(CNN) – For the second time in a year, Spotify is raising its prices.

The streaming service says starting in July, U.S. subscribers will pay $1 more per month for its ad-free premium plan.

That comes to $11.99 per month – a 20% price jump over the past two years.

Some of Spotify’s other service tiers are seeing increases, including split plans and family plans.

Spotify says the price hikes will help it invest in and innovate its features for a better user experience.

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - A local schools receives an out-of-this-world donation.

Mary Help of Christians School was just gifted the power of solar energy.

The donation from Peg Energy is a state-of-the-art solar system that’ll help the school move towards a more sustainable and energy-reliable facility.

Mary Help Principal Sister Rosann Ruiz shared her gratitude, saying the school is incredibly grateful for Peg Energy’s generous donation and explained that the donation will help the school by reducing costs, support their environmental goals, and provide a valuable learning tool for their students.

LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - Following Sunday night’s historic election in Mexico, local officials are considering what it means for Laredo’s relationship with the Mexican government.

Mayor Dr. Victor Treviño congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican President-elect, on her big win and invited her for a meeting soon. He stressed the importance of Laredo and its sister cities in keeping good ties between Mexico and the U.S.

“I think it shows a turning point to where we are going in our binational relationships, and Laredo is at the forefront because we are a major port, including Nuevo Laredo, and we have to deal with federal issues at a local level,” stated Mayor Treviño. “We have to put Laredo on the map. We have to make sure that all these binational issues are at the forefront so we can make progress here in Laredo.”

Furthermore, the Mayor expressed optimism about the opportunities a new President of Mexico brings to the area.

DALLAS (KLTV/Gray News) – Former All-Pro offensive lineman Larry Allen died Sunday while on vacation with his family in Mexico, the Dallas Cowboys said in a statement Monday.

He was 52 years old.

Allen was drafted during the second round of the 1994 NFL draft.

The Cowboys organization said Allen was known for his athleticism and strength and was “one of the most respected, accomplished offensive linemen to ever play in the NFL.”

He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2013 and was a member of the All-Decade team in the 1990s and 2000s.

According to the Dallas Cowboys website, Allen is one of three Cowboys in team history with double-digit Pro Bowl selections. He had 10 Pro Bowls and seven All-Pro selections with the Cowboys.

Allen finished his career with the 49ers and earned his 11th Pro Bowl in 2006.

“His versatility and dependability were also signature parts of his career,” the Cowboys organization said in a post on social media. “Through that, he continued to serve as inspiration for many other players defining what it meant to be a great teammate, competitor and winner.”

He leaves behind his wife, Janelle – whom he referred to as “his heart and soul” – two daughters, and a son.

“The Jones family and the Cowboys extend their deepest condolences, thoughts and prayers to the Allen family and grieve along with the many other friends and Cowboys teammates that also loved Larry,” the Cowboys organization said.

(AP) - After a weekend in which conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned that his media company faced an imminent shutdown by the federal government because of his bankruptcy cases, a judge on Monday allowed Jones to keep operating for the next two weeks while it is decided whether his assets should be liquidated.

Both Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, filed for bankruptcy reorganization after he lost two lawsuits and was ordered to pay $1.5 billion to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. They sued Jones for calling the shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, a hoax, claiming defamation and infliction of emotional distress.

The families have opposed Jones’ reorganization plans. On Sunday, they filed an emergency motion to convert Free Speech Systems’ bankruptcy reorganization into a liquidation, saying Jones has not made progress in showing how he will pay the lawsuit judgments.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston said Monday that he will address the motion on June 14, when a decision on whether to liquidate Jones and his company’s assets is expected.

Jones went on his web and radio show over the weekend with “emergency broadcasts” claiming Free Speech Systems, including his Infowars broadcasts, were going to be shut down at any minute by the federal government and bankruptcy system. That did not happen. At one point, he urged his followers to form a human chain around his studio in Austin, Texas, to protect it.

Some of Jones’ comments came in profanity-laden rants, and Jones appeared to cry at points.

