texas
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White Woman Jailed After Lying About Being Raped and Kidnapped by 3 Black Men: Police
Eighteen-year-old Breana Harmon Talbott of Denison, Texas, ran into a church and told people she had been kidnapped and raped by three masked black men. Talbott, who was wearing only a bra, T-shirt and underwear, was bloodied and looked battered. News of the incident swept the community and incited racist tweets on social media. One…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Police Commanders Reassigned in Probe of Leaked Arrest Video of Jacqueline Craig
Two Fort Worth, Texas, police commanders have been temporarily reassigned while investigators probe who leaked police video and other materials in the brutal arrest of Jacqueline Craig and her daughters by Officer William Martin. According to CBS News, the Fort Worth Police Department launched an internal investigation after Martin’s body-camera video was leaked and his…
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Rick Perry Wanted to Abolish the Energy Department; Now He Runs It
Remember when former Texas Gov. Rick Perry wanted to abolish the Department of Energy? Don’t worry—apparently no one else does, either, and on Thursday Perry was confirmed to become the secretary of the department, because of course he was. The Senate voted 62-37 Thursday to confirm Perry as energy secretary, the Washington Post reports. On…
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Trump’s DOJ to Drop Charge Texas Voter-ID Law Is Intentionally Discriminatory
I would say this current administration is looking funny in the light, but truth be told, it was looking funny in the dark to begin with. And now, on Monday, in a huge reversal, the Justice Department under the Trump administration has decided to drop the department’s position that Republican state lawmakers pushed Texas’ strict…
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Colored People’s Justice: Jacqueline Craig’s Attorney Speaks Out
I first met Jacqueline Craig in an investigation room of the Fort Worth (Texas) City Jail the night she was arrested. By the time I arrived at the jail, the video of her encounter with Police Officer William Martin had just begun to go viral and spark outrage all over the country. She wouldn’t have…
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Texas From Removing Medicaid Funds From Planned Parenthood
A federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday that state health officials cannot remove Planned Parenthood from Medicaid, ensuring that the women’s health provider will remain in the federal program at least until a federal lawsuit is settled. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks issued the preliminary injunction that temporarily blocked the move and said the state…
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Pastor Finds Burned Cross Outside Historically Black Texas Church; Authorities Say Vandalism
Pastor Bill Burton of the St. Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically black church in Alto, Texas, is convinced that a burned cross found near his church was the result of a hate crime, although local authorities are hesitant to label it as anything more than vandalism, CBS19 reports. According to the news station,…
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Texas High School Students Did Nazi Salute for ‘Silly’ Class Photo
Honestly, the racism (and overall general ignorance) present in American schools is just out of this world. And in our latest update of “Who’s going to be expelled next?” Cypress Ranch High School students are now under intense scrutiny after apparently doing a Nazi salute for a class photo, Click2Houston reports. According to the site,…
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10-Year-Old Texas Boy Invents Device to Stop Deaths of Children in Hot Cars
Bishop Curry V may be young (10 years old, to be precise), but the little kid from Texas has some big ideas. He’s currently working on a device that could help prevent children from dying in hot cars. According to NBC Washington, overall, the number of children who died in hot cars increased across the…