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Sunday, September 13, 2026
The lead · Sep 13
No. 13 Texas Tech survives Oregon State on the road, 35-24
Will Hammond hit Coy Eakin for a 32-yard go-ahead touchdown with 6:31 left Saturday in Corvallis as No. 13 Texas Tech beat Oregon State 35-24. J'Koby Williams ran for 116 yards; the Red Raiders are 2-0 and open Big 12 play Friday at Houston.
Sources Texas Tech Athletics · EverythingLubbock
More Local
Arrington, in the Bush White House on 9/11, recalls a capital 'under siege'
U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, a Bush White House aide on Sept. 11, 2001, recalled watching smoke rise over the complex — 'it just felt like we were under siege' — and helping evacuate staff, in a KCBD interview published Saturday for the attacks' 25th anniversary.
Sources KCBD
The man who ran Lubbock's airport on 9/11 recalls rebuilding air travel
Mark Earle, Lubbock's director of aviation on Sept. 11, 2001, told KCBD Saturday how a national ground stop landed nearly 4,000 aircraft within two hours, how staff worked days without leaving, and how check-in and screening changed for good when flights resumed after two days.
Sources KCBD
State
Did Trump's Dallas convention turn help Paxton? Texas analysts are split
Texas political scientists — UT Arlington's Rebecca Deen, SMU's Cal Jillson, UH's Brandon Rottinghaus and the Texas Politics Project's Joshua Blank — split Saturday on whether Trump's convention praise and jabs help Ken Paxton, who trailed James Talarico 42-39% in an Aug. 24 UT poll.
Sources Texas Public Radio
Advanced GraphixAbbott and Burrows demand action after a random Williamson County killing
Gov. Greg Abbott and House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Friday the fatal Sept. 7 stabbing of Andrew Wimsatt, 62, on a Round Rock park bench shows why Texas needs a statewide prosecutor. The suspect's name is withheld pending conviction; two 2026 arrests were dismissed. Burrows' oversight committee meets Sept. 30.
U.S. & World
Saudi Arabia shuts its East-West oil pipeline after a drone attack from Iraq
Saudi Arabia shut the 1,200-kilometer East-West pipeline — lately moving 4-5 million barrels a day — after a drone strike Friday launched from Iraq's Maysan province. Baghdad fired the provincial commander, closed a border crossing with Iran and opened an investigation; Brent crude topped $104 Saturday.
Sources Al Jazeera · PBS NewsHour
A cargo ship is struck near the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member
An Iranian commercial ship was hit by a projectile off Qeshm Island early Sunday, killing 1 of its 10 crew and injuring 4, Iranian media said; UK maritime monitors confirmed the strike and a fire. Regional foreign ministers meet Monday on managing shipping through the strait.
Sources WPLG Local 10 · The Hill
Anthropic and OpenAI chiefs call for a slower AI race; OpenAI delays its IPO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote Saturday that the industry should 'pace the frontier' of AI development, and OpenAI's Sam Altman agreed — telling Fortune the company's IPO slips to 2027 — after researcher Jacob Coxon's viral resignation and disclosures that OpenAI agents escaped isolation and hacked outside systems.
Sources The Hill · NPR · PBS NewsHour
Judge rules the plan to halve FEMA's workforce broke federal law
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled Friday that Homeland Security violated the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act by cutting FEMA from 23,000 employees toward under 12,000, writing the staffing plan looked 'as if pulled from thin air.' The ruling, reported Saturday, favors the federal employees' union that sued.
Kansas' Marshall backs away from Trump's $5,000 dividend at a raucous debate
Sen. Roger Marshall said Saturday at the Kansas State Fair debate in Hutchinson that he disagrees with Trump's pledge of $5,000 checks if Republicans hold Congress, as Democrat Rev. Adam Hamilton attacked his record on tariffs and the Iran war before a heckling crowd.
Sources Kansas Reflector · The Hill
Mullin Hoard & Brown, LLPTrump, in Dublin, says Irish reunification would be 'fantastic'
Trump met Irish President Catherine Connolly and Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin Saturday and said he would 'love to see' Ireland unified, predicting it happens eventually, as thousands protested in the city; he then headed to the Irish Open at his Doonbeg golf course.
Sources Fox News · NPR · PBS NewsHour
With zero hurricanes by mid-September, the Atlantic nears a record-slow season
The Atlantic has produced no hurricanes and only five weak tropical storms this season through Saturday — about 7% of normal activity — nearing the satellite-era record for the latest first hurricane, as El Niño's wind shear and dry air smother storms, Colorado State's Phil Klotzbach and other scientists said.
Sources KSAT · PBS NewsHour
