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What is Galaxy Gas? Texas officials warn parents about dangers of whippets featured in social media trend
KERRVILLE, Texas — The Kerrville Police Department issued a warning to parents about the dangers of “Galaxy Gas” posing a health risk to young people. Officials say “whippets,” or inhalant drugs, featured in hundreds of videos being shared to social media have potentially deadly consequences and are growing increasingly popular among teens.
How election deniers are fueling the push to hand count ballots
Gillespie County, Texas — For the last year, Mark Cook has been preaching a kind of low-tech, election-doubting gospel in political battlegrounds across the country. "But we're told: trust the machines ... and that is a way to manipulate an election," Cook recently said at an event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Traveling by RV, Cook calls the three-hour plus presentation he's brought to more than 100 counties, the "Hand Count Roadshow." Cook is part of an election conspiracy movement that's been growing since 2020 and claims that voting machines can be hacked and manipulated — meaning the only voting system to...
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