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Fans gather at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, for a campus celebration Sunday, June 30, 2024, for the school's move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference. (AP Photo/Jim Vertuno)

Bye to the Big 12 and hello SEC: Texas and Oklahoma party as conference move now official

By Jim Vertuno and Cliff Brunt - Associated Press

Daniel Perry enters the courtroom at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, May 10, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday, May 16, 2024, recommended a full pardon for Perry, a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool, File)

Court denies request to reconsider Texas governor’s pardon in Black Lives Matter protester’s killing

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Defense Secretary Austin dismisses Putin’s offer of Ukraine cease-fire

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Daniel Perry enters the courtroom at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center, May 10, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Thursday, May 16, 2024, recommended a full pardon for Perry, a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against police violence and racial injustice. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool, File)

Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Baylor student assistant Isaiah Austin prepares to toss a ball in as players run through drills before an NCAA college basketball game against Iowa State in Waco, Texas, Jan. 14, 2015. Former Baylor basketball player Isaiah Austin, whose NBA dreams were thwarted after being diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, was hired Friday, April 19, 2024, as an assistant coach at Florida Atlantic. Austin spent the past two years working for the NBA, and will now coach for the first time. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

FAU hires Isaiah Austin, whose NBA playing plans were derailed, as an assistant coach

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

MotoGP rider Alex Rins (42), of Spain, and Takaaki Nakagami (30), of Japan, steer through a turn during qualifying for the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas motorcycle race at the Circuit of the Americas, Saturday, April 13, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

MotoGP racing for new momentum in America, with hopes of riding an F1-like surge into the future

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Uvalde mayoral candidate Cody Smith gestures toward a voter waiting in a long line outside of the SSGT Willie de Leon Civic Center on Election Day, Nov. 7, 2023, in Uvalde, Texas. On Monday, April 1, 2024, Smith, now mayor of Uvalde, resigned from his position effective immediately, leaving his post empty the same week the city's police chief is expected to step down. (Sam Owens/The San Antonio Express-News via AP, File)

Uvalde mayor resigns citing health issues in wake of controversial report on 2022 school shooting

By Acacia Coronado - Associated Press

William Byron steers through turn ten during the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix NASCAR Cup Series auto race on Sunday, March 24, 2024, at Circuit of the Americas race track in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Darren Abate)

Pole to checkered flag: Byron dominates NASCAR’s first road course race of season, wins at COTA

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Pentagon press briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

Austin to miss NATO meetings with new hospitalization for bladder ailment

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to examine the nomination of Army Lt. Gen. Randy George to be reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff of the Army, Wednesday, July 12, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

Senator blames Biden’s vacation culture for defense secretary’s hospital fiasco

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden’s Potomac fever is spreading, getting more dangerous

By Tom Basile

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks at a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting, Nov. 22, 2023, at the Pentagon in Washington. The secrecy surrounding Austin's hospitalizations due to prostate cancer surgery set off a political firestorm, launched multiple reviews and triggered calls for his ouster. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Austin’s woes mount as Pentagon watchdog to probe undisclosed hospital stay

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Demonstrators gather at the federal courthouse in Austin, Texas, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, June 24, 2022. A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, to let her terminate the pregnancy, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

Austin Police officers close La Crosse Avenue near Mopac Expressway in Austin, Texas late Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. Texas authorities say a daylong series of attacks in Austin has left four people dead and at least three injured, and a man believed to be connected to them and the deaths of two people near San Antonio was taken into custody. (Sara Diggins /Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Suspect in custody after 6 dead and 3 wounded in series of attacks in Texas, authorities say

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FILE - Demonstrators face members of the Austin Police Department as they gather in downtown Austin, Texas, June 4, 2020, to protest the death of George Floyd. A Texas prosecutor whose office oversaw indictments of more than 20 police officers in Austin over tactics used during the 2020 protests that followed Floyd's killing said Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, that he was dropping most of the cases and would ask the Justice Department to investigate instead. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas prosecutor drops most charges against Austin police over tactics used during 2020 protests

By Paul J. Weber and Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Kaitlin Armstrong enters the courtroom to hear the verdict on her murder trial at the Blackwell-Thurman Criminal Justice Center on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, in Austin, Texas. A Texas jury on Thursday convicted a woman of murder in the May 2022 shooting death of rising professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson in a case that led investigators on a 43-day international search for the killer. Armstrong, 35, faces up to life in prison when she is sentenced later Thursday. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP, Pool)

A Texas woman convicted of killing pro cyclist ‘Mo’ Wilson is sentenced to 90 years in prison

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

An attendee holds a poster of Adil Dgoughi at a vigil in Martindale, Texas on Oct. 24, 2021. A Caldwell County jury on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, convicted 67-year-old Terry Duane Turner in the early morning October 2021 shooting death of 31-year-old Adil Dghoughi outside Turner's home in Martindale. (Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Texas man convicted of manslaughter in driveway slaying that killed Moroccan immigrant

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Colorado Rapids midfielder Sam Nicholson, right, collides with Austin FC midfielder Daniel Pereira while pursduing the ball in the first half of an MLS soccer match Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Commerce City, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Andreas Maxso scores and Marko Ilic makes 5 saves in Rapids’ 1-0 win over Austin

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Texas state senators acting as jurors vote on the articles of impeachment against suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of 16 corruption charges at impeachment trial

By Paul J. Weber and Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Witness Drew Wicker, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's former personal assistant, left, testifies during the impeachment trial for Paxton in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Ken Paxton’s defense is set to begin in the Texas attorney general’s impeachment trial

By Paul J. Weber and Jake Bleiberg - Associated Press