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- 1Progressive Austin council candidate arrested at ICE protest●Progressive candidate arrested after ICE protest says officer threatened to shoot pet
Misael Ramos, a democratic socialist candidate for Austin City Council, was arrested by Texas troopers on Saturday morning during a protest against ICE. The arrest came after an ICE agent shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin. Ramos says an officer threatened to shoot his pet during the arrest. The incident has drawn attention to tensions over immigration enforcement in Texas.
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Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania got his facts wrong while speaking about his own party during an appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. The stumble drew quick attention and mockery from political observers, feeding into ongoing debate about Fetterman's political positioning and his increasingly strained relationship with the Democratic Party.
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The State of Texas is moving to broaden its involvement in the space economy, according to a report from KXAN Austin. The announcement points to growing state-level investment and policy attention on space-related industries, from launch operations to research and manufacturing. Texas has been courting aerospace activity as part of a wider push among US states to capture a share of the fast-growing commercial space sector.