It was the second time they have told the judge they cannot reach a verdict, leading Sullivan to read what is known as a final "dynamite" instruction. 

"I know it's been a long day. First off, thank you for your time," Sullivan said before telling jurors they are dismissed for the day and set to return in the morning.

The nine women and three men have been deliberating over the course of five days since getting the case in Plymouth Superior Court last Thursday.

They sent a note to Sullivan Tuesday morning saying they were "unable to come to a unanimous decision," but he sent them back to keep discussing the case. They sent a similar note on Wednesday around 2:15 p.m.

In response, Sullivan read what are called the "Tuey-Rodriguez" instructions to the jury. After reading jurors the instruction, Sullivan sent them back out of the courtroom to continue deliberations.

In Massachusetts, this is a last resort instruction aimed at getting the jurors to reach a verdict. WBZ-TV's Kristina Rex, who has been in the courtroom for the trial, said the instruction is considered a "Hail Mary." This instruction, also known as the "dynamite charge," happened in Karen Read's first trial in 2024.  

The instruction was also used during the Massachusetts trial of Emanuel Lopes in 2023. Lopes was charged with the murder of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna in 2018. His first trial in 2023 ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury.

During the retrial in 2024, the jury told the judge three times that it was deadlocked. The jury eventually reached a unanimous guilty verdict after six days and 32 hours of deliberations.

Lindsay Clancy jury options

Clancy is charged with the first-degree murders of her three children - 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan - in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.  

Jurors can unanimously vote for one of five options - not guilty by reason of insanity, not guilty, first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter.

A hung jury could eventually lead to a mistrial. It has happened twice recently in Massachusetts - in 2023 in the case of Emanuel Lopes, who was charged with the murder of Weymouth Police Sgt. Michael Chesna, and in 2024 in the first Karen Read trial.

Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington said she was not criminally responsible because she was overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors said Clancy planned the killings and knew right from wrong when she strangled the children.

"We really don't know what's going on in that jury room, and we don't know what they're grappling with," said WBZ-TV legal analyst Jennifer Roman.

"Maybe they've reached a decision about not guilty by reason of insanity, but they don't know which charge. Maybe they've decided on the charge, but don't know if it's a guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity, or if it's some combination of those two things. We just don't know."

Reddington has called out Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz for charging Clancy with first-degree murder, which makes a jury trial mandatory.

If Clancy had been charged with second-degree murder, a plea deal could have been a possibility and there would have been an option to have the judge decide the case rather than a jury.

WBZ-TV's Penny Kmitt asked Reddington what Clancy had to say about potentially facing another trial.

"Generally, I don't talk about what I talk to clients about," Reddington said as he was swarmed by reporters and photographers on his way into court Wednesday morning. 

Woman accused of filming jurors

A woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon outside of the courthouse. Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, Massachusetts, is accused of filming jurors as they left court.

The retired nurse was arraigned Wednesday in Plymouth Superior Court on a charge of intimidation of jurors. A not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Her attorney said Light was trying to get a picture of Lindsay Clancy and didn't intend to record video of any jurors. She was released on a promise to return to court on Oct. 15.

According to Reddington, trial Judge William Sullivan asked the jury about Light's arrest before they started their deliberations Wednesday, but no further details were available.

If the jury convicts Clancy of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter, she will go to prison. If jurors find her not guilty by reason of insanity, she will be required to continue her stay at Tewksbury State Hospital, where her case will be reviewed periodically.

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Employment in the sector is projected to grow 9.5%, adding 2.2 million jobs, from 2025 to 2035, the Labor Department forecasts. That accounts for roughly 37% of all new U.S. jobs over that period, the agency estimates. 

The fastest-growing U.S. industry over the next decade is likely to be utilities, driven by growing demand for energy needed to power artificial intelligence. The Labor Department projects that sector will expand by 9.8% through 2035. But that growth is projected to add only 58,800 jobs over 10 years, given the modest size of the utilities sector. 

"Utilities support will help meet increased demand for electricity, including from data centers, but if you're thinking about what degree to pursue, you probably care about the number of jobs that will open up, and the greatest increase in the number of jobs will be in healthcare, for sure," Jed Kolko, an economist and the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Biden administration, told CBS News.

Growing demand for AI-based systems and tools, as well as research and development in the burgeoning AI space, is also expected to create nearly 927,000 jobs in the professional, scientific and technical services sector. 

"A lot of those nearly 1 million jobs relate to AI demand. It's your software developers, consultants and engineers," Breyon Williams, chief labor market economist at Groundwork Collaborative, an economic think tank and advocacy group, told CBS News. 

Yet while growing demand for AI is expected to boost employment in some sectors, it will reduce demand in administrative functions and at retailers, among other industries, according to economists. 

"It's not surprising that 752,000 administrative jobs, like office clerks, customer service reps and secretaries, are projected to be eliminated within the next 10 years," Williams said of the Labor Department's employment projections. "The story is mixed. There are some gains from AI demand coupled with losses in places where it's not surprising we'd see some drop-offs."

The use of AI could also limit demand for some jobs in the arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupational group, the Labor Department notes. 

Federal government jobs are expected to decline by 3.4% from 2025 to 2035.

Allen, a mother and grandmother, says she is the person that police won't acknowledge in a non-criminal injured person report from April 12 on Purington Avenue publicly.

"I was literally about to be inside," Allen said. "It just chose me."

According to Allen, she was trying to alert officers to an elderly neighbor's mental state when a Fort Worth police K-9 attacked her. Before she could complete that mission, her arms went up in the air, and the video shows a dog taking her to the ground.

"I was screaming for help," Allen said. "The officers couldn't even get him off. Even his handler was saying what they say to them, their commands, and he was not listening."

Her husband, Thomas Fisher, joined their son and officers trying to break the dog's grip.

"She's laying there bleeding," Fisher said, describing severe wounds to his wife's arms.

Allen remembers looking at the injuries.

"There's stuff all over me that are supposed to be inside of me," she said.

The 50-year-old was taken to the hospital with nine puncture wounds. She got 19 stitches, which made things worse. As soon as she left the hospital, Allen was back within days.

Attorney Blerim Elmazi says the family believes accountability begins with acknowledging what happened.

"What happens is wrong is wrong, mistakes are mistakes," Elmazi said. "And we expect officers and cities who are in the wrong to just admit it, right?"

Fort Worth has been lawful but silent. The department has refused to confirm why they were in Allen's neighborhood in the first place or share information about an arrest, if any.

Instead, CBS News Texas received redactions and documents proving that video footage of the incident exists. The department also denied a request to release the video to the public. Instead, it used what many law enforcement agencies shield behind Texas's Rule of Evidence to protect footage, documents, images, and other information from becoming public. Agencies send a lawful review to the Attorney General's Office, which tends to rule in law enforcement's favor even if the public has a right to know.

In a statement Wednesday, FWPD told CBS News Texas, "We are aware of the incident; however, we are unable to provide further comment at this time due to an ongoing administrative investigation." 

In Allen's case, the unredacted portion of an officer's report says, "The K-9 broke free" and "The K-9 bit." 

The victim is covered by black redactions on paper. In real life, Allen's pain from that cannot be covered up by evidentiary privileges. 

"I saw a flash of fur, and next thing I know I was on the ground," she said. 

The lawsuit, obtained by CBS News Texas, claims Smith worked with two other men – identified as David Mosley and Darrel Wilson – to obtain a $2.5 million loan from Kituwah, LLC, under the pretense of obtaining an interest in the project. Kituwah is an agency that invests in business opportunities for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. It is headquartered in Cherokee, North Carolina, located about 170 miles northwest of Charlotte.

What does Kituwah claim?

The suit claims Smith and Mosley obtained the money in 2023 by forming a joint venture between Kituwah and their own company, 4 13 Solutions, for the loan. Smith and Mosley allegedly further promised to transfer the interest in the solar farm project back to the joint venture and ultimately repay Kituwah's money.

Instead, Kituwah claims Smith and Mosley used the funds to improperly pay Wilson Holdings, a company owned by Wilson. Wilson's company had partnered with them before and, according to the suit, the payout was compensation for prior unsuccessful loans and investments that it made with 4 13 Holdings. All the while, the suit claims Smith and Mosley told Kituwah they were using Kituwah's loan properly.

Further, the suit claims Smith and Mosley pressured Kituwah into granting the loan by inventing false offers from other investors and claiming that the company they were seeking to invest in was ready to walk away.

Kituwah's lawsuit further claims that those false offers led it to form a new limited liability company, incorporated in Delaware, called Jabez 4 10. The company was formed together with 4 13 Solutions and Wilson Holdings. The loan's funds were directed to Jabez.

However, Kituwah claims 4 13 Solutions had sole access to and total control over Jabez's accounts through Smith and Mosely, and that the pair took the proceeds, claiming the money would be used to convey the ownership interests in the solar farm project. Instead, Kituwah claims 4 13 Solutions stopped participating in Jabez and abandoned promised efforts to obtain a loan from the Department of Energy to provide permanent financing.

