Tag: Texas

Texas Woman Sues State for an Abortion

A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal condition sued the state on Tuesday seeking an emergency court order to allow her doctor to perform an abortion, despite the state’s strict bans on the procedure. The lawsuit is believed to be one of the first attempts in the nation to seek a court-ordered abortion […]

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Of Course They Do: Texas Republicans Say Associating With Nazi Sympathizers Is Fine

“This is the People’s House—and although the House Ethics Committee findings were damning, the people of New York’s Third Congressional District should decide who represents them,” Williams continued. “I’ll always side on giving power to the voters.” In a statement, Jackson explained that he was worried by the precedent set by Santos’s removal, despite the […]

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U.S. Appeals Court Orders Texas to Remove Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande

A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the state of Texas to remove a barrier of floating buoys in the Rio Grande installed at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott to block migrants trying to cross from Mexico, delivering a blow to the state’s efforts to curtail unauthorized immigration. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge […]

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Why Are Nonprofit Hospitals Focused More on Dollars Than Patients?

Nonprofit hospitals have been caught doing some surprising things, given how they are supposed to serve the public good in exchange for being exempt from federal, state and local taxes — exemptions that added up to $28 billion in 2020. Detailed media reports show them hounding poor patients for money, cutting nurse staffing too aggressively […]

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Former Coal Towns Get Money for Clean-Energy Factories

In Weirton, W.Va., in the heart of coal country, a company started by MIT scientists plans to build a plant that will produce a metal and alloy critical for clean energy, fuel cells and cleaner steel. In Vernon, Texas, also a former coal town, a third-generation wind entrepreneur plans to manufacture turbines suitable for remote, […]

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High-Speed Police Chases Rise Near Texas Border, Leaving Locals on Edge

Jairo Lerma and several of his relatives placed a wooden cross in the dry grass along a Texas highway where his parents, on their way from Georgia to Mexico, died suddenly in a fiery crash with an oncoming car that was carrying migrants and fleeing a sheriff’s deputy. Shortly before the crash on Nov. 8, […]

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Houston Shows How to Tackle Homelessness

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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.

For Tyler, the final straw was a dustup over a video he showed his class a few months after he collected his prize. The video was about the seventeenth-century English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. It was hosted by John Green, author of the 2012 young adult novel The Fault in Our Stars. Green has engaged […]

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Texas Attorney Arrested For Allegedly Smuggling Ecstasy-Laced Paperwork To Inmates

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Harris County Jail / HARRIS COUNTY A Texas attorney was arrested for allegedly smuggling narcotics to inmates while making work-related visits to a county jail. According to AP, Ronald Lewis, 77, was arrested Friday for smuggling legal paperwork laced with ecstasy and synthetic marijuana to inmates at the Harris County Jail in […]

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Tesla Begins Showcasing Cybertruck In Showrooms Before Delivery Event

Tesla Begins Showcasing Cybertruck In Showrooms Before Delivery Event | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Anyone can view the Cybertruck live and in person at a handful of showrooms ten days before owners take first delivery on November 30th 5 hours ago <!––> <!– –> For those who didn’t receive an invitation to the Tesla Cybertruck […]

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Texas House Passes Two of the Strictest Anti-Immigrant Bills in the Country

“We look forward to working with her and Speaker Johnson in the days ahead to advance social conservative values in this Congress,” FPA President Craig DeRoche said. The FPA actively promotes conversion therapy, which it describes as “basic talk therapy to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.” The organization insists that conversion therapy is “nothing more than […]

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Texas House Passes One of the Most Hard-Line Immigration Bills in the Country

“We look forward to working with her and Speaker Johnson in the days ahead to advance social conservative values in this Congress,” FPA President Craig DeRoche said. The FPA actively promotes conversion therapy, which it describes as “basic talk therapy to resolve unwanted same-sex attraction.” The organization insists that conversion therapy is “nothing more than […]

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In Texas, a Fight Over Gender and School Theater Takes an Unexpected Turn

A school district in the conservative town of Sherman, Texas, made national headlines last week when it put a stop to a high school production of the musical “Oklahoma!” after a transgender student was cast in a lead role. The district’s administrators decided, and communicated to parents, that the school would cast only students “born […]

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Border Wall Falls Leave Migrants With Devastating — and Costly — Injuries

Ambulances rush them daily to hospitals in El Paso, San Diego and Tucson, Ariz., writhing in pain — bones poking out of arms and legs; skulls cracked; spines shattered. The men and women arrive on stretchers flanked by an agent in the telltale green uniform of the U.S. Border Patrol. “One look, and I know […]

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Texas Bishop Loudly Critical of Pope Francis Is Removed

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of the loudest American voices against Pope Francis within his own church, recently responded to a Vatican investigation into his leadership and talk of his potential resignation with a public letter stating, “I cannot resign as Bishop of Tyler because that would be me abandoning the flock.” He […]

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8 Killed as Human Smuggling Suspect Crashes Into S.U.V., Authorities Say

Eight people were killed in southwest Texas on Wednesday morning when a driver suspected of human smuggling tried to elude law enforcement officers and slammed head-on into an S.U.V., the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The crash occurred just after 6:30 a.m. on US-57 near Batesville, some 80 miles southwest of San Antonio, the […]

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Cody Smith Wins Uvalde Mayor Race

Kimberly Mata-Rubio, whose daughter was killed last year in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, lost a special election to become mayor of a city that has struggled with divisions in the aftermath of the tragedy, The Associated Press reported. Cody Smith, a former mayor of Uvalde, will return to the […]

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Was Texas Coffee & Cars Justified To Ban Mustangs, Chargers, And Camaros Over Burnouts?

