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Nearly 12K people to lose SNAP benefits in Bastrop County
Editor’s Note: The video attached to this story aired on Oct. 27, 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nearly 12,000 people in Bastrop County will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds in November due to the government shutdown, the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry said in a news release. “Millions of low-income Americans are expected to…
Read MoreElon Musk’s Daughter Vivian Wilson Responds to Critic Asking to Hear Her “Real Voice”
Exa Dark Sideræl Musk & Techno Mechanicus Musk (Kids) In her 2022 Vanity Fair interview, Grimes revealed she and Elon privately welcomed a baby girl via surrogacy. “Exa is a reference to the supercomputing term exaFLOPS (the ability to perform 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second),” she said. “Dark, meanwhile, is the unknown. People fear it but…
Read More'The well has run dry': USDA to not issue SNAP benefits for November amidst shutdown
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Congress missed a key deadline Monday — and it could leave millions of Texans wondering about where their next meal is coming from. The second-longest federal government shutdown in history entered its 27th day Monday, and has shown no signs of ending. Without a resolution, it would become the longest shutdown in…
Read MoreWaymo Co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana on What’s Next: Highways, Airports, New Cities
Tekedra Mawakana, co-CEO of Waymo, speaks onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 on Oct. 27, 2025 in San Francisco. Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for TechCrunch Waymo, the self-driving company owned by Alphabet, is soon hitting the highways. Operating on highways is just one part of a rapid expansion plan that includes moving to six U.S.…
Read MoreThe Cost of Mistaking Plans for Strategy in an Uncertain Economy
Plans create comfort. Strategy creates coherence. That distinction matters now more than ever. Unsplash+ When 84 percent of executives say their organizations aren’t prepared for the next disruption, the problem isn’t just about managing the uncertainty; it’s outright confusion. Too many leaders still mistake planning for strategy. A plan is a list of actions, whereas…
Read MoreReviewers Swear by These Under-Eye Masks — Shop Grace & Stella, Summer Fridays, Dieux & More
Cold weather is officially here, and that means dry skin and drier under eyes. Whether you’re a regular eye mask user or you’re brand new to these adorable little masks, adding this step as part of your daily skincare routine may make you look more hydrated and awake. Are you struggling with dryness? Or do…
Read MoreAt 85 Years Old, American Ballet Theatre Has Never Looked Better
Léa Fleytoux in Natalia Makarova’s The Kingdom of the Shades. Photo: Emma Zordan On the evening of Thursday, January 11, 1940, the curious audience at the Center Theatre in New York City held playbills that read The Ballet Theatre: America’s First Ballet Theatre Staged by the Greatest Collaboration in Ballet History. The first part of…
Read MoreWhy Horror Movies and Scaring Yourself Can Make You Feel Less Anxious
I grew up scared of everything: death, the dark, my own face in the bathroom mirror. Eventually, I learned my bottomless fear belied several anxiety and anxiety-adjacent disorders that I’ve been addressing in adulthood with the help of therapy, medication, and an unlikely third salve: ravenous horror-film consumption. Contagion got me through the first night…
Read MoreHurricane Melissa, at Category 5, is set to slam into Jamaica as island's strongest recorded storm
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength Monday as it neared Jamaica, where forecasters said it would unleash catastrophic flooding, multiple landslides and extensive infrastructure damage. It would be the strongest hurricane to hit the island since record keeping began in 1851. Melissa, blamed for six deaths in the northern Caribbean…
Read MoreHugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Make Red Carpet Debut as a Couple
After sparking dating rumors, Jackman and Foster appeared to confirm their romance by holding hands in Santa Monica, Calif., Jan. 6, 2025—a day after he attended her final show in L.A.’s Once Upon a Mattress.Later that month, the two were spotted kissing and going on dates. Foster also supported Jackman during his residency at New…
Read MoreThe Coming Dementia Crisis—and the Cost of Doing Nothing
Without federal action on prevention, care infrastructure and caregiver support, dementia could reshape the American economy. Unsplash+ It’s like watching a slow-moving meteor approach in plain sight. Everyone can see it coming, everyone knows the damage will be catastrophic—and yet our collective response has been to shrug and hope a cocktail umbrella will be enough…
Read MoreTexas State hopes 'deep dive' gets them a midweek win over James Madison
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Sun Belt Conference farewell tour for Texas State has hit a rough patch over the past three weeks, and things aren’t getting easier with James Madison headed to San Marcos on Tuesday. The Bobcats have lost their last two games in overtime, 48-41 to Troy on Oct. 11 and 40-37 to…
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