The promised solar farm, however, never materialized by the end of 2024, according to the suit. 4 13 Solutions also allegedly had not made any progress in acquiring the rights for the project.

Has any money been repaid?

Kituwah's suit claims the loan was due on Feb. 1, 2024, and that notices were sent to Jabez and 4 13 Solutions. A response was allegedly never provided; Kituwah claims its repayment demands were simply ignored. This prompted Kituwah to investigate, which found that "4 13 Solutions' representations were part of Smith's and Mosley's scheme to cheat Kituwah out of $2.5 million," likening it to a Ponzi scheme.

Kituwah's suit further claims that a letter from Darrel Wilson admitted that Jabez had promised to pay his company $2.5 million once the solar farm project secured "permanent financing." However, the company claims Wilson also admitted in that letter that the repayment condition never happened. Kituwah also alleges that Wilson admitted he didn't know what triggered the payment.

What does Kituwah want?

Kituwah's suit says it wants to take the case to trial. The company wants the $2.5 million back, plus interest, costs, and expenses, along with anything else determined at the trial. It also wants Smith, Mosley, and Wilson to pay its attorney's fees, costs, and expenses incurred in the investigation and in bringing the issue to court, along with any other relief the court deems proper.

CBS News Texas is working to reach out to Smith for comment.

But the cloud is not some abstract place in the sky.

It's inside machines running 24/7 from thousands of windowless buildings across the country, what we call data centers. 

Depending on how they're counted, there are more than 3,000 operating data centers in the United States, with hundreds more under construction or planned, especially in places like Texas and Virginia.

And that has people upset.

A May 2026 Gallup poll found seven in 10 Americans oppose constructing data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area.

But the question is not just whether data centers are good or bad. The better questions are: Who benefits from them? Who has to pay for them? And who gets stuck living next door?

What is a data center?

Simply put, data centers are massive warehouses that house thousands of computer servers.

Near Amarillo, developers have proposed a roughly 5,800-acre AI and data center campus, an area of about 9 square miles.

Data centers are not new. We've had computer rooms and data processing centers for decades.

What is new is what we're asking them to do. For years, data centers were primarily used to store and process information. AI dramatically expanded those demands.

We are now asking computers to predict, translate languages, write code, generate images and video, and perform increasingly complex AI tasks. And all that takes a lot of computing, which means a lot of electricity.

Can the Texas power grid keep up with data center electricity demand?

According to Goldman Sachs Research, U.S. data center power demand is forecasted to more than double from 31 gigawatts in 2025 to 66 gigawatts in 2027.

For context, that's roughly enough electricity to power tens of millions of American homes.

Texas is expected to be one of the nation's largest sources of new data center power demand. The growth is fueling debate in a state where the devastating 2021 winter storm raised lasting questions about the grid's ability to meet future demand.

Now, with AI driving a surge in data center development, those questions are resurfacing. Yet some analysts say Texas may be better positioned than many other states because significant amounts of new generation are expected to come online in the coming years.

Think of the power grid as a highway. Data centers add new traffic. In some regions, that traffic could strain the grid. In Texas, planners are counting on new generating capacity to add lanes to the system and help accommodate the growth.

But some say those extra lanes may not be a good thing, because some of those new lanes may be power plants fueled by natural gas.

The Environmental Integrity Project, a nonprofit environmental watchdog group, says at least 74 natural gas-fired power plants are proposed nationwide to supply electricity directly to data centers. Thirty-two are planned in Texas, and the organization estimates they could emit more than 287 million tons of greenhouse gases annually if built and operated at maximum capacity. That's the same as adding 61 million more gas-powered cars to the road.

However, not every proposed power plant will be built, and they will not all run at maximum capacity all the time.

Plus, companies and some policymakers say that if data centers build their own power and grid upgrades, regular customers do not have to pay for those costs.

Does Texas have enough water to supply all these data centers? 

The concerns over data centers do not stop at electricity; water is a worry, too.

Imagine someone tells you a new industry is moving into Texas, and you ask how much water it will need. A 2026 analysis by the Houston Advanced Research Center estimates data centers could consume anywhere from 29 billion to 161 billion gallons of water a year by 2030. Two very different figures.

But studies say that gap exists because water use varies dramatically depending on the cooling technology, local climate and energy source. An efficient cooling system can significantly reduce water use, while water-intensive cooling systems can increase it.

Energy sources matter, too: wind and solar generally require less water than power generated by natural gas plants, which typically need additional cooling water.

And when it comes to water, context matters. 

Nationwide, researchers estimate data centers are responsible for roughly 228 billion gallons of water consumption annually when both on-site cooling and the water used to generate their electricity are included.

That's a lot. But for comparison, golf courses use an estimated 531 billion gallons of water each year, leaking water pipes account for roughly 900 billion gallons, and residential toilets use about 1.3 trillion gallons annually.

The data center industry points to those comparisons when arguing that its water use remains relatively small. And even the higher estimate from the Houston Advanced Research Center, 161 billion gallons annually in Texas by 2030, would amount to about 2.7% of the state's total yearly water use.

But water is not distributed evenly across Texas. Data center impacts are concentrated in the communities where facilities are built, making local water supplies far more important than statewide averages.

So the real question is where do we put them?

Who has to live next door to data centers?

In Texas, most data centers are built in rural communities where land is cheap, there is access to big power infrastructure and where there are fewer zoning restrictions. But many of these communities don't want them. In Hood County, Texas, just west of Fort Worth, residents have been fighting multiple proposed data center projects.

For families, it's not just about the abstract. It's about what's happening on the other side of their fence. It's about protecting the water that supplies their streams and that they need for their livestock.

As demand for AI grows, data centers are becoming a larger part of everyday life, turning questions about electricity, water, and land use into debates playing out in communities across Texas and the nation.

The Change.org petition, which had more than 2,000 signatures as of Wednesday morning, claims that social media activity from Cheryl Bean is "inconsistent with the responsibilities of the Chair of a public charter school board." Bean is the chair of the Texas Center for Arts + Academics board, which operates the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts and Texas School of the Arts.

In addition to her role on the TCAA board, Bean is running for a seat in the Texas House of Representatives as a Republican. Her campaign Facebook page, Cheryl Bean for Texas, posts multiple times per day, frequently offering prayers, touting endorsements and commenting on the issues of the day.

Some of the posts shared by the account, however, have drawn scrutiny. They include a political cartoon that invokes racist stereotypes against Democratic U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who is Black. Another political cartoon depicts New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, as an airplane flying into the World Trade Center. The account also shared right-wing memes targeting Hispanics and Muslims.

Another recent post that drew heavy scrutiny from Bean's critics contained an AI-generated image depicting WNBA player Sophie Cunningham as George Washington crossing the Delaware River, while her Indiana Fever teammates paddle the boat. Cunningham has recently been at the center of controversy over her stance on transgender women in sports. Of note, all of the Black players are depicted wearing children's' floaties, while her White teammates are not.

According to the petition, school administrators acknowledged the post in a message to families, and Bean deleted it. 

"The original intent was to show female athletes standing strong against unsportsmanlike conduct in a humorous way ... nothing more. My team and I did not see the floaties in the picture and would never have posted it if we had. I believe racism in any form has no place in our society and regret our unintentional oversight," Bean said in a message sent to school families.

The petition writers said they acknowledged Bean's statement and removal of the Sophie Cunningham post, "the concerns extend beyond a single image."

"When the individual serving as Board Chair publicly shares or amplifies content that many members of the community reasonably perceive as discriminatory or demeaning toward protected groups, confidence in the Board's ability to provide fair, inclusive, and ethical leadership is compromised," the petition says.

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, about 20 students and parents joined a rally before the TCAA board's meeting on Monday night. Inside the meeting, speakers defending and opposing Bean both spoke during the public comment portion. A Star-Telegram reporter spoke with Bean after the meeting, who said she regretted the Sophie Cunningham post but would not step down.

As of publication time, neither Bean nor TCAA had responded to a request for comment from CBS News Texas.

The shortfall is the result of a decision by the Trump administration to withhold approval from Texas for about $9.8 billion in the next year from three programs, the bulk of which affects the Comprehensive Hospital Increase Reimbursement Program (CHIRP).

This program gives hospitals additional funding to cover the difference between Medicaid rate payments and the actual costs that hospitals incur to provide services to Medicaid patients. Essentially, hospitals, which often are paid less than what they spend on Medicaid patients due to outdated payment rates set by the state, are losing out on their additional reimbursement for 2027.

Local governmental entities collect taxes from hospitals - about $4 billion a year, according to the Texas Hospital Association - and under CHIRP, the federal government matches those funds so that Texas hospitals can then use them to cover the actual costs of providing Medicaid services. Hospitals say those CHIRP dollars are critical and if they lose that funding, they will likely have to cut services to patients.

