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Convention News — FHS students will be attending two conventions from July 6-10. FFA students will join over 12,000 fellow members at the Fort Worth Convention Center for the 98th Texas FFA State Convention. The event will include leadership workshops, award ceremonies, and agricultural exhibitions. FCCLA students will join thousands of other members in Washington D.C. for the FCCLA National Leadership Conference which will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The event theme is “Connected” and will include networking, STAR Event competitions, and leadership workshops. Enjoy and stay safe!
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Auto Nation — More than 16 million cars were sold in the United States in 2025, with General Motors leading all automakers at nearly 2.9 million units, followed by Toyota (2.5 million) and Ford (2.2 million). Hyundai/Kia came in fourth with 1.8 million sales, while Honda (1.4 million) rounded out the top five. Stellantis, the successor to Chrysler, landed sixth at 1.3 million, and Tesla finished ninth with just 589,000 in domestic sales. The Flyover
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Space Rescue — NASA is launching a first-of-its-kind rescue on Tuesday to save the aging Swift Observatory before it tumbles out of orbit. Liftoff comes aboard the final Pegasus rocket, which an aircraft will release over the Marshall Islands. Intense solar activity has been dragging the telescope down, and the gamma-ray observatory, in space since 2004, has no engines to climb back on its own. Under a $30 million contract, Arizona startup Katalyst Space built a refrigerator-sized, three-armed robot to chase Swift down and grapple it. If it works, the robot will catch Swift within about a month and raise it to a stable orbit by September. Officials say Hubble could need the same lifeline next. The Flyover
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Screwworm Update — The flesh-eating New World screwworm has reached the South Texas border, turning up in a cow in Jim Hogg County and pushing state quarantines to parts of 21 counties. The Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the case and established a new infested zone spanning parts of Jim Hogg, Starr, and Zapata counties. In all, officials have confirmed 26 cases nationwide since early June with 25 in Texas and one in New Mexico. The parasite’s larvae burrow into the open wounds of livestock, pets, and wildlife, a condition that can be fatal if untreated. Inside the zones, ranchers cannot move animals, hides, or carcasses without a state inspection. Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide disaster declaration, issued earlier this year, remains in effect, with the state’s cattle industry at stake. The Texas Flyover
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