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President Trump hopes to encourage more U.S. manufacturing with his import taxes on foreign goods. But an online experiment suggests most people aren’t willing to pay a premium for a “Made in the USA” product. Angela Weiss/AFP hide caption toggle caption Angela Weiss/AFP Ramon van Meer sells showerheads made in China and Vietnam. When President […]
The Texas governor Greg Abbott on Saturday signed a law making more than 5 million students eligible to use state funds for private schools, a watershed moment in the conservative campaign to remake public education in the US. Texas is allocating $1bn for the first two years of the program to offer parents vouchers to […]
Measles cases in Texas rose to 663 on Tuesday, according to the state’s health department, an increase of 17 cases since 25 April, as the US battles one of its worst outbreaks of the previously eradicated childhood disease. Cases in Gaines county, the center of the outbreak, rose to 396, three more from its last […]
CNN — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case against the US Postal Service filed by a Texas woman who claims her carrier declined to deliver the mail to her rental properties because she is Black. Lebene Konan . . .
Incendiary Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett suggested the United States needs immigrants for farm jobs because black people “are done picking cotton” while speaking at a historically black church over the weekend. The far left congresswoman’s eyebrow-raising remark on Sunday came as she was making the case for the country’s migrant population she believes was […]
At least one person died as severe weather erupted across a vast stretch of the United States on Sunday amid warnings of widespread damaging winds, tornadoes and hail as large as baseballs. A tree fell on a travel trailer that was camped along the Illinois River between Tahlequah and Kansas, Okla., during heavy winds early […]
The Texas race for a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will feature a number of Black Catholics, including former Houston city councilwoman Amanda Edwards and Democratic consultant Isaiah Martin. The heavily Democratic 18th congressional district was represented by former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner for just two months before his unexpected death in Washington on March […]
The Texas race for a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will feature a number of Black Catholics, including former Houston city councilwoman Amanda Edwards and Democratic consultant Isaiah Martin. The heavily Democratic 18th congressional district was represented by former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner for just two months before his unexpected death in Washington on March […]
The Texas race for a vacant seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will feature a number of Black Catholics, including former Houston city councilwoman Amanda Edwards and Democratic consultant Isaiah Martin. The heavily Democratic 18th congressional district was represented by former Houston mayor Sylvester Turner for just two months before his unexpected death in […]
A sprawling storm system crossing the U.S. on Friday caused deadly crashes, damaged buildings and fanned more than 100 wildfires in several central states, prompting evacuation orders in some communities. More than a dozen tornadoes touched down in Missouri and Arkansas, and threats of more loomed for the Mississippi Valley into the night and the […]