Four million low-income Texans are enrolled in Medicaid, most of them children.

"It is impossible for a hospital to take a huge loss on a Medicaid side of their portfolio and not have that impact services across the board, regardless of what type of insurance a patient has," said Sara González, a THA vice president of advocacy, public policy and political strategy.

In Houston alone, the impact could mean at least $258 million less for the public healthcare system there known as Harris Health and as much as $1.4 billion less for the region overall next year.

"The impacts would be catastrophic for Texas' safety-net healthcare system," said Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, president and CEO of Harris Health. "We are carefully monitoring every dollar and would be forced to make difficult decisions about maintaining critical services if this impasse continues."

The federal government is withholding these critical dollars because they are calling into question how local jurisdictions in Texas calculate the amount of taxes collected from hospitals.

Robert Fries, the chief financial officer for Children's Health in Dallas said in a statement that this type of funding is crucial for children's hospitals like Children's Medical Center. "Delays and uncertainty threaten access to critical pediatric specialty care, behavioral health services and the workforce needed to deliver that care," Fries said. "If these delays continue, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain the health care safety net that Texas children and families depend on every day."

The impasse, which began quietly last December, has escalated to such an extent that Gov. Greg Abbott sent a pointed letter Aug. 7 to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he stated that there's nothing wrong with the way Texas hospitals' local taxes are collected.

In it, Abbott refers to the funding holdup as an economic "gun to the head."

"The tax structure previously enacted by the Texas Legislature, and being implemented daily by local governments, fully complies with federal law," Abbott said in the letter. "What CMS is requesting does not."

If the federal government insisted that Texas must restructure the way local governments tax hospitals, the federal government must first guarantee Texas would not be penalized in the future for doing so, Abbott said.

"Any voluntary change that the State makes should be understood as the product of a desire to work collaboratively with CMS and not as any kind of admission about a legal defect in Texas' broad-based healthcare-related taxes," Abbott wrote, adding that the state estimates the anticipated loss could be as much as $12 billion in 2027.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which administers the Medicaid program, and the governor's office did not offer any comment by Monday regarding the nearly $10 billion loss or if the parties are closer to resolving it. Even if a new agreement between Texas and the federal government were struck by Tuesday, the anticipated funding would be delayed for months, THA officials said.

"Even if we get an approval soon, there will be a claims backlog that takes at least 90 days to clear. And the bigger the claims backlog, the longer it takes to catch up," Anna Stelter, the THA's vice president of policy, said.

According to the THA, when H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, passed a year ago, it included $900 billion in nationwide cuts to Medicaid funding by 2034. The OBBBA effectively froze Texas' taxing structure for hospitals, a provision of the legislation that Congress implemented to allow states that did not expand Medicaid to maintain the status quo - and not to create a sudden cutoff of additional funding that hospitals, rural clinics and hospital-affiliated providers use to keep existing services, Stelter said.

Many Texas officials had believed the state was shielded from the bill's major funding cuts and stricter regulations because it was one of the few states that did not expand Medicaid. Texas, Florida and eight others have refused to expand Medicaid health insurance coverage to more people, something the Affordable Care Act has allowed since 2013. Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service estimates Texas loses more than $5 billion in new federal funding each year because it opted out of expanding Medicaid coverage.

Under the OBBBA, those Medicaid-expansion states face stricter work requirements for working-age Medicaid recipients that will go into effect in January.

Despite its refusal to expand, Texas, like Florida, now has questions from the federal government about how hospitals pay taxes. Florida was able to resolve its delay in additional Medicaid funding but only after 11 months. According to HHSC's website, there's been an exhausting 11 rounds of back and forth questions between CMS and HHSC about how locals tax hospitals.

In the latest round of questions, high on CMS' list was assurances from Texas that none of the nearly $10 million would pay for non-citizen healthcare. "The state confirms and assures CMS that the state directed payment does not include, nor direct plans to make, payments to providers for costs or utilization for individuals who have not demonstrated satisfactory immigration status," HHSC stated on Aug. 17.

This is not the first time Texas has fought to keep this additional funding. Before the OBBBA passed, Texas had successfully won its legal fights with CMS over the funding in 2023.

Carrie Kroll, THA's senior vice president of advocacy and public policy, noted hospitals are very aware that there's no extra state funding to offset this federal funding hit.

"I think that we... are under no assumption that there is a large amount of money in GR (general revenue) ready to save us from the situation," she said.

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The golf legend agreed to a five-year suspension of his driver's license and a $1,000 fine. He was seen smiling during the hearing at Martin County Courthouse on Wednesday. 

Woods previously pled not guilty to charges of DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test. 

A plea of no contest means a defendant refuses to admit or deny guilt, but accepts punishment. 

Woods was in a rollover crash on Florida's Jupiter Island in March. Woods' Land Rover clipped a truck and rolled onto its side in the incident, officials said. An arrest report said he was traveling at high speeds on a beachside residential road with a 30 mph speed limit. The report also said Woods caused $5,000 in damage to the truck he hit. 

Woods was uninjured and told a deputy he had been looking down at his phone and changing the radio station at the time of the collision, according to the report. Deputies at the scene said Woods appeared impaired. While he agreed to a Breathalyzer test that registered zero alcohol, he refused to submit to a urine test. He also told police he had taken "a few" prescription medications, according to the arrest report, and two pills later identified as the opioid hydrocodone were found in his pants pocket. 

State attorney for Florida's 19th Judicial Circuit Thomas Bakkedahl said Wednesday, "at the end of the day, this case turned out to be a particularly difficult DUI to prove." 

Proving impairment from drugs, not alcohol, is difficult, Bakkedahl said. The lack of a urine test meant officials "don't know what exactly was in his bloodstream" at the time of the accident, Bakkedahl said. Woods' defense would have also been able to provide explanations for behaviors like difficulty walking, Bakkedahl said, citing past injuries Woods had sustained. While Woods admitted to taking painkillers, records showed they were prescribed medications and that the golfer was taking them as instructed, Bakkedahl said. 

Two forensic toxicologists who were asked to review the case said they believed there was "insufficient proof" of Woods' impairment, Bakkedahl said. The toxicologists said Woods likely had a tolerance to hydrocodone, so he was not impaired by its use, leaving prosecutors unable to prove a DUI, Bakkedahl said. 

These combined factors meant prosecutors could not meet the burden of proof for a DUI, Bakkedahl said. That led to the decision to drop the DUI charge and replace it with a charge of reckless driving, which Woods pleaded no contest to. 

Woods, 50, is considered one of the most influential figures in golf. In 1997, he became the first person of Black heritage to win the Masters. But while he has broken records, his career has been marred by car accidents, a pain pill dependence and multiple back and knee surgeries. 

In 2021, Woods survived a crash in Los Angeles that injured his right leg so badly that he said doctors considered amputating the limb. In 2017, he was arrested on a DUI charge when Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel of his car. After the incident, he said he had taken a bad mix of painkillers. In 2009, his SUV plowed into a fire hydrant and tree outside his home near Orlando, Florida.

Woods said after the incident that he was "stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment" and "work toward lasting recovery." He made his first public appearance after treatment in June, when he introduced the PGA Tour's plans to revamp its schedule for 2028. 

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that Woods pleaded no contest.

The digital mapping company is now the top free app in the Apple App Store after declining to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America," despite President Trump signing an executive order last week to change its name.

"The surge follows MapQuest's decision to keep the historical, familiar names for lakes and gulfs on its maps," the company said Monday in a press release.

ChatGPT is the second-most downloaded free app on Apple.

MapQuest disclosed its decision on social media on Aug. 27, posting "We're not changing it," the same day Mr. Trump signed the order directing the name change.

"We are aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map," the company later posted. MapQuest also launched a tool that allows people to create their own name for the lake. 

MapQuest said Monday that hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the app since the company announced it would keep the name Lake Ontario. Usage of the app is also running roughly 50 times its normal rate, the company said.

"We took the same approach we did with the Gulf of Mexico: be part of the conversation, and give people an app that keeps the names they're familiar with," Doug Berger, general manager of MapQuest, said in a statement on Monday. "Hundreds of thousands of people signaled to us this weekend that we got it right, by downloading our app."

Mr. Trump ordered the name change for Lake Ontario last week as the U.S. and Canada clashed over trade issues. The countries mutually imposed 50% tariffs on some imports after failing to reach a deal.

"Canada has been a bad neighbor by ripping off our country for years," Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in an email to CBS News. "President Trump promised voters that he would not allow our country to be taken advantage of anymore, which is why he is fighting so hard to protect American industries and workers. Thanks to the President's bold leadership, we are putting America back on the map."

The White House didn't address whether MapQuest's decision not to change Lake Ontario's name violates Mr. Trump's executive order.

Denver-based MapQuest was launched in 1996 and was one of the first mapping services. It provided step-by-step navigation instructions, which many printed out to take with them on their car rides before GPS became more ubiquitous. 

