{"id":240362,"date":"2026-04-08T13:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240362\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:15:21","slug":"morning-briefing-texas-april-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/240362\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Texas April 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Let’s enjoy today while we have the sunny skies and lower humidity. A slight chance of a few showers in South Texas today gives way to higher rain chances Thursday for Central and South-Central Texas. All eyes turn to the weekend when severe weather begins to become a chance Sunday. Then daily storm chances will continue with a severe chance included through the early part of next week, especially for Dallas-Fort Worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Large crowd protests against proposed border wall in Big Bend<\/a><\/p>\n

As many as 2,000 people, according to some estimates,\u00a0gathered on the steps of the Texas Capitol on Saturday to protest the construction of a border wall in the Big Bend region. This is an issue that has garnered considerable public pressure from local residents, authorities and even from circles within the U.S. Border Patrol.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Texas State Board of Education considers overhaul of social studies curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Texas State Board of Education took up a discussion on an overhaul to the state\u2019s social studies curriculum.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS standards, which decide what public school students learn about all over Texas.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Political divisions fuel push to have Texas annex part of New Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything is bigger in Texas, but could the state get even larger? Texas lawmakers have begun exploring whether to annex a part of neighboring New Mexico, where many residents say they would prefer to join the Lone Star State. However, key officials in New Mexico are dismissing the idea.<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0U.S., Israel and Iran agree to 2-week ceasefire though some attacks continue<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released, Iraqi official tells the AP<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Artemis II begins journey back home<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\"A<\/p>\n

A Chili’s restaurant logo stands lit in El Paso, Tex., Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. (AP Photo\/Rogelio V. Solis)<\/p>\n

Famous Chili’s at 45th and Lamar land, neighboring complex up for sale<\/a><\/p>\n

The lot housing Chili\u2019s at 45th and Lamar, famous in meme and Reddit communities seemingly for just existing, is for sale alongside its neighboring land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Let’s enjoy today while we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2160,138,140,139,1974,27,835],"class_list":["post-240362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-app-top-stories","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-katharine-finnerty","tag-texas","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}