Oct 12 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders ban on vaccine mandates By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press The move comes as the Biden administration is set to issue rules requiring employers with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or test weekly for the coronavirus. Several major companies, including Texas-based American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, have said… Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch 4:31 2021 saw a record number of abortion restrictions enacted While the latest ruling in a US court of appeals has reinstated the near-total ban on abortions in Texas – two days after the restrictive law was challenged by the Biden administration – an analysis found that more than 19… Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch 9:05 Texas clinics resume abortions past 6-week mark, but women fear access may be temporary By Meredith Lee, Alex D'Elia, Stephanie Sy In his 113- page order blocking the enforcement of Texas' six week abortion ban law, U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman called the law “an unprecedented and aggressive scheme to deprive its citizens of a significant and well-established constitutional right.” But… Continue watching
Oct 06 Student taken into custody hours after Texas school shooting By Jamie Stengle, Jill Bleed, Associated Press Police in Texas have arrested a student suspected of opening fire during a fight at his Dallas-area high school, leaving four people injured. Continue reading
Oct 04 Where Americans stand on abortion restrictions as a new Supreme Court term opens By Chloe Jones Overall, 74 percent of Americans said they oppose a law that allows private citizens to sue abortion providers or others who provide any assistance. Continue reading
Sep 29 WATCH: Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearing on Texas abortion ban By News Desk The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing Wednesday on Texas' restrictive abortion ban. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: House Democrats blast treatment of Haitian migrants By Associated Press Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, likened the treatment of the migrants to slavery after scenes of border patrol agents on horseback using their reins to control the crowds. Continue reading
Sep 21 Options shrink for Haitian migrants straddling Texas border By Juan A. Lozano, Eric Gay, Elliot Spagat, María Verza, Associated Press The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government was ramping up expulsion flights to Haiti on Tuesday and Mexico began busing some away from the border. Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch 4:30 U.S. authorities accelerate removal of Haitian asylum-seekers from Texas-Mexico border By PBS NewsHour Weekend Thousands of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have gathered under a bridge in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, where officials have declared a local state of emergency. The crisis has spotlighted Biden's continued use of a Trump-era deportation policy,… Continue watching
Sep 18 US ramps up plan to expel Haitian migrants gathered in Texas By Associated Press The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it moved about 2,000 of the migrants who had gathered under and near a bridge in the border city of Del Rio to other locations on Friday for processing and… Continue reading