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A claim being shared online that the US state of Texas has declared bringing an LGBTQ pride flag into a school classroom a “crime” originates from a satirical news article.

Posts sharing the claim on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook—sometimes include a link to a page with a full story and other versions have a screenshot including the headline: “It’s Official: Texas Declares Bringing a Pride Flag to the Classroom a Crime.”

Many of the accounts posting or commenting on it on social media appear to believe it is a genuine policy.

The website it originates from tags the article under ‘satire’. It reports that the bill is titled “The Classroom Sanctity Act”. We can find no evidence that a bill of this name or nature has been tabled or approved by…

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HostColor.com upgraded its hosting service portfolio of AMD Dedicated Servers with bare-metal server configurations hosted in Texas data centers. The AMD-powered servers feature EPYC 7543 processors, high-speed NMVe SSD-based storage, and scalable RAM from 128 GB up to 512 GB. The new AMD EPYC 7543-based servers feature 1 Gbps dedicated unmetered bandwidth upgradable to 10-gigabit network bandwidth.

The AMD servers feature EPYC 7543 and are available in the company’s Houston Dedicated Server section. Houston is one of the first five U.S. metropolitan markets where the cloud infrastructure provider started delivering AMD-powered servers. The others are Ashburn, Virginia; Bend, Oregon; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Dallas, Texas.

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — QuoteWell, a tech-driven insurance wholesale broker, has partnered with industry trade association the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) to help deliver a responsive and transparent wholesale brokerage experience to IIAT’s 9,000+ agency members.

By leveraging QuoteWell’s advanced AI-driven platform, IIAT members will gain access to a more efficient submission process, real-time status updates, and comprehensive support from experienced underwriters.

“We are thrilled to partner with QuoteWell to enhance our members’ capabilities in accessing specialty…

An image is being shared online with the false claim it shows the wreckage of the helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi. 

The caption on a post sharing the photo of a damaged helicopter on Instagram says: “‎The wreckage of Iranian President Raisi’s helicopter has been found.”

However, the image is actually of a Eurocopter helicopter crash in Texas, United States, in January 2024.

President Raisi, along with seven other people including Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, died in a helicopter crash in the north of Iran on Sunday 19 May.

Iranian state media reported that the accident occurred as a result of fog and rain.

The image being incorrectly attributed to the crash is actually from an incident near Spofford in southern Texas…