The Flash Briefing is a daily news update every weekday morning from Todd Jeffries.

• Save Austin Now, the group behind a charter petition that would force regular external audits onto the City of Austin, believes it has enough signatures to get the petition on the November ballot
• The Texas Education Agency has launched a new educator misconduct dashboard as a way to track misconduct reports, investigations, disciplinary actions and placements on the state's Do Not Hire registry
• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared before the House Appropriations subcommittee to testify about the proposed $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund"

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• Georgetown police are investigating 20 vehicle burglaries that occurred over the weekend that resulted in the theft of seven firearms
• Jury selection is underway in the murder case against Karmelo Anthony, the teen accused of stabbing Austin Metcalf last year at a Frisco track meet
• The second phase of the Waller Creek District Project, a 13-acre park between 4th Street and Lady Bird Lake, is set to open by the end of the week

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• Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico made a stop in Leander yesterday as he tries to lure voters over to his side in the race against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
• A rally was held at the Texas capitol over the weekend to demand that Governor Greg Abbott end his push for state immigration enforcement
• Manor police have been cracking down on drunk drivers, and officials say they took a handful of underage drinkers off the road over the weekend

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• U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a preliminary agreement to extend the ceasefire and open talks on the future of Iran's nuclear program, a move that's raising real hopes this three-month conflict could finally be nearing resolution
• The Texas Education Agency has rejected Austin ISD's proposal to partner with the Texas Council for International Studies to help improve academic performance at three perpetually failing middle schools
• A family that lost three children in an apartment fire in southeast Austin back in March held a press conference outside Austin City Hall demanding answers from the city

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• The Texas Water Development Board is moving ahead with their 2027 draft of a state water plan focused on meeting the growing demand for water over the next 50 years
• A proposal from Austin Mayor Kirk Watson to scale back the city's commitment to building highway caps over I-35 has been withdrawn after it became clear it lacked enough council support to pass
• The Department of Homeland Security is warning that the shutdown earlier in the year has hampered its readiness for the FIFA World Cup

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• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was endorsed by President Trump, has defeated incumbent John Cornyn in the state's Republican Senate primary runoff
• Texas State Senator Mayes Middleton has defeated former U.S. House Rep Chip Roy in the Republican runoff election for Texas Attorney General
• Recent weather events have prompted the Lower Colorado River Authority to open up a floodgate at Starcke Dam

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• The U.S. Central Command said it carried out “self-defense strikes" in southern Iran yesterday, targeting Iranian missile launch sites and ships
• Two notable Republican runoff elections will wrap up today between John Cornyn & Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate and Chip Roy & Mayes Middleton for Texas Attorney General
• New details reveal that the three teens charged in last weekend's shooting spree in south Austin also broke into a pawn shop with a sledgehammer and stole a variety of items

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• One of the teens charged in the shooting spree in south Austin over the weekend could possibly be released out of jail on house arrest
• President Trump has announced an additional 5,000 troops will be sent to Poland
• The nursing license of Camp Mystic's co-director Mary Liz Eastland has been suspended by the Texas State Board of Nursing

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• The U.S. government has indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro on charges of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, destruction of an aircraft, and murder, stemming from the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft
• Austin cyclists gathered this week for the "Ride of Silence", an annual event hosted by the Austin Ghost Bike Project to honor the lives of people who have been hurt or killed on local roadways while calling for improvements to cyclist safety
• The Austin City Council will vote today on annexing a four square-mile piece of land in east Austin that would be used for new infrastructure

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• The Trump-backed U.S. House candidate Ed Gallrein has defeated incumbent Thomas Massie in the Republican primary in Kentucky
• Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing questions from Congress for the first time since taking the reins at the Justice Department, defending a nearly $1.776 billion fund to pay allies of the president who believe they were targeted politically

• A decline in public school enrollment is predicted to be bigger than expected there are now suggestions that Texas public schools could lose as many as 100-thousand students by the year 2030

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