10 Things To Know This Week: September 5
- Queen Elizabeth II, UK’s longest-serving monarch, passed away at 96, on Thursday, September 8.
- To commemorate the first day of school at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Consol’s students, teachers, and staff dressed in maroon and black colors on Tuesday, September 6.
- Consol’s varsity football team is set to play against Lufkin at the Tigerland stadium. There will be a country-themed dress up day accompanied by a pep rally held at the end of the school day in the gymnasium.
- Students, employees, and volunteers of Bryan school district will work together to help construct a Habitat for Humanity house over the course of the year.
- Three people were killed in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 79 near Texas 6, outside of Hearne, on Wednesday, September 7.
- A federal judge in Texas ruled that businesses are not required to cover medication that prevents HIV infection as it may violate the freedom of some Christian employers.
- An oil company in California pleaded guilty in federal court to discharging crude off the Southern California coast when its underwater pipeline ruptured last year. The spill closed miles of shoreline and shuttered fisheries.
- Liz Truss succeeded Borris Johnson as the new prime minister of the United Kingdom and formally became prime minister on Tuesday, September 6. Truss defeated her rival, Rishi Sunak, to become Britain’s third female prime minister.
- Ten people were killed and eighteen were wounded in a series of attacks on Sunday, September 4, devastating an indigenous community in Saskatchewan, Canada, making it one of the deadliest attacks in Canada’s modern history.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency called for a safety and security zone at the Zaporizhzhia plant in Ukraine amid continuing shelling.
