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Sprinklers water rows of crops in an agricultural field. | Image by Elibet Valencia Muñoz/Unsplash. Texas water planners project the state’s population will climb from 34.2 million in 2030 to 52.3 million in 2080. Under drought-of-record conditions, they project existing water supplies will fall from about 15.5 million to 14 million acre-feet a year over the same period.

Youth Prevention Champions promote healthy, drug-free choices in an ONDCP public service announcement that Major League Baseball will help amplify during the 2026 postseason. | Image via Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Suspect Michael Fouse Image by Denton ScannerFacebook Richardson police arrested Berkner High School teacher Michael Ralph Fouse, 41, on August 28 for allegedly soliciting a minor online. Police charged him with online solicitation of a minor, which they identified as a third-degree felony. Detectives executed an arrest warrant and a search warrant at Fouse’s Richardson home. Officers took him into custody without incident, police said.

A Texas State University banner hangs outside a campus building in San Marcos. | Image by University of College/Shutterstock. U.S. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) is demanding that Texas State University explain why the taxpayer-funded school plans to continue H-1B sponsorship for an existing employee in a Public Relations Specialist position and disclose how broadly it uses the foreign-worker program. Rep.

Texas Law book and judge’s gavel and sounding block Image by Canva Several new Texas laws will take effect on September 1, bringing new requirements for solar companies and salespeople, expanding consumer rights to repair certain electronics, and allowing qualifying gold and silver bullion to be used as legal tender. The laws approved during the 2025 legislative session address a range of issues, from consumer protections to manufactured housing and volunteer firefighters.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates’ air force intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters Monday, the Defense Ministry said, an attack that comes after the United States and Iran exchanged fire on the weekend, the first significant military action in a month. During the lull in fighting, the U.S. has been ratcheting up economic pressure on Iran with the hope of forcing concessions out of Tehran, including reopening the vital Strait of Hormuz to shipping.

Flames and heavy smoke rise from a fire in the 200 block of Burns Drive in Sand Branch on August 29, 2026. | Image via Dallas County Sheriff’s Office/Facebook. A 10-acre fire burned for more than a day after igniting August 29 in Sand Branch, forcing evacuations and requiring firefighters to haul water into an unincorporated Dallas County community with no fire hydrants.

Texas utility regulators approved two Oncor Electric Delivery projects Friday, authorizing 424.2 miles of new 765-kilovolt transmission lines with combined estimated costs of nearly $3.95 billion after Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a landowner advocacy group urged the state to wait. The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved both applications without a recorded dissent at its meeting.

Oil barrels appear in front of the flags of the United States and Venezuela in an illustration of energy relations between the two countries. | Image by MMaria ajmal/Shutterstock. President Donald Trump announced a U.S.-Venezuela oil agreement that he said gives the United States majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven reserves. Trump called it “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY” in a Friday Truth Social post.

Dutch drug monitors found very high levels of PMMA in a two-color ecstasy pill shaped like President Donald Trump. | Image by Trimbos Institute/press release. Dutch officials issued a nationwide drug warning after testing ecstasy pills molded to resemble President Donald Trump and finding very high amounts of a substance that can cause fatal overheating.