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  • The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted in favor of accepting a new grant worth just over $2 million from the state of Texas today. The money is designated to pay for expenses related to the 2019 Walmart mass shooting case, including services for victims of the crime.
  • Just outside of Odessa, there’s a small national natural landmark identifying one of the only known asteroid craters in the country. About 60,000 years ago, when woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers roamed the Earth, an asteroid slammed into what is now known as West Texas
  • The U.S. Senate’s bill to send billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine and Israel along with strict border security measures failed to pass today. Democratic leadership is moving to pass aid to the U.S.’s allies without those border security proposals now.
  • A panel of Texas House lawmakers is looking into what can be done to prevent sexually explicit, deep fakes of minors. A proposal to overhaul Sun Metro’s transit system will impact most routes under an initiative called Sun Metro Rising, according to city officials.
  • City manager Dionne Mack and her administration began this year’s budget workshops with the City Council today. Members of the El Paso Fire Department’s Water Rescue team traveled to Central, Texas to assist state agencies with rescue operations.
  • House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with All Things Considered's Juana Summers to talk about the recent debt ceiling negotiations and what this says about the direction Congress is headed.
  • Iowa's Republican-led Legislature passed a bill banning most abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy during a marathon session Tuesday. Gov. Kim Reynolds said she would sign the bill on Friday.
  • The El Paso Public Service Board is scheduled to discuss the sale of over 20,000 acres of land owned by the El Paso Water utility this week.
  • The murder of the 14-year-old black boy and subsequent trial before an all-white jury was an early landmark in the civil rights movement.
  • More than 1,100 people have already been charged for their actions around Jan. 6 and many of them invoked Former President Donald Trump, who may also be indicted.
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