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There was a time in the recent past when America did much to make it easier for people to vote. Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to undo the vestiges and practices of voter suppression based on race and ethnicity.
Investigators surround the scene in a field near Lockhart, Texas where a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people collided with power lines Saturday, July 30, 2016, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life." Investigators surround the scene in a field near Lockhart, Texas where a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people collided with power lines Saturday, July 30, 2016, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life."
'It went up like a big fireball': witness heard popping sounds before hot air balloon crashed near power lines in Texas killing 16 The accident on a rural field in central Texas occurred about three years after 19 people, including nine Hongkongers, were killed in a hot-air balloon crash in Luxor, Egypt A hot air balloon burst into flames over central Texas after apparently striking power lines and plunged into a field, killing all 16 people aboard in one of the deadliest such accidents on record, police and eyewitnesses said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the fiery crash occurred at about 7:40 a.m. Saturday near Lockhart, a town about 50km south of Austin, the Texas capital.
Two officials familiar with the investigation into the crash in Texas of a hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people say it was operated by Heart of Texas Hot Air Balloon Rides. The hot air balloon caught fire and crashed in a pasture Saturday morning near Lockhart, which is about 30 miles south of Austin.
LOCKHART, Texas -- A hot air balloon carrying at least 16 people caught on fire and crashed in Central Texas on Saturday, causing what authorities described as a "significant loss of life." Erik Grosof with the National Transportation Safety Board would not provide an exact number of how many people died.
The head of Texas' delegation to the Democratic National Convention says party unity has been accomplished despite a high-profile dust-up earlier in the week. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said by phone Friday, "I was scared to death on Monday and everybody was."
For some people, the attack on police officers by a gunman in Dallas this summer brought to mind another attack by a sniper in Austin 50 years ago - on Aug. 1, 1966. That's when student Charles Whitman stuck his rifle over the edge of the clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and started shooting.
The latest version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion suggests medical connections between terminating pregnancies and heightened risks of breast cancer and depression. The new version of a booklet that Texas produces for women considering an abortion is being criticized for suggesting that terminating pregnancies can lead to heightened risks for breast cancer and depression.
Sen. Ted Cruz "freaked out" over news reports that Rep. JoaquA n Castro is eyeing a run against him in 2018, the Democrat said Thursday. "He freaked out," Castro told reporters at a Texas delegation breakfast meeting, when asked about a fundraising email Cruz's campaign sent after the Democrat publicly discussed a possible Senate bid .
A group of mothers of African-Americans killed by police or gun violence spoke somberly at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, imploring the attentive crowd and a nation watching at home on TV, to remember their fallen children and insisting that they did not die in vain. Known as "Mothers of the Movement," this sisterhood of seven which held in common the singular tragedy of having lost their sons to cops or guns, bravely took the stage amid a standing ovation and chants of "Black Lives Matter."
The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge is being buried Monday. Hundreds of law enforcement officers from around the country streamed past the casket Monday of a slain Baton Rouge police officer, some solemnly saluting and others making the sign of the cross as they paid their respects... Authorities say two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.
One week after Republicans sounded the gavel opening their gathering of party faithful, Democrats will do the same - even as they acknowledge familiar concerns regarding security, safety and a heightened state of tensions around the country. As much as the traditions of these political conventions are similar, we expect Democrats, at least publicly, to represent a more united front than Republicans did in Cleveland.
As Heidi Cruz left Cleveland's Quicken Loans arena after her husband, Ted, gave his stemwinder at the Republican National Convention, she was escorted by security through a hostile crowd. Apparently, people in the audience were annoyed that Cruz hadn't endorsed Donald “I Call Him Lyin' Ted” Trump.
Political conventions are echo chambers designed to generate feelings of invincibility, sending forth the party faithful with a spring in their steps and hope in their hearts. Who would want to be a wet blanket at such moveable feasts? Steve Munisteri would.
WASHINGTON The main purpose of the modern political convention is to produce four days of televised propaganda. The subsidiary function, now that nominees are invariably chosen in advance, is structural: Unify the party before the final battle.
A night after being booed off the Republican National Convention stage, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz remained defiant about Donald Trump Thursday, saying he is not a "servile puppy dog" and vowing not to support anyone who wages personal attacks against his family.
TRUMP: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, points toward Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence after Pence's acceptance speech during the third day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20. 1. IT'S TRUMP'S MOMENT TO TALK TO THE NATION - AND GOP DOUBTERS The most important speech of his presidential campaign will bring down the balloons on a convention marked by divided loyalties and unwanted distractions. 2. CRUZ JEERED AS HE REFUSES TO ENDORSE TRUMP The Texas senator tries to link arms with Republicans at the party's national convention but is booed lustily by delegates when he ended his speech without offering the New York billionaire his endorsement.
Sen. Ted Cruz's Texas-size political ambitions will be on full display Wednesday as the primary runner-up delivers a prime-time convention speech, but holds off on a full-throated endorsement of Republican nominee Donald Trump. The conservative senator repeatedly clashed with Trump during a bitter primary fight, with the New York businessman mocking the lawmaker as "Lyin' Ted."
The first night of the Republican National Convention is focused on national security, with presumptive nominee Donald Trump designating the theme as "Make America Safe Again." The highlight of the evening will be when Trump's wife, Melania, speaks, with her husband slated to introduce her in his first public appearance in Cleveland.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to questions about the police shootings during a news conference at City Hall in Dallas in early July. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the targeted killing of a police officer to be deemed a hate crime in Texas and urged lawmakers to send him such a bill to sign during next year's legislative session.