“There’s really no avenue out of this,” Jones said on his show Sunday. “I’m kind of in the bunker here. And don’t worry. I’ll come back. The enemy can’t help but do this attack.”

On Saturday, Jones was defiant, saying “At the end of the day, we’re going to beat these people. I’m not trying to be dramatic here, but it’s been a hard fight. These people hate our children.”

The broadcasts were in response to apparent disputes between Jones, a chief restructuring officer appointed by the bankruptcy court to oversee Jones’ company and another company that supplies the nutritional supplements Jones sells on his shows, according to lawyers in the bankruptcy cases. Jones made disparaging comments about the restructuring officer over the weekend, one of the lawyers said.

The other company that supplies the supplements, PQPR Holdings Limited, is actually mostly owned by Jones. A lawyer for PQPR said in court Monday that the company opposed allowing Free Speech Systems and Infowars to continue operating until June 14, alleging Jones was being uncooperative in the bankruptcy discussions and calling for an immediate closure of Free Speech Systems.

The PQPR attorney, Stephen Lemmon, told the judge that there was no agreement to allow Free Speech Systems to continue operating after Monday.

“We think that everybody is better off if this just gets shut down right now,” Lemmon said.

Annie Catmull, a lawyer for Free Speech Systems, asked the judge to continue allowing the company to operate.

Lopez, the judge, ruled that the company can continue to pay employee wages and other expenses until June 14, after asking the lawyers to “take the temperature down” in their arguments.

Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the Sandy Hook families, claimed Jones was “manufacturing a crisis” about the threat of being shut down imminently, noting that the dispute was between two Jones-owned companies. PQPR also claims Free Speech Systems owes it millions of dollars in unpaid bills for the nutritional supplements, a debt called bogus by the families’ attorneys.

Jones’ lawyers have been unable to reach an agreement over the past several months with the families’ lawyers on how to resolve the bankruptcy cases. Jones’ lawyer recently said in court that the cases appear headed to liquidation or may be withdrawn.

Liquidation could mean that Jones would have to sell most of what he owns, including his company and its assets, but could keep his home and other personal belongings that are exempt from bankruptcy liquidation. Proceeds would go to his creditors, including the Sandy Hook families.

If the cases are withdrawn, it would put Jones back in the same position he was in after the $1.5 billion was awarded in the lawsuits and it would send efforts to collect the damages back to the state courts where the verdicts were reached.

The families of many, but not all, of the Sandy Hook victims sued Jones and won the two trials in Connecticut and Texas.

The relatives said they were traumatized by Jones’ comments and the actions of his followers. They testified at the trials about being harassed and threatened by Jones’ believers, some of whom confronted the grieving families in person saying the shooting never happened and their children never existed.

According to the most recent financial statements filed in the bankruptcy court, Jones personally has about $9 million in assets including his $2.6 million Austin-area home and other real estate. He also listed his living expenses at about $69,000 for April alone, including about $16,500 for expenses on his home including maintenance, housekeeping and insurance.

Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems, which employs 44 people, had nearly $4 million in cash on hand at the end of April. The business made nearly $3.2 million in April, including from selling the dietary supplements, clothing and other items that Jones promotes on his show, while listing $1.9 million in expenses.

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - Police in Mississippi said a child is recovering from head injuries after his mother was held at gunpoint.

Police with the Jackson Police Department said the mother was held up on Saturday at Jayne Avenue Park.

The mother and her 3-year-old son were playing at the park when two people approached them.

Those suspects then pulled out a gun and held it on the mother and child while demanding they hand over their belongings.

The suspects then stole the mother’s vehicle, hitting the child in the process.

Police said the child sustained head injuries but was responsive at the scene. He was taken to a nearby hospital.

Authorities said the suspects were driving a black four-door vehicle believed to be a Chrysler 200.

The victim’s vehicle is a white 2006 Chevy Impala with the tag number of HPU 633.

The names of the victims and suspects were not released.

Jackson Police are investigating this incident as an armed robbery, aggravated assault, and auto theft.