Google, Apple change their maps

While MapQuest stood its ground, other navigation services moved to make changes.

Google Maps announced over the weekend that it was updating its maps to reflect Mr. Trump's new name for Lake Ontario, which straddles the border between New York and the Canadian province of Ontario. A search for "Lake Ontario" on Google now directs people to "Lake America." 

Both Apple's web version of its map and its phone app also have changed Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Apple did not respond to a request for comment. The tech giant told Reuters that U.S. users will see Lake America on its map, while users in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario. Users in the rest of the world will see both names.

While the metroplex stays mainly dry, with just a slim chance of showers, areas to the south and east, including Palestine, will be rather wet.

Tropical Depression Edouard continues to move northward and will bring rain, with potential for flooding south and east. A flood watch is in place for Anderson and Freestone counties through Thursday afternoon. At least 1" to 4" inches of rain will be possible.

By Thursday morning, some showers will make their way into North Texas. Expect the chance for a wet morning commute in portions of our area, with better chances east and southeast. With the additional cloud cover and rain potential, temperatures will be in the lower 90s – a nice treat.

Looking ahead to the rest of the week, temperatures will heat back up to this weekend with the triple digits returning on Labor Day. 

David Thomas Gilchrist, 70, was taken into custody on Monday on federal charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and witness tampering, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas.

Gilchrist, who prosecutors allege defrauded investors through purported investments in Texas property tax liens, is expected to make his initial federal court appearance on Wednesday.

Investigators say Gilchrist, from April 2023 through January 2026, collected about $1.45 million from investors and returned approximately $789,000.

"He didn't just defraud innocent people out of their savings; he allegedly forged documents, lied to federal regulators, and tried to intimidate witnesses to cover his tracks," U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould said.

"Attorneys play a vital role in the SEC's investor protection mission," said SEC Inspector General Kevin Muhlendorf. "Where any individual, but especially an attorney, seeks to obstruct SEC Enforcement investigations through lies, fake documents, or witness tampering, SEC OIG will use our law enforcement authority to pursue them with our partners at the Department of Justice."

Prosecutors allege he did not use the money to buy tax liens as promised, but instead commingled investor funds with other money, which he used for personal expenses and to repay earlier investors, conduct prosecutors described as having classic features of a Ponzi scheme.

When the SEC began investigating, Gilchrist allegedly submitted forged quitclaim deeds containing the signatures and stamps of real Texas notaries who had not authorized their use.

They say Gilchrist placed a woman he barely knew at the center of the alleged fraudulent operation and, days before his SEC testimony, went to her home, told her husband the FBI was looking for him, and advised the couple to flee the country for a couple of years, potentially in Mexico.

Gilchrist allegedly gave investors a series of excuses for delayed payments, including a government shutdown, an arson investigation, and a hurricane-relief deployment.

In one instance, he allegedly said he was hospitalized in Tennessee after a colectomy, while records showed him checking into a gym in Mansfield.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on each wire fraud and witness tampering charge, plus a mandatory consecutive two-year sentence for aggravated identity theft.

The SEC's Chicago Regional Office has separately filed a civil securities-fraud case against him.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Inspector General is investigating the case with help from the U.S. Marshals Service, and federal prosecutors are handling the prosecution.

CBS News Texas will provide updates as more information becomes available.

Edouard had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph Wednesday morning, decreasing from about 60 mph when it made landfall near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana, close to the border with Texas, on Tuesday afternoon, the hurricane center said.

Maps show storm's path and forecast

Flood watches remained in effect Wednesday morning for portions of eastern Texas and its Gulf Coast. A tropical storm warning that had been issued for a stretch of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana has been discontinued.

The depression was moving toward the northwest at about 5 mph on Wednesday morning, on a trajectory that forecasters said would likely persist for the next day or so as it travels inland over southeastern and eastern Texas.

Strong thunderstorms were expected to bring powerful wind gusts and dump heavy rain, with 4 to 8 inches possible along the Texas coast and inland. Some areas could get up to 12 inches. 

Another 2 to 4 inches of rain could fall in parts of southwestern Louisiana.

The hurricane center warned that "significant flash flooding," as well as river flooding, was possible as a result of the rain, "especially in low-lying and urban areas."

Texas, Louisiana residents ride out the storm

As Edouard stormed ashore along the Texas-Louisiana border, many residents decided to stay put and ride out the storm, but some chose to seek shelter elsewhere.

"You can't stay in a travel trailer, an RV, because the wind gusts can knock you over," Karen Cauthen, a Port Arthur, Texas, resident, told CBS News. "It doesn't make sense to me."

Edouard's winds also whipped at homes in Holly Beach, Louisiana, an area that has taken a beating from several tropical storms over the last few years.

Edouard is the fifth tropical storm so far during the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season.

The Dallas Wings star wants to be clear, though. This FIBA World Cup — not to mention any Olympic or other international event that might follow — isn't some sort of entitlement.

"We don't take it for granted and think we're entitled to it just because we feel like it's our time now," Bueckers said. "We had to earn it, we had work for it and we're all extremely grateful for that. We've been competing with and against each other our whole lives, and something that I admire is their work ethic and what it took to get here."

Team USA begins pursuit of a fifth consecutive World Cup title against China on Friday in Berlin in the first of three games in group play. The WNBA is taking a nearly three-week break to accommodate the tournament.

For Bueckers, Indiana's Clark and Atlanta's Reese, it means putting aside thoughts of the looming WNBA playoffs to start what each would hope is a long international career. They were together when the U.S. won a World Cup qualifier in Puerto Rico in March.

Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi have both moved on after becoming the first to win five Olympic gold medals, with Taurasi adding a sixth in Paris two years ago. Bird had a role in picking a team that includes another first-timer in Clark's Fever teammate, Aliyah Boston.

Leaning a little more on youth

A'ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum will miss the World Cup for health reasons, meaning the U.S. will lean a little bit more on a youthful group. Only three players are in their 30s — Las Vegas guard Chelsea Gray at 33 and a pair of 32-year-olds in Breanna Stewart of New York and Kahleah Copper of Phoenix.

Bueckers, Clark, Reese and Boston are 24. And while there are plenty of other stars the U.S. could have chosen — U.S. team veteran Sabrina Ionescu of the Liberty was left off this roster — it's easy to see the four headliners one day matching the longevity of Bird and Taurasi.

"Anytime you wear USA across your chest, it's a tremendous honor," Clark said. "And to be surrounded by so many great players, some of which have already won Olympic gold medals, some have been on the World Cup team before. And I get to share it with (Boston), too, so it's pretty cool and pretty fun, and I'm excited about it."

Bueckers is the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year who will soon get her first shot at the WNBA playoffs. Clark's Fever have made the postseason each of her three years, although she missed most of last season with a groin injury.

Reese, who was traded by Chicago before the season, is on her way to leading the WNBA in rebounding for the third time in her three years.

It's time for 'the shift'

Boston, Clark and Bueckers were the No. 1 overall picks in consecutive seasons, while Reese went seventh when Clark was the top pick in 2024. It sure seemed like just a matter of time before this happened with the national team.

"It shows the shift, right?" said Indiana coach Stephanie White, who is on the U.S. staff. "There was a time when Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi were those young ones. There was a time when Tamika Catchings was one of the young ones. And you start to see that shift. And then they become the next generation of hopefully multi-time Olympians. The game couldn't be in better hands with those guys."

Reese's Atlanta teammate, Rhyne Howard, is another first-timer. Washington's Sonia Citron, one of the injury replacements, is the youngest at 22 and making her national team debut. The other replacement, Citron teammate Kiki Iriafen, also was with Bueckers, Clark and Reese for the World Cup qualifier.

Taurasi was 42 when she made her final appearance in Paris. Brittney Griner, who is sidelined by a knee injury, will be 37 during the Los Angeles Olympics in two years.

Wilson figures to have a long international career as the next Griner, while Bueckers and Clark certainly look the part as the next Bird-Taurasi set.

"After the Olympics in '24, now this is the changing of the guard where all this young influx of talent into the WNBA, it's now their time in USA Basketball," said Wings general manager Curt Miller, who has spent time on the Team USA staff. "And there's great players coming behind them. So it's a really fun era, and they will carry the torch of the dynasty moving forward."

The dream becomes reality

Boston and Bueckers couldn't pinpoint a memory of watching the U.S. Olympic team growing up. But they remember dreaming of it, and watching.

"I just remember USA would always win and they would win by a pretty large margin and gradually as the years went on, the margin of victory closed," Bueckers said. "The level of competition is getting a lot better and even starting with the (2024) Olympics, how close France was and how talented that team is."

Opponents likely will never match the depth of talent in the U.S., which is one of several reasons Bueckers will never presume to believe this is the first of many top-tier international tournaments for her.

"I talked about four-time, five-time, six-time Olympians and obviously they can't play forever, but that doesn't mean we're guaranteed a spot and it's an automatic lock that just because we're young and we're up and coming, that we're going to get that," Bueckers said. "Whether you made the team or not, play like you're trying to earn your spot, earn your minutes."

