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Texas' head coach Chris Beard, left, meets with Tyrese Hunter (4) and Marcus Carr (5) at the bench during the first half of the team's NCAA college basketball game against Illinois in the Jimmy V Classic, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in New York. Texas fired basketball coach Chris Beard on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, while he faces a felony domestic family violence charge stemming from a Dec. 12 incident involving his fiancée. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) **FILE**

Texas fires coach Chris Beard amid felony domestic violence charge

By Jim Vertuno - Associated Press

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen of the Netherlands powers his car during the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, central Japan, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Toru Hanai, Pool)

Formula One is back in the U.S. this weekend. What’s behind the racing circuit’s sudden success?

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin talks during the press conference with Minister of Defence of Latvia Artis Pabriks during the press conference in Riga, Latvia, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)

Goodbye, Fort Hood: Austin approves plan to nix Confederate names from U.S. military bases

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Armed Forces of Denmark, a view the disturbance in the water above the gas leak, in the Baltic Sea, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. Following the suspected sabotage this week of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines that carry Russian natural gas to Europe, there were two leaks off Sweden, including a large one above North Stream 1, and a smaller one above North Stream 2. (Rune Dyrholm/Armed Forces of Denmark via AP)

Pentagon chief: Too soon to determine responsibility for Nord Stream pipeline rupture

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Evidence tape is seen with a Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit in an examination room, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, in Austin, Texas. After a Texas law banning abortions past about six weeks, even in cases of rape or incest, went into effect a year ago, Gov. Greg Abbott said the state would strive to &quot;eliminate all rapists from the streets.&quot; (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas vow to ‘eliminate all rapists’ rings hollow at clinics

By Paul J. Weber and Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

Classroom, desks, chalkboard. (Photo credit: miya227 via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Texas A&M slapped with reverse discrimination lawsuit by White professor

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Andrew K. Fox filed a lawsuit on Aug. 18, 2022, against the city of Austin and the Austin fire chief, claiming he was dismissed from his post as volunteer fire chaplain for his views on male-born athletes in female sports. (Photo courtesy Alliance Defending Freedom.)

Fire chaplain accuses Austin of axing him after he posted opposition to transgender athletes on blog

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Alex Jones talks to media during a midday break during the trial at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. 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&quot; 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)

Alex Jones’ media company files for bankruptcy amid trial

By Jim Vertuno

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Kaitlin Marie Armstrong. The U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday, June 30, 2022, that Armstrong who is suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin, Texas, home, has been arrested in Costa Rica. The marshals service said Armstrong will be deported and returned to the U.S. where she faces a murder charge.(U.S. Marshals Service via AP, File)

U.S. Marshals: Texas woman accused in cyclist death arrested in Costa Rica

By Ken Miller - Associated Press

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw uses maps and graphics to present a timeline of the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, during a hearing, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Two teachers and 19 students were killed. (Sara Diggins/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Top Texas cop: Uvalde police response was ‘abject failure’

By Jim Vertuno and Jake Bleiberg - Associated Press

People visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on June 2, 2022, to pay their respects to the victims killed in a school shooting. A legislative committee investigating the deadly shooting at the Texas elementary school is set to hear more testimony from law enforcement officers on Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Police in Uvalde had rifles earlier than known, report shows

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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a plenary session at the 19th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, Asia's annual defense and security forum, in Singapore, Saturday, June 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Danial Hakim)

Austin condemns Beijing’s provocations over Taiwan

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, early Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a report published Monday night in Politico. It's unclear if the draft represents the court's final word on the matter. The Associated Press could not immediately confirm the authenticity of the draft Politico posted, which if verified marks a shocking revelation of the high court's secretive deliberation process, particularly before a case is formally decided. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates | Abortion rights protests held around nation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Sept. 30, 2014, file pool photo, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis, Democratic Gubernatorial candidate, responds to a question during the final gubernatorial debate in a KERA-TV studio in Dallas. Davis, a state senator, is scheduled to cast her ballot Monday, Oct. 20, in Fort Worth. Her television ads that magnified Abbott's use of a wheelchair and a 1990s rape lawsuit have drawn national attention and put her on the defensive from critics, but Davis hasn't backed down while trying to become the first Democrat in the governor's mansion since Ann Richards. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Andy Jacobsohn, Pool)

Wendy Davis sues over Texas abortion law

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A damaged vehicle sits in front of a food truck following a collision in Austin, Texas on Friday, April 8, 2022. Authorities say multiple people were injured in the &quot;major collision” involving pedestrians and two vehicles, one of which hit the food truck. (AP Photo/Acacia Coronado)

Vehicle collides with food truck in Austin, Texas; 11 hurt

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the &quot;Cyber Rodeo&quot; grand opening celebration for the new $1.1 billion Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, on Thursday April 7, 2022. Musk says the company will build an electric vehicle dedicated for use as a robotaxi. Musk didn’t give details of the robotaxi other than to say it will "look quite futuristic." (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP) **FILE**

Musk says Tesla will build vehicle designed to be a robotaxi

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People walk by an apartment building destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces in Borodyanka, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian troops of gruesome atrocities in Ukraine and told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that those responsible should immediately be brought up on war crimes charges in front of a tribunal like the one set up at Nuremberg after World War II.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine battles, fallout far from over, Pentagon brass warn

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2023 defense budget, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

‘You’re embarrassed by your country’: Pentagon’s Austin, Rep. Gaetz in fiery hearing clash

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Alex Jones, "Infowars" host, speaks outside of the Dirksen building of Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 5, 2018. Jones defied a Connecticut judge's order to show up for a deposition in Texas, Thursday, March 24, 2022, in a case brought by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting who sued Jones for calling the massacre a hoax, according to the families' lawyer. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Alex Jones fails to show again at Sandy Hook suit deposition

By Dave Collins - Associated Press

SXSW Interactive and Film Festival attendees crowd the Austin Convention Center in 2013, in Austin, Texas. Four people were shot and wounded in downtown Austin, Texas, early Sunday as the city hosts the annual South by Southwest festival, police said. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Shooting wounds 4 at SXSW festival in Austin

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