Anyone with the information about this case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-8477 or the Jackson Police Department at 601-960-1234.

(AP) - Donald Trump has joined the popular video-sharing app TikTok, a platform he once tried to ban while in the White House.

Trump posted from a UFC fight two days after he became the first former president and presumptive major party nominee in U.S. history to be found guilty on felony charges.

“It’s an honor,” Trump said in the TikTok video, which features footage of him waving to fans and posing for selfies at the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight in Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday night. The video ends with Trump telling the camera: “That was a good walk-on, right?”

By Sunday morning, Trump had amassed more than 1.1 million followers on the platform and the post had garnered more than 1 million likes and 24 million views.

“We will leave no front undefended and this represents the continued outreach to a younger audience consuming pro-Trump and anti-Biden content,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement about the campaign’s decision to join the platform.

“There’s no place better than a UFC event to launch President Trump’s Tik Tok, where he received a hero’s welcome and thousands of fans cheered him on,” he added.

Democratic President Joe Biden signed legislation in April that could ban TikTok in the U.S., even as his campaign joined in February and has tried to work with influencers.

Trump received an enthusiastic welcome at the fight at Newark’s Prudential Center, where the crowd broke into chants of “We love Trump!” and another insulting Biden with an expletive.

It was Trump’s first public outing since a jury in New York found him guilty Thursday on 34 charges of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by covering up hush money payments made to a porn actor who claimed she and Trump had sex. Trump has maintained he did nothing wrong and plans to appeal the verdict. He will be sentenced on July 11.

Throughout his campaign, Trump has used appearances at UFC fights to project an image of strength and to try to appeal to potential voters who may not closely follow politics or engage with traditional news sources. It’s also part of a broader effort to connect with young people and minority voters, particularly Latino and Black men.

TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, is another opportunity to reach those potential voters. The platform has about 170 million users in the U.S., most of whom skew younger — a demographic that is especially hard for campaigns to reach because they shun television.

As president, Trump tried to ban TikTok through an executive order that said “the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned” by Chinese companies was a national security threat. The courts blocked the action after TikTok sued.

Both the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share user data such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers with China’s government. TikTok said it has never done that and would not, if asked.

The platform was a hot topic of debate during the 2024 GOP primary campaign, with most candidates shunning its use. Many, including former Vice President Mike Pence, called for TikTok to be banned in the U.S. due to its connections with China

Trump said earlier this year that he still believes TikTok posed a national security risk, but was opposed to banning it because that would help its rival, Facebook, which he continues to criticize over his 2020 election loss to Biden.

“Frankly, there are a lot of people on TikTok that love it. There are a lot of young kids on TikTok who will go crazy without it,” Trump told CNBC.

The legislation signed by Biden gives ByteDance nine months to sell the company, with a possible additional three months if a sale is in progress. If it doesn’t, TikTok will be banned. Biden barred the app on most government devices in December 2022.

His reelection campaign nonetheless uses the app, which it joined the night of the Super Bowl in February. Aides argue that in an increasingly fragmented modern media environment, the campaign must get its message out to voters via as many platforms as possible, including TikTok as well as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

Biden’s “bidenhq” account currently has more than 330,000 followers and 4.5 million likes.

Trump’s appearance at Saturday’s fight came after he had sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends Weekend” that aired Sunday.

In that appearance, Trump said he was “OK” with the prospect of potential jail time or house arrest, saying it was “the way it is.'’’

But he again suggested the public might not accept such a punishment for a former president now running to return to the White House.

“I don’t know that the public would stand it, you know. I’m not sure the public would stand for it,” he said. “I think it would be tough for the public to take. You know, at a certain point there’s a breaking point.”

Trump, as he has throughout the trial, maintained his innocence, saying he “did absolutely nothing wrong.”

He was asked how his wife, former first lady Melania Trump, has taken the news.

“She’s fine. But I think it’s very hard for her. I mean, she’s fine. But, you know, she has to read all this crap,” he said.

She did not appear with Trump in court at any point during his seven-week trial.