The Wings (23-16), headed to the playoffs for the first time since 2023, set a franchise record for regular-season wins with five games remaining.

Arike Ogunbowale finished with 17 points, Awak Kuier had 12 points, 12 rebounds, and five blocks, and Alanna Smith scored 10 as all five Dallas starters scored in double figures. Bueckers, coming off a 32-point performance Sunday, had her 23rd 20-point game of the season.

Bridget Carleton and Karlie Samuelson each scored 14 points for Portland (15-23). Emily Engstler had 12 points and a career-high 15 rebounds.

Bueckers' steal and pass to Ogunbowale for a wide-open 3-pointer extended Dallas' lead to 84-60 midway through the fourth quarter. Bueckers and Ogunbowale each made three of Dallas' 11 3-pointers.

Portland trailed by as many as 26 points and never led. 

Fire: At Atlanta on Friday.

Wings: Host Connecticut on Sunday.

The House adopted the resolution in a 220 to 192 to 2 vote, with eight Democrats voting with all Republicans in favor. Two Democrats voted present.

The Democrats who supported the resolution included Reps. Kathy Castor of Florida, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Don Davis of North Carolina, Jared Golden of Maine, Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, Darren Soto of Florida and Gabe Vasquez of New Mexico. Those who voted present were Reps. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire. 

GOP leaders scheduled the vote after Democratic primary voters embraced a number of democratic socialist candidates. Republicans connected those wins to their own push to pass President Trump's signature voting regulations bill, the SAVE America Act. The resolution also reaffirms their support for the legislation that has been stalled for months in the Senate, where it lacks even a simple majority support. 

"Not only do we denounce socialism, but also the idea of people that aren't American citizens voting in our elections, because that's part of their platform," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday of the Democratic Socialists of America. 

A small handful of congressional Democrats identify as democratic socialists, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, though several candidates aligned with the movement have won primaries in recent months, with Darializa Avila Chevalier of New York and Melat Kiros of Colorado defeating incumbent Democrats.

The vote nearly didn't come to fruition as a handful of Republican hardliners voted "no" in a party-line procedural vote earlier Tuesday to tee up the resolution and other related measures for final passage. The protest votes stemmed from their issues with a short-term government funding bill. 

But two moderate Democrats — Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez — defected and helped the procedural vote succeed, putting some of their Democratic colleagues in a politically tricky situation. 

House Democratic leadership condemned Golden and Gluesenkamp Perez's decision later Tuesday.

"The decision by two of our colleagues to blindside the entire House Democratic Caucus and join with the Republican majority to pass a procedural rule on the brink of failing represents a significant breach of trust. It is an action that necessitates a serious response, and we have asked the Committee on Caucus Rules to take this up in short order," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a joint statement with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark and Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar.

Aguilar noted prior to the vote that some Democrats have put forth a separate resolution on condemning socialism that removes the statement of support for the SAVE America Act. 

"We're capitalists. We believe in a capitalist system and rules and laws," the California lawmaker said Tuesday morning. "But what Republicans are seeking to do here is to just add in another talking point where they can talk about the SAVE Act." 

In a statement ahead of the vote, Jeffries said he would vote against the resolution because of the SAVE America Act inclusion. 

"House Republicans continue to desperately push toxic voter suppression legislation instead of working to make life more affordable for everyday Americans in the midst of a searing cost-of-living crisis. House Resolution 1490 explicitly calls for enactment of the so-called SAVE America Act, which is the top legislative priority of far-right extremists," the New York Democrat said. 

In a statement shared on Instagram, the longtime Dallas Cowboys quarterback and CBS Sports football analyst said he is focusing on his return to the network with the plea's entry. Romo also said he came to rely on alcohol after several back surgeries saw him first depend on pain medication, before using it to get off the medicine.

"As I have taught my three young sons: when you fall short, you stand up and take full responsibility," part of the statement read, shared as an image. "That is an important first step. The harder and more important step is examining the path that brought you here and making the changes necessary moving forward."

Romo said he is working with a team of doctors to make changes and maintain his health. He also expressed gratitude for the support from family, friends, and the NFL community, while asking for privacy for a time.

The post was met with supportive comments.

A court order reviewed by CBS News Texas says that as part of the no-contest plea, Romo has lost his driving privileges for six months and that he must complete an alcohol assessment program. He will also need to have an ignition interlock device installed on any vehicle he owns or operates for at least a year after he re-obtains a license, and Romo further owes $834 of forfeiture to be paid by Nov. 2.

Why was Tony Romo pulled over?

Romo was pulled over on July 27, driving southbound on I-43 near downtown Milwaukee, according to an arrest report. The report said he performed poorly on a field sobriety test, so deputies took him into custody on suspicion of OWI, or operating while intoxicated.

The video shows Romo being pulled over, getting out of the Jeep he was driving and later undergoing field sobriety tests.

He was booked at the Milwaukee County Jail and released around 11 p.m.

Just days ago, Romo was hit with three more charges. Court records showed the new citations were for unsafe passing on the right, possessing open intoxicants and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to Milwaukee County court records that were filed Thursday. The initial citation he received in July was for refusing to take a test for intoxication.

When will Tony Romo return to CBS Sports?

As of publication, a timeline for Romo's return to the broadcast booth is not clear. In August, CBS Sports president David Berson said he does not have a timeline for a decision about Tony Romo's future.

"It's an evolving situation, and therefore we're still assessing," Berson said during a network event.

Berson also told reporters the decision to place Romo on indefinite leave was intended to shift attention toward the games and away from his legal situation.

"We had to consider the impact on our image and on our brand. That's very important to us. Whether the games, marketing, PR, social, the focus should and needs to be on our presentation and not on any other factors," he said.

JJ Watt, a longtime defensive end who spent much of his career with the Houston Texans, joined play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson on CBS Sports' lead NFL team during Romo's absence. Their first game will be on Sept. 13, when the Minnesota Vikings host the Green Bay Packers.

Watt joined CBS in 2023. He was an analyst on "The NFL Today" for two seasons before teaming with Ian Eagle on the network's No. 2 crew beginning last season. Ross Tucker has been moved up to the No. 2 team. He has previously teamed with Eagle on radio broadcasts for Westwood One.

Romo, 46, has been the lead game analyst for CBS' NFL coverage since 2017 after making four Pro Bowl appearances during a playing career that ran from 2004-16 and was spent entirely with Dallas.  

"One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves," Mr. Trump wrote on social media Sunday, saying "the 'topping out' process will begin very shortly, and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States."

The plan could face hurdles, energy experts say. The oil produced in Venezuela is far heavier than most of the crude in U.S. reserves and would need to be converted. And rebuilding Venezuela's ailing oil industry could take years, requiring oil producers to invest billions while navigating the country's still-uncertain political and legal landscape.

"This project is very unlikely to produce new investment and new production anytime soon," said David Goldwyn, a former federal energy official who serves as president of the consulting firm Goldwyn Global Strategies and chairs the Atlantic Council's energy advisory group. He predicted the U.S. is "at least two years, if not five to seven years at best, away from seeing that production reach the SPR, directly or indirectly."

What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?

Established in the 1970s, after an oil embargo by Arab states choked off shipments to the U.S., the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has room for more than 700 million barrels of oil across a series of massive underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana.

But currently, the reserve holds just under 290 million barrels, its lowest level since the 1980s.

Mr. Trump has blamed the shortfall on the Biden administration, which released more than 200 million barrels of oil from the reserve in an effort to tamp down energy prices, especially in the early days of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Trump administration has taken similar action to deal with the effects of the Iran war, pumping out over 100 million barrels in recent months.

The Department of Energy said in March it was planning to put 200 million barrels of oil back into the reserve within a year in order to make up for the Iran war-related drawdowns.

Then, last week, Mr. Trump announced the federal government struck a deal with Venezuela to take majority control of 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves. The plan marks the Trump administration's most significant step to lure new investment to the Venezuelan oil industry since the U.S. military removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power in January.

The White House has said the Pentagon will take a 35% equity stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, or NABEP, a private oil company that was granted concessions by the Venezuelan government to develop the oil fields. 

As part of the arrangement, according to the White House, the U.S. will have the right to buy 20% of the oil drilled by the venture at the cost of production, "ensuring a stable supply of low-cost oil that can facilitate refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve."

Venezuelan heavy crude is "physically and chemically incompatible" with Strategic Petroleum Reserve

The crude oil that is typically stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is very different from the stuff that is typically drilled out of Venezuela.

Most of the crude from Venezuela's oil-rich Orinoco Belt is very heavy, compared to the lighter oil that is drilled in places like Texas, which makes transporting it and refining it into products like gasoline a more difficult endeavor. Oil producers often need to mix Venezuela's crude with other petroleum products so it can flow through pipelines.

Most of the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, by comparison, is lighter.

