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Gasoline prices are displayed outside a convenience store as a motorist drives by May 26 in Thornton, Colorado.

Some U.S. gas prices higher than federal minimum hourly wage (Infographic)

VICTOR SWEZEY, Southwest Journalist
June 1, 2022
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and progressive Jessica Cisneros are facing off in the Democratic primary race.

Cuellar, Cisneros Democratic primary runoff too close to call

Associated Press
June 1, 2022
A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on May 24. The region, along with neighboring Luhansk, is part of the Donbas, where Russian forces have focused their offensive.

Biden says US sending medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine

LOLITA C. BALDOR and BEN FOX, Associated Press
June 1, 2022
Ricky Freitag sits in his father-in-law’s office in Uvalde. He said of hunting for sport in the area: “That’s always been the culture here.”

Gun ownership ingrained in Uvalde’s culture; some rethinking regulations

BRIAN LOPEZ, Texas Tribune
June 1, 2022
Women walk near Lakeshore Boulevard in Austin with the skyline in the background in 2016. The Texas capital became the largest American city to challenge its 2020 U.S. Census Bureau figures by filing an appeal with the bureau in May 2022. The city claims it has more than the 961,855 residents counted during the nations once-a-decade head count.

Austin argues Census left out 7,000 households from 2020 count (Infographic)

MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press
June 1, 2022
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