Tag: Texas
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Texas judge won’t drop lawsuit after commission rescinds LGBTQ rights warning
A Texas judge said she will not drop her lawsuit against a state commission that publicly sanctioned her for refusing to officiate at same-sex weddings, even though the commission withdrew its ethics warning last month. Judge Dianne Hensley, an elected Texas justice of the peace who hears small claims and misdemeanor cases, said in a filing…
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Solar storm brings northern lights as far south as Texas
A severe geomagnetic storm brought spectacular light displays to many parts of the United States on Thursday night, with skies as far south as San Antonio bathed in rich hues of magenta and green. The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights as they are commonly known, are often more visible in Earth’s polar regions, but due…
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Supreme Court declines to hear Biden appeal in Texas emergency room abortion dispute
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Biden administration appeal in a dispute over emergency room abortion care in Texas, leaving in place a lower court victory for the Republican-led state. The decision, months after the court wrestled with a similar case from Idaho without reaching a conclusive decision, constitutes a setback…
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Texas inmate Robert Roberson could be first U.S. execution for case of ‘shaken baby’ death
A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country’s first execution for “shaken baby syndrome,” a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, Robert…
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Thousands of unclaimed bodies sent to Texas medical school — 1,800 names released
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. For five years, the unclaimed dead of Dallas and Tarrant counties were delivered to the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. There, the bodies were assessed based on their usefulness to medical…
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Texas man says he smashed Taylor Swift-signed guitar he bid $4,000 on at auction as ‘a joke’
There were more splinters than teardrops left on a Taylor Swift-autographed guitar after a Texas man smashed it apart as “a joke” — after paying thousands for it at auction, the man said Tuesday. Gary Estes, 67, says he paid $4,000 for the instrument at the Ellis County Wild Game Dinner in Waxahachie, an annual…
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Texas lawmaker vows to ban medical research on unclaimed bodies after NBC News investigation
This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research. A Texas state legislator is vowing to ban the use of unclaimed bodies for research in response to an NBC News investigation that found a local medical program obtained and studied hundreds of human specimens without…
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Black student punished for his hairstyle wants to return to the Texas school that suspended him
HOUSTON — A Black high school student in Texas who was punished for nearly all of his junior year over his hairstyle has left his school district rather than spend another year of in-school suspension, according to his attorney. But Darryl George, 18, would like to return to his Houston-area high school in the Barbers Hill school…
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World’s first 3D-printed hotel takes shape in Texas
MARFA, Texas — It looks like any other 3D printer — except it’s the size of a crane and is, layer by layer, building a hotel in the Texan desert. El Cosmico, an existing hotel and campground on the outskirts of the city of Marfa, is expanding. It is building 43 new hotel units and…
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Trump campaigns in Pennsylvania; Doug Emhoff to speak for Harris in Texas
In an ad released this morning, the Harris campaign targeted in vitro fertilization, claiming that another Trump administration could put in jeopardy access to IVF. The ad features a military wife in Arizona who is undergoing IVF treatments and expresses concern about possible threats to the procedure. “My husband is in the military. He volunteered…