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The Biden administration can, instead, expand labor pathways, update the US’s humanitarian protections to meet 21st-century challenges The Biden administration’s plan to erect a new section of border wall is disappointing not only because it contradic…
Administration’s first use of executive power alarms advocates concerned about wall destroying wildlife refuge landThe Joe Biden White House announced it waived 26 federal laws in south Texas to allow border wall construction on Wednesday, marking the …
Joaquin Castro urged fellow House members to reject Republican calls for US military action to stem flow of fentanyl from MexicoA progressive US congressman from Texas has asked his legislative colleagues to join him in condemning some American conserv…
Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar, 68, victim of carjacking in Navy Yard neighborhood on Monday night but was not physically hurtThe US congressman Henry Cuellar was robbed of his car at gunpoint on Monday evening in Washington, but he was not physically ha…
There have been several recent incidents in the US in which people have been shot after approaching the wrong residenceEarly on Monday, an off-duty Texas highway patrol officer thought someone was trying to break into his apartment in Houston, accordin…
Darryl George, 17, of Texas has been serving an in-school suspension since 31 August for refusing to cut his dreadlocksThe family of a Black high school student in Texas who was suspended over his dreadlocks filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Saturda…
Move comes as education laws restricting teaching of race, sexuality, and other topics are being implemented across the USA Texas teacher was fired after assigning an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to her middle school class, in a move th…
Billy Chemirmir, 50, was convicted of two murders and accused of killing nearly two dozen womenA man who Texas authorities say smothered at least two dozen elderly women in a two-year killing spree, while stealing possibly millions of dollars worth of …
Ken Paxton, impeached in May, has been found not guilty of bribery and dereliction of duty and may resume officeAfter a dramatic impeachment trial that lasted more than a week, Ken Paxton, the ultraconservative Texas attorney general, has been acquitte…
Number of book challenges nationwide doubled from 2021 as book ban movement gathers speed in Republican-led statesTexas made the most attempts to ban or restrict books in 2022, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA).Last …