SUMMARY: Following a severe microburst on May 28, 2025, Austin Energy experienced its third-worst outage event, with over 72,500 customers (12.8%) losing power at the peak. Winds reached 85 mph, uprooting trees and damaging power infrastructure. Restoration was complicated by subsequent storms but was fully completed by June 2, about 4 days later. Over 163,000 total outages affected roughly 124,000 customers out of 566,000. The storm damaged 91 poles, 52 transformers, and 32,000 feet of overhead cable. Austin Energy leveraged lessons from past storms, improving incident management, outage communication, and mutual aid coordination, with help from 250 utility crews to restore power efficiently.

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SUMMARY: Minnesota authorities have captured 57-year-old Vance Boelter, the suspect accused of fatally shooting State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, in addition to injuring State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. The targeted attack began early Saturday morning with shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, where Boelter, disguised as an officer with a fake police vehicle, was first encountered. The suspect fled, prompting shelter-in-place orders and a manhunt. Both Hortmans died of multiple gunshot wounds, while the Hoffmans remain hospitalized. Authorities recovered multiple weapons from Boelter’s car. The FBI offered a $50,000 reward, and a press conference is expected soon.

Boelter is the suspect who assassinated Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife. Rep. Hortman and her husband Mark were fatally shot in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday morning. Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were shot and injured in their Champlin home.

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SUMMARY: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry remains active in state and federal policy, notably promoting research on ibogaine, a psychedelic compound believed to aid veterans with PTSD and addiction. Texas recently allocated $50 million to ibogaine clinical studies, championed by Perry and Bryan Hubbard. They also formed Americans for Ibogaine, aiming to expand trials nationwide and reclassify ibogaine for medical use. Perry supports Governor Abbott’s decision to deploy the National Guard to manage protests and commented on the halted Texas Dream Act, attributing its demise to immigration issues under the Biden administration. Perry praised retiring Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp and welcomed incoming chancellor Glenn Hegar.

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