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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, R-Friendswood, was
CNN — Adrienne Keeler remembers struggling to stay awake in church on New Year’s Eve as a child while her family praised God for carrying them through another year. Back then, Keeler said she couldn’t wait to get to the part of the church service where everyone said, “Happy New Year!”
Why Global Citizens Should Care South Africa’s Freedom Day recognises the first democratic election that took place in the country after apartheid, on April 27, 1994. Continuing to carry out Nelson Mandela’s legacy and live in a democracy has led the country on the path to achieving the United Nations’ Global Goal 16 for peace, […]
Russian-American journalist is accused of failing to register as a ‘foreign agent’. A court in Russia has extended the pre-trial detention of Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until February. Kurmasheva, an editor for the United States government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir service, has been accused of failing to register as a “foreign agent” and […]
The PRC, Vietnam, and Taiwan each claim sovereignty over the Paracel Islands. All three claimants require either permission or advance notification before a military vessel or warship engages in “innocent passage” through their territorial sea, in violation of international law. Under customary international law as reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention, the ships […]
STUDIO CITY, California — Some of the mystery and controversy shrouding a sprawling Los Angeles-area property owned by a national Black Lives Matter nonprofit have dissipated for dozens of families grieving a loved one killed by police. The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc., which was widely criticized last year for purchasing a $6 […]
Attorneys for two national law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a federal case in Idaho regarding whether emergency room physicians can continue to be shielded from prosecution under the state’s abortion ban. If the court were to grant the motion, ER doctors in Idaho would again be subject to criminal […]
The Gilded Age was a period toward the end of the 19th century marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Just a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Gilded Age ushered in a Black aristocracy. In a letter published in the April 22, 1852 issue of the Frederick Douglass Papers, […]
Istanbul, Turkey — A “freedom convoy for Palestine” is on its way from Istanbul to a United States military base in southern Turkey in solidarity with the people of Gaza as Israel wages war on the besieged enclave. Cars and vans displaying Palestinian and some Turkish flags departed from Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium on Friday […]