The Daily Shear

As UT Austin trims undergraduate electives in favor of state-approved philosophers, the Treasury sells $742 billion in debt at decades-high yields while the DNC drops Iowa from its presidential primary calendar.

Austin ISD triggers a mandatory state takeover threat, while a Fed delay freezes Old Glory Bank's public merger and investors sue Selena Gomez over a ghost app.

Austin ISD runs into a state takeover threat, South Korea’s market freezes as investors flee AI tech, and the Kennedy Center prepares to rebrand its facade.

Austin raises property taxes to fund a new budget, Elon Musk secures tax breaks for a massive Grimes County chip plant, and a federal lawsuit challenges a six-figure paywall for White House policy statements.

ICE prepares to buy shock gloves for arrests, El Paso stalls school bond repairs, and a frozen national housing market prices out frustrated buyers.

Meta clears its regulatory ledger by adopting grid rules while keeping an El Paso tax break, Wall Street prices a microsecond jump on Trump's posts, and a Syrian court sentences Bashar Assad to death in absentia.

As Hutto delays charter changes that would let relocated council members vote, tech workers find AI fails to cut their work hours, and Iran demands war reparations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Texas freezes new data center grid connections for resource audits, X reroutes creator payouts toward original content, and Senate Republicans stall a massive spending bill containing a multimillion-dollar White House ballroom.