As construction gets closer for the Austin Light Rail Project, some local businesses are dealing with the reality that they’ll need to move. One business owner says the news feels like a gut punch.
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- A restaurant owner’s comments about his preference for hiring male servers over women have sparked outrage and plans for a protest in Wisconsin.
- A Texas couple was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years each in federal prison for operating a fraudulent chain-referral pyramid scheme that prosecutors said cheated more than 10,000 people nationwide out of more than $30 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- An anonymous former child actor has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against Sean "Diddy" Combs alleging sexual assault in 2007, while also suing his talent agencies for negligence.
- The World Cup is a global language of its own, and one creator is helping more fans feel included by teaching essential soccer signs in ASL.
- The Austin Police Department has released new details regarding the death of a man in police custody over the weekend.
- U.S. inflation surged to a three-year high in part because of skyrocketing gas prices as consumer prices exceeded 4% in May’s overall inflationary spike.
- A New Zealand soccer player became one of the World Cup’s most unexpected viral stories after an Argentine influencer urged fans to follow him.
- A Virginia police department is warning drivers about a new way scammers are trying to rip off people when they fill their tanks: the gas pump screw scam.
- Most visitors who responded to the Trump administration’s request to report “negative" portrayals of Americans at U.S. national parks used the opportunity to criticize the effort itself.
- Sales of existing U.S. homes rose sharply in May, climbing 3.2% from April and 3.2% from a year earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.17 million units.
- The United States hit a clean energy milestone last month as the amount of electricity generated through solar power topped what was made by coal for the first time ever.
- The Texas Animal Health Commission has released an interactive map tracking cases of New World screwworm in Texas.

