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As Corpus Christi scrambles to keep from running out of water, a complication arises: A petition to recall Mayor Paulette Guajardo. After last year’s deadly July 4 Hill Country floods, plans to reopen Camp Mystic are tearing friends apart. A confusing and chaotic primary in Central Texas’ Williamson County leads election officials to look back to the future. Plus, how to defend against a parasite…

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Federal immigration agents have arrived at both of Houston’s airports. What are they doing and has it reduced long TSA lines? Two North Texas Democrats who were once allies — Rep. Julie Johnson and Rep. Colin Allred — are battling for the nomination for a congressional seat. Many military dogs are living in sub-standard conditions. We’ll dig into reported problems at kennels at bases…

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As data centers expand across the state, so does the need for energy. More power plants are popping up with Texas at the center of the AI data center boom. The federal government gives its first briefing on a new border wall planned in the Big Bend region. He helped U.S. troops during the war in Afghanistan — now the family of Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal wants to know how he died in ICE custody.

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A secretive project to build a long water barrier in the Rio Grande is revealed as letters go out to landowners to build a Big Bend border wall. We’ll hear what locals are thinking. Look up to the sky: It’s a boom, it’s a flash… and a crash through a roof north of Houston. A UT geosciences professor helps us understand the meteor fragment impact that occurred this past weekend. We’ll also dig…

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Corpus Christi cuts its timeline to a water disaster and the state issues emergency orders to deal with what may be an unprecedented crisis. Today we’re coming to you from the place they call the Sparkling City by the Sea — yet despite its proximity to the water, the region faces the imminent threat of running out of it. We’re at the studios of KEDT, our partners in Corpus Christi. We’ll have the…

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Revelations over César Chávez’s reported history of sexual abuse has led to an immediate response across Texas. We’ll break it down. Texas is home to two of America’s four strategic oil reserves. We’ll dive into why the Gulf Coast was the right place for this storage — beyond its oil and gas infrastructure. We’ll take a trip to Brownsville for the Final Four — in college chess that is.

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Time has run out for what many thought would be a game-changing endorsement in the GOP runoff for a U.S. Senate seat. President Trump has yet to weigh in on the race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton. On the Democratic side of the aforementioned Senate race: What may be a difficult battle ahead for James Talarico, hoping to win more support from fellow Democrats. A federal judge orders an…

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A new report says the Trump administration created military zones on the border and charged people with trespassing. We’ll dive into why the cases are often flawed. Today is the deadline to apply for school vouchers. We’ll look at why students with disabilities are running into hurdles. Bob Odenkirk talks about his new film “Normal,” where he’s the sheriff of a small town hiding a deadly secret.

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Fire warnings, scary high winds, dust storms out west, temps plummeting 30 and 40 degrees in some places… We’ll get the latest on a wild weather weekend. Guilty verdicts in a trial involving the shooting of a police officer outside a North Texas immigration detention center. Could the Prairieland decision be a possible template for future federal prosecutions against antifa protestors?

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A recent change to Texas law now requires local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. Driverless cabs are making headlines in Austin for all the wrong reasons. What this might mean for Waymo’s plans to expand statewide. Politics v.s. pragmatism in West Texas, long known for its oil, now making a sometimes-begrudging shift to solar to meet growing electricity demand.

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