Was Texas Coffee & Cars Justified To Ban Mustangs, Chargers, And Camaros Over Burnouts? | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Is this a case of discrimination against muscle car owners or a necessary evil in order to keep car meets safe? November 7, 2023 at 21:00 <!––> <!– –> Car meets offer a fantastic opportunity to […]

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‘Show Me Your Papers’: Texas Republicans Advance ‘Stop And Frisk’ Bill For Undocumented Migrants

NewsOne Featured Video The Texas State Capitol is seen on September 5, 2023, in Austin, Texas. | Source: Brandon Bell / Getty In today’s shockingly un-shocking news, lawmakers in one of the leading Republican states in the war against critical race theory recently pushed through a bill that would have a 100% chance of affecting […]

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Supreme Court Seems Likely to Uphold Law Disarming Domestic Abusers

The Supreme Court seemed ready on Tuesday to rule that the government may disarm people under domestic violence orders, limiting the sweep of last year’s blockbuster gun rights decision. Several conservative justices, during a lively if largely one-sided argument, seemed to be searching for a narrow rationale that would not require them to retreat substantially […]

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Family Values: Republican Candidate Arrested for Child Porn Hours Before Election

While introducing the new censure resolution, McCormick railed against Tlaib for describing the chant “from the river to the sea” as an “aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence,” and lambasted her for allegedly promoting the destruction of Israel. McCormick’s effort has faced more support from the Republican caucus than Greene’s, winning over […]

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Supreme Court Hears a Major Case on Gun Rights and Domestic Violence

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether the government may disarm people subject to domestic violence orders. The question is important, of course, as studies have demonstrated that the combination of domestic strife and firearms can be lethal. The Supreme Court itself recognized this in a 2014 majority opinion. “All too often, […]

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Supreme Court’s Devotion to Gun Rights Faces a Challenging Test

The big gun rights case the Supreme Court is set to hear on Tuesday presents the justices with a tricky problem. They must start to clear up the confusion they created last year in a landmark decision that revolutionized Second Amendment law by saying that long-ago historical practices are all that matter in assessing challenges […]

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Racist White Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murdering Black Neighbor Over Kids’ Toys On Texas Sidewalk

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Joe Raedle / Getty On September 27, 2020, 57-year-old Edward Murray of Fort Worth, Texas, shot and killed 39-year-old Black man Antonio Robinson, a father of three, all because Murray was upset about toys left on the sidewalk in front of his home—and because he’s a miserable old racist, according to […]

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With Rangers Win, an Overlooked Texas City Grabs the Spotlight

During baseball season, the public buses in Houston flash a message as they rumble through the city: “Go Astros!!” A similar sort of communal baseball spirit has not typically surrounded the Texas Rangers, a team whose claim to the hearts of all Texans had, until their World Series victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, […]

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Judge Orders Border Agents to Stop Cutting Texas’ Barbed Wire Fence

In the latest chapter in an expanding legal struggle over border security, a federal judge in Texas ordered federal Border Patrol agents on Monday to stop cutting concertina wire that had been placed by the state along the Rio Grande to deter migrants from crossing from Mexico. The temporary restraining order, granted by Judge Alia […]

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‘A Bright Light in a Dark Time’: A New School for Uvalde

In the year since a teenage gunman strode into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and killed 19 fourth graders and two teachers, the building has stood empty, its windows boarded over, its students dispersed to other campuses with little chance to maintain the bonds they once shared. That was poised to change on Saturday, as […]

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‘Ruined My Life’: Dallas Black Man Beaten And Tased By Police After Mistaken Identity, Says Lawsuit

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty A Dallas Black man is suing the city and multiple police officers after he says he was beaten and tased by police after cops mistook him for a domestic violence suspect who had a similar name.  According to NBC News, Silvester Hayes, 27, […]

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Texas Lawmakers Vote to Let Local Police Arrest Migrants

In a direct challenge to federal power over immigration, the Texas House on Thursday approved the creation of a state-level crime for entering the country from Mexico between ports of entry, allowing local police agencies to arrest and jail unauthorized migrants or order them back to Mexico. The legislation had been called for by Gov. […]

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The Absurd Lawsuit That Could Bankrupt Planned Parenthood

Doe does not shy away from this; in fact, he claims a leading role. From 2013 to 2015, his suit states, Doe says he “conducted an extensive undercover investigation of Planned Parenthood,” including its “abortion services” and “fetal tissue donation and research program.” He characterizes this as “direct, independent, unique, and personal knowledge obtained during […]

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‘We Still Don’t Have Answers’: A Uvalde Mother Is Running for Mayor

On a recent Saturday morning, a day after what would have been Lexi Rubio’s 12th birthday, dozens gathered in the Texas city of Uvalde for a run in her honor. Blasting Lexi’s playlist, Kimberly Mata-Rubio, her mother, took off from under a towering mural of Lexi, one of 19 children and two teachers killed in […]

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