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Another scorcher is expected today under clear skies. Tomorrow we are on the watch for dangerous heat indices as additional moisture pulls in from the south and mixes with these hot temperatures.
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Around Texas
1. Power restored to most hit by deadly Houston storm with full service expected by Wednesday
Houston area residents affected by deadly storms last week received some good news as officials said power was restored Sunday to a majority of the hundreds of thousands who had been left in the dark and without air conditioning during hot and humid weather.
The widespread destruction of Thursday’s storms left at least seven dead and brought much of Houston to a standstill. Thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds tore through the city, reducing businesses and other structures to piles of debris, uprooting trees and shattering glass from downtown skyscrapers.
2. Texas Tribune: Trump, Abbott paint gun rights as imperiled at NRA convention
At the National Rifle Association’s annual convention on Saturday, Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott encouraged the thousands gathered to vote for Trump in the 2024 presidential election as a way to ensure their Second Amendment rights.
“The NRA has stood with me from the very beginning, and with your vote, I will stand strong for your rights and liberties,” Trump said. “I heard it a few weeks ago that if gun owners voted, we would swamp them at levels that nobody's ever seen before. I think you're a rebellious bunch, but let's be rebellious and vote this time.”
3. America's first Black astronaut candidate finally goes to space 60 years later on Bezos rocket
America’s first Black astronaut candidate finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos’ rocket company on Sunday.
Ed Dwight was an Air Force pilot when President John F. Kennedy championed him as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps. But he wasn’t picked for the 1963 class.
Dwight, now 90, went through a few minutes of weightlessness with five other passengers aboard the Blue Origin capsule as it skimmed space on a roughly 10-minute flight. He called it “a life changing experience.”
Around the Nation
1. Iran's president, foreign minister found dead at helicopter crash site
2. U.S. troops will complete their withdrawal from Niger by mid-September, the Pentagon says
3. Biden tells Morehouse graduates that he hears their voices of protest over the war in Gaza
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The sequel has been much better for Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving as Mavs head to West finals
A smiling Luka Doncic pumped his fist as he settled in next to Kyrie Irving to answer questions about the Dallas Mavericks advancing to the Western Conference finals for the second time in three seasons.