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  • Texas Offers Land for Use for Trump Deportations

    Trump has said he plans to declare a national emergency on his first day in office, citing the border crisis. In an effort to aid the administration, Texas offered state property in Starr County, where more than 1,400 acres could be used to construct deportation facilities and staging areas.

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  • Even Blue States Are Embracing a Tougher Approach to Crime

    A nationwide shift toward more conservative policies continues in 3 more states. The outcomes of seven ballot measures in Arizona, California and Colorado reflect the stricter approach to crime that’s been seen across much of the country recently.

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  • Despite Back-to-Back Deals on Water from Mexico, Relief for South Texas Farmers Is Far from Certain

    Texas agreed to take 120,000 acre-feet of water from Mexico this month, only after the U.S. and Mexico agreed to an updated treaty.

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  • New York City to End Controversial Migrant Debit Card Program

    New York City is ending its controversial program that gave newly arriving migrants debit cards pre-loaded with money to pay for food, baby supplies and other necessities.

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  • Mexico Is Offering Water to South Texas. But There’s a Catch Farmers Aren’t Happy About.

    Farmers say they want the water, but not if it goes against the allotment they need for the spring planting season.

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  • U. of California Faces Lawsuit for Not Hiring Illegal Aliens

    UC’s Board of Regents decided by a vote in January to suspend for one year the implementation of its policy that allowed the hiring of illegal aliens. Now, the university faces a lawsuit for not offering jobs to illegal aliens.

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  • Ohio Is Home to About 50 White Extremist Groups, but the State’s Social and Political Landscape Is Undergoing Rapid Racial Change

    Rapidly changing social conditions in Ohio have played a significant role in the growth of extremism. Between 1990 and 2019, manufacturing jobs shrank from 21.7% of all employment in the state to 12.5%, mostly affecting white men. For many of these alienated men, extremist ideologies offer easy answers to complex questions that involve their sense of disenfranchisement.

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  • Reducing Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in Virginia

    As the climate changes and sea levels rise, there is concern that sinking coastlines could exacerbate risks to infrastructure, as well as human and environmental health in coastal communities. The Virginia Coastal Plain is one of the fastest-sinking regions on the East Coast. 

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  • Counties Call for Rural Groundwater Management Despite Some Voters Rejecting It

    Four rural Arizona county supervisors are asking for more regulation when it comes to pumping rural groundwater, something that their constituents denied them in 2022.

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  • What You Need to Know About the Venezuelan Gang That Texas Is Targeting

    Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the Venezuelan gang a foreign terrorist organization and asked the Department of Public Safety to create a strike team targeting them.

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  • Planning for Impacts of Floods and Clouds on Power

    On the heels of a Northeastern rainstorm that flooded towns on Long Island and claimed at least two lives in Connecticut, teams of scientists, engineers, and representatives of local power and transportation utilities met to discuss the increasing frequency of severe weather and its impacts on crucial infrastructure.

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  • Election Experts Cautious as Abbott Touts Voter Roll Purge

    Federal and state law already required voter roll maintenance. Experts warn the governor’s framing of this routine process could be used to undermine trust in elections.

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  • Texas Election Officials Are Dealing with a Flood of Challenges to Voter Registrations

    Conservative groups and individual activists have targeted tens of thousands of Texans over their eligibility. But state and federal protections are in place.

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  • Election Deniers Secretly Pushed Rule That Would Make It Easier to Delay Certification of Georgia’s Election Results

    On Monday, the GOP-controlled State Election Board is poised to adopt the rule, which would potentially allow county officials, including one who secretly backed the rule, to throw the election results of the swing state into chaos this fall.

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  • Despite Recent Water Supply Improvement, More Cuts Expected for Colorado River, Feds Say

    After Lake Mead hit an all-time low two years ago, the Colorado River’s water supply is in a much better position this summer, but it hasn’t improved enough to prevent further cuts this year.

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  • Chief Fiscal Officers of Major U.S. Cities Urge DHS Flexibility in Federal Funding for Asylum Seekers
  • DHS Unveils new Shields Ready campaign to promote critical infrastructure security and resilience
  • Eagle Pass Mayor Declares State of Emergency as Migrants Flood City
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  • FBI Albany and Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office Announce $10,000 FBI Reward for Information Related to the Tampering of a Rail Line in Corinth
  • State Farm will no longer accept applications for homeowners insurance in California, citing wildfire risk
  • Nuclear reactor restarts, but Japan’s energy policy in flux
  • Hawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
  • Kansas getting $500K in law enforcement grants
  • Bill widens Sacramento police, sheriff’s contract security opportunities
  • DHS awards $97 million in port security grants
  • DHS awarding $1.3 billion in 2012 preparedness grants
  • Cellphone firms share location data with law enforcement, not users
  • Residents of Murrieta, California, will have to subscribe for emergency services
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  • Ports of L.A., Long Beach get Homeland Security grants
  • Homeland security gets involved with Indiana water conservation
  • LAPD embraces “predictive policing”
  • New GPS rival is hack-proof
  • German internal security service head quits over botched investigation
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  • U.S. Coast Guard creates “protest-free zone” in Alaska oil drilling zone
  • Congress passes measure to enhance Israel security ties
  • Wickr enables encrypted, self-destructing iPhone messages
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  • Cybercrime disclosures rare despite new SEC rule
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  • DHS allocates nearly $10 million to Jewish nonprofits
  • Turkey deploys troops, tanks to Syrian border
  • Israel fears terror attacks on Syrian border
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