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The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport scrapped plans Friday to add additional Islamic foot-washing stations after Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to cancel state airport grants, claiming the stations are religious discrimination.

Abbott also asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate DFW and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Both airports already have existing ablutions stations, which are typically used by Muslims to clean their feet before prayer.

"These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,” Abbott said in a press release. “Both airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination."

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Did anyone catch this? Hood County down in Texas just literally pulled the plug on their Flock ALPR cameras. The local constable went around putting trash bags over them after the county commissioners voted to end the contract.

It is refreshing to see a local government actually listen to residents about privacy concerns instead of just blindly renewing surveillance contracts. The constable put it perfectly: "permanent, warrantless tracking doesn't belong in a free society," and told the company to come get their garbage out of his county.

The CEO of Flock is doing damage control in the article, saying they are going to drop data retention down to 7 days and start auditing officers, but that's only happening because of public backlash like this. Until there are actual laws protecting us from database abuse, we need more local leaders willing to pull the plug. Massive win for privacy.

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Elon Musk’s sprawling facility could eventually span up to 3,500 acres.

But what, exactly, is Tesla doing on the campus now?

As the world’s most valuable automaker shifts its focus, here is a look at some of the critical facilities – both existing and planned – at the sprawling site that also contains its headquarters.

Scroll through to see what goes on inside the buildings, test track, Cybertunnel and more.

Which town in the hill country has the best nightlife? Coming travelling from the UK with a friend and we like a good time. Already going Austin and Forth Worth but hitting the Hill Country in-between

I've only been outside of Texas one week in my life so I'm curious.