A list of ten events from the past week
- After multiple rounds of voting, the House of Representatives elected Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker on the 15th ballot on saturday, Jan. 7.
- Consol’s boys varsity basketball team won 71-53 against Lake Creek on Tuesday, Jan. 10. The team is set to play against Montgomery at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 13.
- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system halted domestic flights across the US due to a system outage on Wednesday, Jan. 11, causing delays and cancellations of thousands of flights across the country.
- Universal Parks & Resorts announced plans to build two new amusement parks—sized for a regional audience—in Frisco, Texas and Las Vegas, Nevada, on Wednesday, Jan. 11.
- Consol Student Council donated $2,067, raised by the student council class of 2022, to the food pantry.
- Tiger cheer is set to compete at the UIL Spirit State Championship. The team was given a send off on Thursday, Jan. 12.
- The College Station City Council voted to approve the city’s legislative program for the ongoing session of the Texas Legislature on Thursday, Jan. 12.
- After more than 35 tornadoes were reported across the southern U.S., at least six people have been killed by tornadoes in Alabama on Thursday, Jan. 12.
- After more than 20 states across the nation blocked the app, Wisconsin and North Carolina banned the use of popular social media platform TikTok on government-owned devices on Thursday, Jan. 12.
- Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals—a group of 17 elements—has been found in Sweden.