"The kind of crude that [is] produced in Venezuela, which is very heavy, doesn't meet the specifications of the crude that is stored in the caverns," said Daniel Sternoff, a senior fellow at Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy and analyst at Energy Aspects.

Siddharth Misra, an engineering professor at Texas A&M University and chief technology officer of AlterNature LLC, told CBS News dense oil could pose technical challenges for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and would be difficult to extract from the caverns. It could be stored in the reserve if it were processed into a lighter product or carefully blended down, he said.

"Venezuelan extra-heavy crude is physically and chemically incompatible with the operating design of the SPR," Misra said in an email.

In the past, the Department of Energy has considered storing heavier crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to serve refineries on the Gulf Coast, many of which are designed to take dense imported oil. The department did not take that step, with one Government Accountability Office report citing the need to upgrade the reserve's infrastructure and the fact that stocking the caverns with heavy oil would make it harder to respond to shortfalls of light oil.

"DOE has analyzed heavy oil storage and found that the costs outweigh the benefits and storing heavy oil would present considerable operational difficulties," the Department of Energy said in a 2016 report to Congress. "The current inventory mix provides DOE with fungible crudes that maximize the flexibility of the Reserve in a crisis."

The department did store heavier Mexican crude oil in the 1980s and 1990s, but found that the need to keep it separate "had the effect of reducing the site's operational flexibility, efficiency, and drawdown capability during an energy emergency." It was later swapped for lighter crude.

Instead of pumping dense Venezuelan oil directly into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the federal government could essentially trade it for lighter oil that can be more easily stored in the caverns, Goldwyn and Misra said.

"While physically conditioning Venezuelan crude for static storage is technically possible, the most economically powerful way to execute the administration's plan is through an energy value exchange," Misra said. The oil from Venezuela could be sent to Gulf Coast refineries and sold, with the proceeds used to buy lighter crude, in what Misra called a "molecular swap."

Asked for comment on the administration's plans, the White House referred CBS News to Mr. Trump's Truth Social post and to a White House fact sheet on the Venezuela deal.

Rebuilding Venezuela's oil industry could take years

Many energy analysts believe the plan to push up Venezuelan oil production will take several years to translate to higher supply or lower prices stateside.

While Venezuela has the world's largest proven reserves, its oil industry has languished from decades of underinvestment and tight sanctions, and many large oil companies left the country when former President Hugo Chávez nationalized their assets almost 20 years ago. 

Chevron is the only major U.S. oil company that continues to do business in the country. Other companies that left under Chávez have been slow to return, with ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods saying in a January event at the White House: "We've had our assets seized there twice. … To reenter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we've historically seen here and what is currently the state."

Goldwyn told CBS News it could take five to seven years to develop many of the Orinoco Belt oil fields that were included in last week's deal. Other previously active fields could be rehabilitated in a year and a half.

Building out the Orinoco Belt fields would require extensive investments in long-degraded oil wells, electrical transmission, infrastructure to transport the oil, facilities that can upgrade Venezuela's heavy crude oil and terminals to export it from the country, experts say.

"It requires a lot of further investment [and] a great deal of remediation of … production-related infrastructure, from wells all the way to pipelines, that has lacked any maintenance and has suffered a great deal of corrosion," said Scott Montgomery, a lecturer at the University of Washington and former petroleum geologist. "It's not going to happen quickly."

The White House has said NABEP is planning to invest up to $100 billion in the new oil venture.

Goldwyn also pointed to legal risks. The U.S.-Venezuela deal is controversial in both countries, with opponents questioning whether it complies with American and Venezuelan law — raising the prospect that after Mr. Trump leaves office or interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez is replaced by an elected leader, their successors could choose to walk away from the deal.

"That's a very expensive way to fill the SPR," he said, "and it's a long shot because it's not yet clear that Venezuela is commercially appealing enough for someone to spend billions of dollars to improve upgrading infrastructure, when it's not clear whether the next Venezuelan government or the next U.S. government will be at all interested in pursuing this arrangement."

Customs and Border Protection informed Bovino in an email on March 2 that the agency was "conducting an official Inquiry into allegations of misconduct reported to CBP." Just 16 days later, Bovino sent an official retirement relocation request. 

The investigation was first reported by the Chicago Tribune. 

Bovino told CBS News that he was "forced to retire," and that CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott "didn't go after Bovino for legitimate reasons, but because Bovino was a political rival coupled with the fact Rodney Scott was adamantly opposed to interior enforcement by the US Border Patrol."

Bovino said there were two investigations that "popped up within days of the infamous surrender in Minnesota." 

In a statement to CBS News, a CBP spokesperson said, "DHS does not comment on matters regarding personnel who are no longer with the agency."

The statement added, "Bovino voluntarily retired from CBP. CBP is not authorized to provide any security for retired personnel."

While federal privacy rules restrict disclosure of certain personnel records, there is no blanket law or publicly available DHS policy barring comment on former employees. 

Bovino, who was a longtime Border Patrol official, was the public face of the Trump administration's controversial immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, and then Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans and ultimately, Minneapolis. 

Bovino was relieved of his role as "commander at large" in late January after the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis — and the response from Bovino and other officials — triggered widespread political backlash.

Immediately after Pretti's killing, Bovino, citing no evidence, claimed that Pretti intended to "massacre" federal agents.

Border Patrol had already been under investigation for its controversial tactics. A lawsuit filed by the Chicago Headline Club and other groups in Fall 2025 said Border Patrol unleashed an "unnecessarily brutal enforcement of the immigration laws" by deploying agents like teargas, pepper balls and rubber bullets against press and protesters. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis issued a preliminary injunction limiting use of force and accused Bovino of lying about altercations with agents.

"Most tellingly, Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters," Ellis wrote. 

The letter from CBP sent to Bovino in March addressed this case, asking the former official  to consider several questions, including, "Do you agree that District Judge Ellis' findings about your lack of credibility would have to be disclosed if you were called to testify in a trial?" 

The investigator asked Bovino what should happen when a federal judge finds a Border Patrol agent's testimony to be not credible, then went on to ask whether Bovino believed Ellis's findings made him "Giglio impaired" — a reference to prosecutors' obligation to disclose credibility problems that may be used later to impeach law-enforcement witnesses. The line of inquiry suggests CBP was analyzing whether Ellis's findings created a problem for Bovino beyond the immediate litigation. 

The Seventh Circuit later vacated Ellis's preliminary-injunction order without determining whether or not her credibility findings about Bovino were correct. 

He was also asked about alleged antisemitic comments. Rather than ask broadly about his remarks, the investigator puts his alleged statement directly to him: "Did you make a comment to the effect of 'Do Orthodox criminals also take off Saturday?'" The investigator followed up with, "What did you mean by this comment?" 

According to The New York Times, Bovino allegedly learned he was under investigation for disparaging a Minneapolis judge for taking off for Shabbat.  

In the CBP documents, Bovino also was asked if he made a comment about "chosen people," an apparent reference to Jewish people. 

Bovino was asked if both his testimony and these comments violated the CBP Standards of Conduct Section 7.7.2, which says, "employees will be professional in their contact with supervisors, subordinates, coworkers, and members of the public," and 7.7.11, which says, "employees will not make abusive, derisive, profane, or harassing statements or gestures, or engage in any other conduct evidencing hatred or invidious prejudice to or about another person or group on account of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or disability."

The Senate approved the short-term bipartisan funding bill in early August before its five-week recess, but the House was already on its lengthy summer break. The House, which returned Monday, passed the measure in a 370 to 48 vote after GOP leaders fast-tracked the bill, requiring two-thirds majority support for passage. 

Funding is now set to expire on Dec. 11, more than a month after the midterm elections, when the balance of power in the House and Senate for the next two years will be decided. 

Since April, the House Appropriations Committee has advanced all 12 annual appropriations bills that fund the federal government. Three have been approved by the full House. The process has stalled in the Senate, where none of the funding measures have made it out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. 

"We want to get a longer-term deal, but at a minimum, let's ensure that we can continue to see government properly funded and functioning," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, said Tuesday.

GOP Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, was doubtful that the extension would provide enough cushion for Congress to pass full-year legislation. 

"The Senate has wasted the entire year and a half. They have not passed a single bill," he said Tuesday, blaming Senate Democrats. "There's no excuse for not having a single one done." 

Cole suggested that there will either be a yearlong stopgap measure to break the impasse in December, or a shutdown. 

"We're going to be in a crunch time," he said. 

Without a stopgap measure, the lack of progress meant a shutdown was all but certain after funding lapses on Sept. 30. In addition to its effects on everyday Americans, a shutdown could have scuttled lawmakers' campaign plans. Congress is scheduled to be out of session for nearly all of October to allow members to be in their home districts to campaign. 

