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Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack of a white mentally disabled man that was captured by a cellphone camera and shown live on Facebook are set to return to court where they are expected to... Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack of a white mentally disabled man that was captured by a cellphone camera and shown live on Facebook are set to return to court where they are expected to enter pleas in the case. The howling winds of the biggest snowstorm of the winter to hit the Northeast have been replaced by the scraping of shovels and the growl of snowblowers.
The four are charged, with aggravate... Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack of a white mentally disabled man that was captured by a cellphone camera and shown live on Facebook are set to return to court where they are expected to... Four black people charged with a hate crime in an attack of a white mentally disabled man that was captured by a cellphone camera and shown live on Facebook are set to return to court where they are expected to enter pleas in the case. The howling winds of the biggest snowstorm of the winter to hit the Northeast have been replaced by the scraping of shovels and the growl of snowblowers.
On February 3, 2017, President Trump took actions aimed at alleviating some of the regulatory burdens on the financial services industry. Through a Presidential Memorandum , President Trump ordered the DOL to "examine the Fiduciary Duty Rule to determine whether it may adversely affect the ability of Americans to gain access to retirement information and financial advice" and prepare an updated economic and legal analysis concerning the impact of the rule, while taking into account several enumerated considerations.
After a 16-hour hearing that included tears, heckling, bursts of anger and warnings from lawmakers to witnesses to respect the rules of the Capitol's upper chamber, the Texas Senate's State Affairs Committee voted 7-2 along party lines early Friday morning to advance a controversial state-based immigration bill to the full Senate. Senate Bill 4, commonly known as the anti-sanctuary cities bill, would punish local government entities and college campuses that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials or enforce immigration laws.
A Texas Senate panel shrugged off 16 hours of sometimes tearful pleas and defiant opposition to approve a "sanctuary cities" proposal that would withhold grant funding from local jurisdictions that don't hand over immigrants already in custody for possible deportation. A 7-2 vote around 12:45 a.m. Friday from the chamber's powerful State Affairs Committee sends the bill to the full Senate, where a vote could come as early as next week.
Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, Justice Nathan Hecht, gives his State of the Judiciary speech on Feb. 1, 2017 to a joint session of the Texas Legislature. Partisan efficiency experts might love the time-saving charms of straight-ticket voting, but a number of the state's top elected officials are ready to outlaw the practice.
Texas and New Mexico are locked in a battle before the U.S. Supreme Court over management of one of the longest rivers in North America and there's no indication the case will be dismissed. So New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas is joining forces with downstream users on the Rio Grande to develop a new strategy that he says will incorporate the best available science.
When Trump administration appointee Wilbur Ross sat for a hearing on his commerce secretary nomination, one name kept coming up: Toyota. A senator from Vice President Mike Pence's home state asked to be reassured trade reforms wouldn't compromise Indiana jobs.
U.S. Federal District Judge Sam Sparks took sharp aim at the state of Texas' flimsy defense of a rule that forces women to bury or cremate their fetal tissue after an abortion or miscarriage. In a 24-page order issued Friday, Jan. 27, that again halted the anti-choice rule, Sparks hit back at the state health department for proposing a regulation that may amount to a "pretext for restricting abortion access."
Oil companies poured more than $28 billion into the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeastern New Mexico last year to meet rising crude prices. That's more than triple what companies invested in the shale formation in 2015.
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A Marine Corps official says female infantry Marines will be sleeping in makeshift shelters next to their male counterparts when out in the field and no special accommodation will be offered to them Female infantry Marines will now be sleeping in makeshift shelters next to their male counterparts when out in the field and the Marine Corps says no special accommodation will be offered to them A Massachusetts man who authorities say assaulted a Muslim airline employee at New York's Kennedy Airport is facing hate crime charges A Massachusetts man who authorities say assaulted a Muslim airline employee at New York's Kennedy Airport is facing hate crime charges Texas prison officials at least temporarily delayed the scheduled Thursday night execution of a man convicted of a fatal robbery at a Dallas-area sandwich shop while the U.S. Supreme Court considered multiple... A man convicted of ... (more)
Congress has come under fire from industry, government officials and its own members for having piecemeal oversight of cyber. That could change with the introduction of a Senate resolution to create a Select Committee on Cybersecurity.
President Donald Trump's call on Wednesday for a "major investigation" into voter fraud, despite no evidence to support his claims that millions of ballots cast illegally cost him the popular vote, led many critics to pounce on him as thin-skinned. But some voting rights experts and Democrats say they fear something more pernicious than a bruised ego at play: a long-range bid to impose tougher voting requirements nationwide.
President Donald Trump announced his long-awaited plan Wednesday to build a wall on the 1,954-mile U.S. border with Mexico, calling for its "immediate construction" to stop the flow of smuggling and drugs. One-third of the U.S.-Mexico border, or 653 miles, is already studded with fence in a potpourri of styles, from menacing barriers to those that can be easily hopped.
Prosecutors say a North Texas woman who claimed to be the "voice of God" must serve six years in prison for forcing two immigrants to work for years without pay. Olga Sandra Murra of Fort Worth was sentenced Monday and ordered to pay the immigrants $795,000.
President Donald Trump is expected to take executive action Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. That's according to a person with knowledge of the action.
The Supreme Court declined Texas officials' appeal in the ongoing battle over the state's voter identification law Monday, meaning an earlier decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which found the law violates the Voting Rights Act - will stand. Chief Justice John Roberts, however, took the unusual step of offering an explanation for why the Supreme Court chose not to hear the appeal.
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In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry smiles as he leaves Trump Tower in New York. Perry was for "all of the above" on energy production before President Barack Obama embraced the strategy.