department via AP)Environment

    Texas Panhandle wildfire hits nearly 800 square miles, second-largest in state history, shutting down nuclear weapons facility

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • CONWAY, SC – NOVEMBER 17: The Texas A&M Aggies logo on a pair of shorts during the first round game of the Myrtle Beach Invitational college basketball game against the Murray State Racers at the HTC Center on November 17, 2022 in Conway, South Carolina. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) *** Local Caption ***Politics

    Texas A&M pays $1 million to Black journalism professor who was only briefly on staff, saying ‘mistakes were made during the hiring process’

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • CONWAY, SC – NOVEMBER 18: The Texas A&M Aggies logo on a pair of shorts during a second round game of the Myrtle Beach Invitational college basketball game against the Colorado Buffaloes at HTC Center on November 18, 2022 in Conway, South Carolina. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)Politics

    Texas A&M University president resigns after hiring of a Black journalist devolves into ‘anti-woke hysteria’

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • American professor and solid-state physicist, John Goodenough, one of three winners of the Nobel Chemistry Prize, attends a press conference at The Royal Society in London on October 9, 2019. – Three researchers won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for the development of lithium-ion batteries, paving the way for smartphones and a fossil fuel-free society. John Goodenough of the United States — at 97 the oldest person to be awarded a Nobel prize — Britain’s Stanley Whittingham, and Japan’s Akira Yoshino will share the nine million Swedish kronor (about $914,000 or 833,000 euros) prize equally, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    John Goodenough, co-creator of the lithium battery that ushered in the mobile phone and electric car revolutions, dies at 100

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Nate JonesPolitics

    The businessman at the center of the Texas AG scandal is a millennial real estate developer from Austin

    By Jake Bleiberg, Paul J. Weber, and others
  • BARCELONA, SPAIN – MAY 13: Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder of energy drink company Red Bull and owner of the Red Bull Formula One racing team, during the F1 Grand Prix of Spain on May 13, 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Vincent Mignott ATPImages/Getty Images)Leadership

    Red Bull’s Dietrich Mateschitz, the Austrian billionaire who transformed F1, soccer, and energy drinks, dies at 78

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, steers through a turn during the first practice session for the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto raceLifestyle

    Formula One signs extension deal with ESPN, calls sports broadcaster ‘first to believe’ in America’s now booming interest

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • US far-right radio show Alex Jones speaks to supporters of US President Donald Trump as they demonstrate in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2020, to protest the 2020 election. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)Politics

    Alex Jones ordered to pay $49.3 million total over Sandy Hook lies

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Alex Jones, host of Infowars.Politics

    Alex Jones ordered to pay Sandy Hook parents more than $4 million for claiming the deadliest U.S. school shooting was a hoax

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Alex Jones arrives at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, with a piece of tape over his mouth that reads “save the 1st.” He shook hands with his lawyer, Andino Reynal. An attorney for the parents of one of the children who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting told jurors that Jones repeatedly “lied and attacked the parents of murdered children” when he told his Infowars audience that the 2012 attack was a hoax. Attorney Mark Bankston said during his opening statement to determine damages against Jones that Jones created a “massive campaign of lies” and recruited “wild extremists from the fringes of the internet … who were as cruel as Mr. Jones wanted them to be” to the victims’ families. Jones later blasted the case, calling it a “show trial” and an assault on the First Amendment. (Briana Sanchez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool)Politics

    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ media company files for bankruptcy amid trial

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Uvalde elementary school shootingPolitics

    Texas elementary school shooting leaves 19 children and 2 teachers dead

    By Acacia Coronado, Jim Vertuno, and others
  • AUSTIN, TX – JUNE 08: Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference where he signed Senate Bills 2 and 3 at the Capitol on June 8, 2021 in Austin, Texas. Governor Abbott signed the bills into law to reform the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and weatherize and improve the reliability of the state’s power grid. The bill signing comes months after a disastrous February winter storm that caused widespread power outages and left dozens of Texans dead. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)Politics

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott prohibits private companies from mandating COVID vaccines for employees

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press
  • Vanilla IceArts & Entertainment

    Vanilla Ice’s Texas concert plans come to a halt over coronavirus concerns

    By Jim Vertuno and The Associated Press