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Hut 8 shares surge nearly 30 percent after signing $9.8 billion ai data center lease
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Hut 8 announced a 15-year lease valued at $9.8 billion for a large-scale AI data center in Texas, sending its shares up nearly 30 percent on Wednesday. The deal covers 352 megawatts of capacity at the company's Beacon Point campus and includes options that could raise the total value to $25.1 billion.
Ryan Nichols, a Texas man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, was arrested Sunday and charged with deadly conduct after allegedly threatening a churchgoer with a pistol.
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Authorities discovered the bodies of six people inside a shipping container at a Union Pacific rail yard in Laredo, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. The victims, five men and one woman, are believed to have died from heat stroke as temperatures climbed to 97 degrees.
At least 200 U.S. Border Patrol agents from across the country, including the northern border, have been reassigned on 30-day volunteer duties to Laredo, Texas, to pursue migrants evading capture. Multiple Department of Homeland Security sources described the move as a response to a recent influx of 'gotaways' in the area. Agents on the northern border expressed reluctance to leave their posts due to ongoing smuggling pressures.
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Tamisha Cheyniece Drake, a 33-year-old woman from Angelina County, Texas, faces felony charges after admitting to exhuming her infant daughter's body from a cemetery and leaving it in a driveway. The Angelina County Sheriff's Office discovered the disturbance at Davis Memorial Gardens in the Cedar Grove area on Thursday. Drake directed deputies to the unoccupied residence where the remains were found still inside the original burial container.
Jacob Daniel Vega, 40, faces charges of aggravated assault after police say he strangled his seven-weeks-pregnant wife in front of their young child at their home in Waco, Texas. The incident occurred on Monday on Misty Drive. Officers noted visible injuries on the victim consistent with strangulation.
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After winning the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate primary last month, state Rep. James Talarico announced a record $27 million fundraising haul for the first quarter of 2026—the largest ever for a Senate candidate in an election year's opening quarter. The grassroots-driven funds, mostly small donations, bolster his general election bid against the winner of the ongoing GOP primary runoff between Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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