During a debate against Rep. Colin Allred on Tuesday night, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz repeatedly refused to say whether he supports the right of victims of rape or incest to have an abortion. “I’m curious, why do you keep asking me that?” Cruz said to a debate moderator when he …
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Dallas rapper BigXThaPlug has a presence that stands out on a crowded midtown Manhattan street. He and his team walk toward the Rolling Stone offices as a united front, cracking jokes while the fall sun flares off their gleaming 600 Entertainment chains. BigX greets me with Texas hospitality as we …
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Marcus Silva, the Texas man who sought to exact revenge on his ex-wife by suing her best friends for $1 million dollars each under Texas’ abortion ban, has asked a court to dismiss his claims. For the women Silva targeted, a legal nightmare that spanned more than a year and …
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The Supreme Court will allow Texas to continue enforcing itsban on abortions — including emergency abortionsin hospitals. On Monday, the nation’s highest court declined an appeal from the Biden administration, keeping in place a lower court order that says hospitals cannot be compelled to provide care that would violate Texas’ …
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JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …
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The state of Texas is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to continue denying emergency medical care to pregnant women, pretty please. The request, which the justices will consider at conference on Monday, September 30, comes on the heels of a new report that shows the state’s maternal mortality …
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This week at a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delegates at the Republican Oarty convention quietly approved a platform with a retooled “Right to Life” plank. Journalists were barred from the proceedings, but reporter Logan Finney of Idaho Reports obtained the language ahead of the event and, reading it, it’s …
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A judge on Friday moved to halt an investigation by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) into the liberal watchdog journalism organization Media Matters, issuing a preliminary injunction in the case. Calling Media Matters a “radical left-wing” and “anti-free speech organization,” Paxton claimed to be investigating “potential fraudulent activity” by …
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The walls are closing in around Ted Cruz, and the Republican senator is lashing out. Cruz, who has served two terms as Texas junior senator, is facing a tough reelection challenge from former NFL player and current U.S. Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), who won Texas’ Democratic Senate primary in a …
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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Texas can begin enforcing a controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest individuals on suspicion of being undocumented border crossers. Hours later, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the state from acting on the court’s decision. In a 6-3 …
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