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• State leaders react after 'credible threat' to legislators at Texas Capitol, violence in Minnesota

  15-06-2025 02:06 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- State leaders reacted to the "credible threat" to state legislators at the Texas Capitol on as a "No Kings" protest was expected to kick off at 5 p.m. Saturday.Earlier in the day, the Texas Department of Public Safety said the State Capitol building and grounds were evacuated and closed Saturday following the investigation of the credible threat. DPS: 1 arrested after ‘credible’ threat to state legislators planning to attend protestDPS also confirmed shortly before 5
  
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• NWS: First ever Heat Advisory issued in Alaska

  15-06-2025 01:13 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The National Weather Service has issued the first ever Heat Advisory for Alaska in the Fairbanks area to prepare for the warmer than normal temperatures expected over the next few days.
  While this is the first Heat Advisory ever received in Alaska, this is not the first time the state has experienced these highs.NWS Fairbanks Issued Heat AdvisoryThe Heat Advisory will be in effect from 1 p.m. Sunday to 7 p.m. Tuesday, with high temperatures expected to be in the 70s and 80s.Thes
  
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• State of Texas: Immigration crackdown brings concern over impact on workers

  15-06-2025 01:00 via kxan.com
  
  AUSTIN (Nexstar) - Immigration enforcement operations targeting worksites have led to arrests and deportations of workers across the country.  Some of the people caught up in the raids have been working in the U.S. for years. The action sparked protests in cities around the country, including in Texas. But the backlash to the immigration crackdown goes deeper than protests in the streets.  Businesses and farmers have also pushed back.  At a news conference on Thursday, Presid
  
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• Suburban Dissent: Retirees and families rally at Pflugerville 'No Kings' protest

  15-06-2025 00:39 via kxan.com
  
  PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (KXAN) - One-by-one, anti-Trump protesters shuffled on sidewalks behind Murchison Elementary School. With signs under-arm and chairs in hands, some wrinkled and others tiny, hundreds lined up along busy Kelly Lane for the second Austin-area "No Kings" demonstration Saturday.No Kings protests calling out President Donald Trump are scheduled throughout the nation Saturday "in response to increasing authoritarian excesses." The protests come the same day as President Donald Trum
  
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