The House initially passed a GOP-led bill in July to extend funding at current levels until Dec. 4. It passed with little support from House Democrats, who wanted restrictions on Border Patrol funding. The Senate later passed a bipartisan measure to punt the deadline to Dec. 11. That bill included several Democratic demands, including a provision that would close a loophole that Democrats said allowed the Trump administration to transfer funds to Border Patrol, and language that would temporarily prevent political appointees from canceling federal grants. 

Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, encouraged Democrats to support the stopgap measure during their weekly caucus meeting Tuesday morning, according to Rep. Pete Aguilar of California. 

"That's a big statement from the ranking member," said Aguilar, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus. 

Described by lawyers as a federal official, the anonymous whistleblower revealed the information about the Postal Service's mail-voting procedures in a disclosure provided to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut that was made public Tuesday. In response, Blumenthal is now questioning Postmaster General David Steiner about the Postal Service's development of a new online portal to house information about voters and their mail ballots.

"The main takeaway for me is that the Postal Service has designed a system to disenfranchise millions of Americans," Blumenthal told reporters. "One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail, and the USPS puts all of their votes at risk."

The Postal Service said it received Blumenthal's letter and is carefully reviewing the concerns raised by the senator and the whistleblower.

"The United States Postal Service has spent months developing a U.S. Federal Ballot Mail Portal to provide election officials with a simple, secure, and efficient way to share lists of individuals receiving ballots by mail in their respective states. This work has at all times been conducted in a manner consistent with court orders," the agency said in a statement.

The Postal Service said it is finalizing the portal and will "soon" make it available to election officials to voluntarily use.

"Regardless of political party or perspective, we share a common goal: ensuring that Americans can have confidence that their election mail will be handled securely and delivered reliably," it said.

President Trump has sought to exert more federal control over U.S. elections ahead of the November midterms, including through his executive order imposing new restrictions on mail ballots. The president has also pushed Congress to approve a package of voting regulations that would outlaw mail voting — with some exceptions — and impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements to register to vote.

As Mr. Trump signed his executive order in March, he claimed that "the cheating on mail-in voting is legendary," and said new mail voting rules were needed to ensure the integrity of federal elections. But his administration has not put forth evidence of widespread voter fraud, and the president himself has cast ballots in Florida's elections by mail.

As part of its implementation of the president's directive, the Postal Service published a final rule last month laying out its new requirements for mail voting. A federal judge temporarily blocked its enforcement last week, and the Justice Department has appealed that decision.

Currently, six states conduct their elections entirely by mail. There are also four states, plus the District of Columbia, that have not yet eliminated in-person voting but also send ballots to all of their voters. In a CBS News poll in March, 77% of Democrats said anyone should be allowed to vote by mail, while just 25% of Republicans also felt that way. Independents were split, with 49% backing mail voting by anyone.

The new Postal Service rule imposes new design standards for outbound and return mail ballot envelopes, including the addition of a unique barcode. Under the new rule, state election officials must submit to an online "Federal Ballot Mail Portal" the names and addresses of voters receiving mail ballots, as well as the unique barcodes on the mail ballot envelopes. 

Once that information is provided through the portal, those voters would be considered enrolled with the Postal Service on their state's "Mail-In and Absentee Participation List." The agency has said it "will not play any role in determining voter eligibility, maintaining voter rolls, or counting ballots."

Most states led by Democrats oppose the rule, arguing that the Constitution gives states the authority to set election rules, not the federal government. 

Blumenthal described the Postal Service's actions as "sabotage."

In a letter to Steiner dated Monday, Blumenthal said the agency's implementation of Mr. Trump's executive order has been "perilously rushed and potentially unlawful," and he urged the Postal Service to walk back its new mail-voting plans for the upcoming elections. 

He wrote that the whistleblower's allegations show that "USPS lacks the technical or operational capability needed to effectively implement the EO's provisions in a way that safeguards every citizen's right to vote in the upcoming midterm elections." 

According to the whistleblower disclosure provided to Blumenthal by lawyers with Whistleblower Aid, the new portal is "untested" and will have "significant operating problems" when released, given its "rushed" development. 

The federal official also warned that the new verification process could keep large numbers of mail ballots from being delivered to voters.

For instance, the Postal Service has what the whistleblower claims is a "zero percent failure rate." Mail workers would scan a sample of a batch of mail ballots — about 400 out of a batch of 10,000 or more — to verify it matches what is in the federal mail ballot portal. Under the policy, if even one barcode on a single ballot in the batch doesn't scan properly or the information does not match, the entire batch would be rejected and returned to state election officials so the problem ballot could be addressed, and then the verification process would have to be started again.

The whistleblower's lawyers said that the way the process is designed is "entirely unforgiving." 

"It could delay ballots by the thousands in repeated verification cycles — and thus prevent states from mailing enormous numbers of ballots," the lawyers said.

David Becker, executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, warned that the process raises "tremendous" concerns for disenfranchisement of voters.

"Are Americans clamoring for the Postal Service to have this added responsibility as they're hoping that their ballots are just seamlessly sent to them?" Becker, a CBS News election law contributor, asked.

He also said that the new Postal Service rules "would undoubtedly create a tremendous number of hoops that are completely unnecessary and do nothing for election integrity." 

Publication of the final rule came days before the Supreme Court intervened last week in a case brought by 23 Democratic-led states that challenged key provisions of Mr. Trump's executive order. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani had blocked the Trump administration from implementing those portions of the directive in June, including plans for the Postal Service, but the Supreme Court lifted that lower court decision.

The high court's order was procedural: The majority found that the states' lawsuit was premature. The Supreme Court said its decision "does not mean that any measure taken by the Government to implement the Order will necessarily be lawful. On that score, time will tell."

In addition to expressing concerns about the Postal Service's new requirements for mail voting, the whistleblower's disclosure also contends that the agency violated court orders by implementing Mr. Trump's executive order.

After the district judge issued her order blocking implementation of the president's directive, Postal Service workers resumed work on the portal, the official said, and work continued even after the judge's latest ruling last week.

In a brief order Monday, Talwani, who is presiding over challenges to the new rule, said the Postal Service can establish the portal and communicate with states about design standards "so long as states' participation is not required."

The Postal Service aims to have the portal ready to be rolled out to the public by Sept. 1, according to the disclosure. North Carolina will begin sending mail ballots to some voters Friday, and several other states will make mail ballots available around mid-September, according to the Center for Election Innovation and Research.

"Our client, a lawful anonymous whistleblower, has come forward to flag a foreseeable catastrophic disruption to our coming nationwide elections based on the reckless pursuit of readying a new, insufficiently tested, poorly planned mail-in ballot screening system," the whistleblower's lawyers wrote.

A new state law has led one religious nonprofit to start chapters for students of dozens of Texas school districts. LifeWise Academy offers weekly Bible classes to public school students under SB 1049, which requires that schools allow the programs as long as they are held off campus, are privately funded and parents give permission.

LifeWise has experienced explosive growth over the last several years. In 2018, it received about $600,000 in contributions and grants; that figure reached nearly $35 million last year.

Launching a LifeWise program

Families that want to start a LifeWise chapter must collect 50 signatures and form a launch team with members of at least three churches, to prove there is interest. Then, they must hire a program director, pay a $1,500 startup fee, and pay for a corporate trainer to come from Hilliard, Ohio, where LifeWise is based.

"Corporate makes it easy because it's the same almost anywhere you go. You're going to have to work with a church or plan a building," said Diana Balmer, who runs the LifeWise chapter in Cleburne which launched earlier this year. "They want community involvement."

The corporate office provides a beginner kit with curriculum and a starter set of Bibles printed with the LifeWise logo. Extra copies cost $14.99.

Each program pays LifeWise $20 per student per year, along with a 4% processing fee on donations collected each month. Employees and volunteers must wear LifeWise clothing, which they can purchase on the corporate website. T-shirts range from $5 to $23, but other apparel items are on sale for as much as $250.

Communities bear the costs

While LifeWise offers matching grants to new programs, it also expects each chapter to get enough donations to cover its budget. That includes insurance and other ongoing costs, as well as supplies, activities and student shirts, which are all available for purchase from LifeWise. In Cleburne, that means bringing in about $3,000 a month.

In Texarkana, the chapter serving Red Lick ISD students needs about $6,000 every month to keep things running. Director Katie Beckham said in an interview with the I-Team that churches in the area are "the backbone" of the program.

"They want to see it thrive, they want to see this program grow," she said. Her chapter recently held a fundraiser that brought in about $17,000 to help buy two new buses.

LifeWise encourages programs to give presentations to local churches to ask for larger giving amounts, while also soliciting community members for monthly sponsorships of $30 per student.

Critics of LifeWise say its business model puts too much of the burden on local communities. Zachary Parrish, a co-founder of the Secular Education Association, formerly known as Parents Against LifeWise, said communities do not have a full picture of what they are getting into when they start a chapter.

"I never want to disparage the people who support this or are working for it, because I truly believe most of them think they're doing the right thing," he said in an interview with CBS News Texas. "But I don't think they really know how it operates and where the money is going."

