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Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III to step down after a week of turmoil
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Amarillo KVII - Texas
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Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will step down on Friday after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course, the Texas A&M...
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Texas A&M president resigning following political backlash over classroom video
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Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Mark Welsh, the president of Texas A&M University, will resign Friday in the wake of criticism over the fallout from the release earlier this month of a video that showed a student confronting a professor over class...
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Texas A&M president to step down after turmoil over viral classroom video
Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will step down on Friday after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course, the Texas A&M...
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Texas A&M Athletic Director’s Statement About Mark Welsh’s Resignation
Texas A&M’s president is stepping down. Mark Welsh’s resignation was announced by the A&M system board of regents and chancellor minutes after a special meeting of the board. Welsh would have completed two years as president in December after...
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Texas A&M President Quits Over Gender Ideology Row
Texas A&M President Mark Welsh will resign Friday amid political backlash stemming from his handling of a student complaint about gender identity content during a children’s literature course. The university made the announcement Thursday....
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Texas A&M president to resign Friday over backlash regarding viral gender ideology video
Texas A&M President Mark Welsh will resign his post on Friday, the university's board announced Thursday, after a week of heavy criticism regarding the school's response to a video that went viral last week. The video was filmed by a student who...
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Texas A&M president is stepping down after upheaval over classroom video
Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led to the professor’s firing. The resignation of school...
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Texas A&M President Steps Down Under Pressure
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Inside Higher Ed
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Texas A&M University president Mark Welsh stepped down abruptly Thursday under mounting pressure from state lawmakers over how he handled a recent incident in which a student clashed with a professor over a lesson on gender identity, prompting him...
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Senate expected to vote Friday on dueling stopgap bills
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Democratic strategist Raj Goyle and Republican strategist Matt Klink discuss the latest. WASHINGTON - U.S. senators are expected to vote Friday on competing stopgap bills that both aim to temporarily fund the government past the Sept. 30 deadline,...
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Texas women’s swim and dive embraces growth, opportunity this season
Texas women’s swimming and diving sees a season full of opportunity ahead. After a dominant first year in the Southeastern Conference and a fifth straight top-three finish at the NCAA championships, the Longhorns look to continue their momentum....
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Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism
A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of...
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Texas man busted for making vile death threats against Zohran Mamdani, released on $30K bail
A Texas bigot was hauled to the Big Apple to face charges Thursday for making chilling death threats against mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani, authorities said. Jeremy Fistel, 44, kept mum as he walked out of Queens Supreme Court to a scrum of...
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Texas man indicted for allegedly sending death threats to New York City's Mamdani
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz on Thursday announced that a Texas man has been arrested and indicted for allegedly sending death threats and other violent threats to New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani, the...
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Texas Republican makes ‘disgusting’ call for mass institutionalisation of trans people
Ronny Jackson’s transphobic rhetoric was branded ‘disgusting’ (Getty) Texas Republican Ronny Jackson has been heavily condemned after calling for the mass institutionalisation of trans people. The 58-year-old former chief medical advisor made a...
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Texas man pleads not guilty to making threats against Zohran Mamdani
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CBS - New York
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A Texas man is facing charges for allegedly making threats against Zohran Mamdani and his family. CBS News New York's Andrew Ramos heard from the mayoral candidates at a time when political violence has public figures on high alert.
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Texas A&M president resigns following viral classroom confrontation and professor firing
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KRHD) — Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh will officially step down Friday at 5 p.m. following a viral video confrontation over course content and the firing of a professor, marking another change in leadership for...
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Texas man arrested over Islamophobic threats against Zohran Mamdani
A Texas man was arrested last week after he allegedly made repeated threats against the Democratic nominee for New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday. Jeremy Fistel of Plano, Texas, allegedly made...
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Texas Governor Signs Bill Allowing Residents to Sue Mail-Order Abortion Pill Providers
Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to reporters after a bill signing at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 22, 2025. Eric Gay/AP Photo WASHINGTON—Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 17 signed a bill into law that aims to halt the sale of abortion...
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Texas A&M Forest Service pins newest law enforcement officer
Troy Poe, Texas A&M Forest Service Fire Coordinator, was sworn in as a Texas A&M Forest Service Law Enforcement additional duty officer last week. As an additional duty officer, Poe will assist in investigating Texas wildfires, predominantly in...
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