Parrish said while the chapters are responsible for fundraising all of their operating costs, the national organization makes money through required fees and support services. "These local programs have to purchase pretty much everything from this corporate entity," he said. "So all of that money is really getting funneled back up to the top."

LifeWise sent the I-Team the following statement:

On average, a LifeWise program operates within the cost range of $200-$400 per student per year, depending on local decisions regarding paid staff, facility and transportation, which varies from location to location. LifeWise Academy equips local programs with the curriculum, training, technology, legal compliance resources, and operational support needed to safely and effectively operate released-time religious instruction programs. Like many national nonprofit organizations with local affiliates, certain materials and services are provided through the national organization to ensure consistency, quality, child safety, and compliance with applicable laws.

A new state law that requires public schools to allow students to leave class for religious instruction has already created challenges for districts as they try to avoid appearing to endorse any religion.

Under SB 1049, which passed last year, school districts must allow students to leave campus during the school day for up to five hours of religious instruction each week. An Ohio-based Christian nonprofit called LifeWise runs hundreds of programs across the country, and is helping start up dozens of chapters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

But according to emails obtained by the I-Team, implementing the programs in some districts has been met with resistance or reluctance.

Districts rankled by LifeWise rollout

On a Friday in May, a LifeWise program director notified a Denton ISD middle school that Bible classes would begin the following Monday. The district's general counsel quickly responded in an email saying the plan would "significantly disrupt" classes. He pointed out that the LifeWise schedule did not match the school's bell schedule, which meant students would be pulled out during the middle of first period. The district asked families to work with the principal to come up with a workable solution.

In McKinney, the district said it had no idea LifeWise was advertising its program until the I-Team asked about a social media post in which LifeWise celebrated the hiring of its "McKinney ISD program director." In an email, a deputy superintendent told the chapter its post "misrepresented" the district's partnerships and offerings, and asked it to immediately remove any reference to McKinney ISD.

A similar scenario played out in Plano ISD after a parent emailed the district raising concerns about how school resources were being used to facilitate LifeWise classes. Days later, an administrator emailed the LifeWise chapter to say that "references to a partnership with Plano ISD must cease immediately."

Plano's LifeWise program launched in May 2026. Denton and McKinney's programs had not started as of the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year.

Schools left in difficult positions

Experts say those are just some of the challenges school districts will face in working with LifeWise and other similar programs.

Mark Chancey, a professor of religious studies at SMU, said schools are not allowed to use tax dollars to support the programs. Providing meals to students who leave during lunch, subsidizing transportation or even just promoting the programs "are ways that schools might get themselves into legal trouble," Chancey said.

Zachary Parrish, a co-founder of the Secular Education Association, agrees. "It's one thing that the school has to allow these programs in," he told the I-Team. "That doesn't mean they have to advertise for this program. That doesn't mean that they have to be sending permission slips home. There are still a lot of lines that the school can cross unknowingly that may be constitutional issues."

What the districts are saying

Denton ISD statement:

In alignment with current policy and practices, parents have the opportunity to remove students from portions of the school day for instruction and experiences outside of what is offered during the instructional day, as they find appropriate.

McKinney ISD statement:

The District respects the rights of families to make educational and cultural decisions aligned with their values. While the District does not maintain a formal partnership or institutional relationship with LifeWise or similar religious instruction providers, the District engages with parents individually. Specifically, the District engages parents to facilitate the logistical implementation of religious excusals under SB 1049. McKinney ISD is committed to continue compliance with all applicable laws.  

Plano ISD statement:

As previously shared, LifeWise is not affiliated with Plano ISD. We do not have a partnership with this entity, and Plano ISD does not sponsor or manage the LifeWise Academy program. As a private entity, LifeWise handles its program independently, including parent opt-ins, locations, scheduling and student transportation.

Texas law permits released time for religious instruction. Under the law, students may be released from public school during the school day at a parent's or guardian's request to receive religious instruction, provided the program is held off school property, is privately funded and does not interfere with instructional time.

As with any student absence or off-campus activity during the school day, the district may address routine campus operational matters, including attendance, student safety and meal-service procedures. These routine matters do not constitute a partnership with LifeWise or district oversight of its program.

Again, Plano ISD has no affiliation with LifeWise and cannot speak to the services it provides. Any arrangements related to LifeWise are made between the organization and parents or guardians.

For specific information about LifeWise locations, schedules or services, please contact LifeWise directly.

Move over reading and writing, there's a new kind of class coming to public schools in Texas. A state law passed last year requires districts to allow their students to receive religious instruction as part of the school day.

The classes, called released time for religious instruction (RTRI), take place during school hours, and students are required to make up any work they miss. They can only happen with a parent's permission and private funding.

The law, Senate Bill 1049, passed with little fanfare and broad bipartisan support, was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott and took effect on Sept. 1. The I-Team has found that it was part of a "copy and paste" effort spearheaded by LifeWise Academy and its supporters; LifeWise is a Christian nonprofit group pushing for religious instruction for public school students nationwide.

"Jesus in every lesson"

LifeWise Academy operates the largest RTRI program in the country and is working to expand further, with dozens of chapters forming in North Texas alone. One such chapter in Cleburne draws about 10% of the student body at Cooke Elementary, according to Diana Balmer, who runs it.

"It's fun to see their excitement," she said. "And the teacher knows: Jesus in every lesson."

Every day, Balmer walks students from Cooke to a church down the street for LifeWise, while their classmates take electives such as music, physical education, and computer lab.

Under SB 1049, the classes are optional for students but not for schools. That means districts have to allow programs to pull students out of class for up to 5 hours each week, as long as parents give permission and the program is privately funded.

From "may" to "shall"

State Sen. Phil King, a Republican from Weatherford, authored the bill. During the 2025 legislative session, he said it would help parents who wanted religious education but could not afford private school. He told members of the Senate education committee that 15 school districts had denied parents' requests to start such a program. 

He also said the bill reinforced a 1952 Supreme Court case holding that public school districts may allow students to leave campus for religious instruction without violating the Constitution. 

But there is one big difference between that case and SB 1049. 

King's legislation reads, "school district shall excuse a student..." while the original case, Zorach v. Clauson, stated that districts "may excuse a student."

In legalese, "may" means there is a choice; "Shall" means there is not.

LifeWise and its supporters spoke about the importance of wording at a December 2024 meeting of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. During the presentation, Cody Balch, the nonprofit's senior director of statewide initiatives, pointed out how changing from "may" to "shall" in Indiana led to massive growth in its programs. 

"Just a few months ago, they were a 'may' state," Balch said. "And in just a short time, they've quadrupled their LifeWise programs, and they're already serving over 70 schools in Indiana."

They also gave each lawmaker in attendance a copy of model legislation with the "shall" language. That wording was in SB 1049 when King filed it a few months later.

Now, if someone wants to start a religious studies program at a public school, the district has to allow it.

King and his office declined numerous interview requests for this story. In a phone call, he said SB 1049 was a "minor bill" that was "just not important enough" to warrant an interview.

However, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the leader of the State Senate, apparently believes in its importance. In July, he asked the Senate's religious liberty committee to monitor the bill and ensure it is implemented without issues.

Part of broader push for Christianity in public education

Experts in religion and education also believe the law is important, especially in the context of other recent state efforts, like putting the Ten Commandments in classrooms and adding Bible stories to textbooks.

"This all looks like part of a broader effort to privilege certain religious views over the views of everyone else," said Mark Chancey, a professor of religious studies at SMU. "And I think that's problematic, especially in a very diverse state like Texas."

Chancey's research focuses on the intersection of religion and public education. He says more research is needed to know just how RTRI programs will impact schools and students. 

"What happens with that lost instruction time in the public school itself? What are children missing when they leave the school to go for outside instruction? How does that affect the dynamics in the classroom?" he said.

Rev. Charles Johnson, who leads a nonprofit called Pastors for Texas Children, says churches play an important role in supporting schools, students and teachers, but the law approaches it in the wrong way.

"What you're doing is creating an environment where, people that don't subscribe to that viewpoint that got that bill passed, they become discriminated against. That's exactly what's going to happen in these schools," he said.

"I do think that children ought to learn the history of religion," Johnson said. "But you present it in a way that is non-sectarian, and that does not use the authority of the school to advance a particular, specific religious point of view. That is for the home and the congregation."

In a statement to CBS News Texas, LifeWise described itself as an organization that "comes alongside administrators and teachers to support their mission of serving students."

"LifeWise supports legislation that gives parents the freedom to choose off-campus religious instruction for their children during the school hours. Like many nonprofit organizations, LifeWise engages in legally permissible advocacy and education related to issues that advance our mission and complies with all applicable federal and state laws governing nonprofit lobbying and advocacy activities. As legislation has been considered in states across the country, we have shared information about released time religious instruction, including our experience implementing these programs and the legal frameworks that support them. We encourage Texas families interested in learning more about LifeWise Academy and released time religious instruction to visit our website, lifewise.org"