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SCOTUS Sides With Cruz in Campaign Finance Ruling
On Monday, by a 6-3 vote, the conservative majority United States Supreme Court voted to strike down a federal law capping the number of campaign dollars a candidate could repay themselves with post-election contributions. The vote sides in favor of Te...
Texas Tribune
Op-ed: The Fight for Abortion Rights is Just Beginning
On Saturday, May 14, pro-abortion protests kicked off nationwide in 400 cities due to the United States Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v. Wade. Over 1,000 protestors gathered at City Hall at the Bans Off Our Bodies March of Mahogany protest in...
Texas Tribune
Op-ed: I Had an Abortion at 19, and I Don’t Regret it
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 8, the overbearing and intrusive six-week abortion ban in the 2021 legislative session, a specific piece of my brain and heart that I closed off for a long time started to open up. The shame and s...
Texas Tribune
Republicans Cry Over Pro-Choice Protests, Democrats Cave on Roe
On Wednesday, in a 51-49 vote the United States Senate failed to pass the Women’s Health Protection with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) voting with Republicans. “They’re trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wa...
Politics
Texas voters want abortion access, despite Republican rhetoric
On Monday, Texas Republicans had an uncanny reaction to the leak of a Supreme Court of the United States draft opinion which plans to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case which guarantees a federal right to an abortion. Not surprisingly, Tex...
Policy
How to access abortion in a post-Roe world
Monday night, a draft opinion leaked by POLITICO showed the Supreme Court of the United States is set to overturn Roe v. Wade. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito writes: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.The Constitution makes no re...
Texas Tribune
Mothers protest their children’s unsolved cases at HPD HQ
On Wednesday, April 27, families of unsolved cases protested outside of Houston Police Department headquarters, demanding justice, accountability, and answers in the deaths of Tailor Clark, Alexander “AJ” Silva, Aliyah Wilson, Diamond Alvarez, Xa...
Politics
Staci Childs on her run for Texas Board of Education District 4
A former educator and now defense attorney Staci Childs is transitioning into politics as she prepares for the runoff election race for the Texas Board of Education District 4 seat. In addition to her practice, she is also the founder of the non-...
Texas Tribune
The Latest on the Fort Bend County Commissioner race
All eyes are on the Fort Bend County Commissioner Precinct 4 race after incumbent Ken DeMerchant was unseated from his position after getting 14 percent of the vote in the March primary. Only 148 votes led candidate Neeta Sane to a first-place standing...
Texas Tribune
Four Black Women who made the path for KBJ’s confirmation
403 years after the first enslaved people stepped foot on American soil, the United States has officially nominated the first Black female justice to the Supreme Court. Now Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson represents not only a minority female br...
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CEO outlook dims sharply, with more than half expecting a recession ahead, survey shows
Corporate executives are taking a dim view of their prospects, with a majority now expecting a recession ahead, according to a closely watched business survey released Wednesday.The Conference Board measure of CEO sentiment showed that 57% of responden...
DNA
Cannes 2022: Deepika Padukone, Pooja Hegde, Tamannaah Bhatia dance to Mame Khan’s Ghoomar, video goes viral
International film festival Cannes 2022 begins on a high note, as Deepika Padukone, Pooja Hegde, Tamannaah Bhatia and Urvashi Rautela danced to Mame Khan's song Ghoomar. Bollywood lovely ladies were accompanied by iconic folk singer-composer Mame Khan ...
DNA
AFC Cup 2022: Gokulam Kerala shock ATK Mohun Bagan with 4-2 statement win
Having successfully retained their I-league crown recently, Gokulam Kerala stunned Indian Super League (ISL) heavyweights ATK Mohun Bagan with a statement 4-2 win in the AFC Cup 2022 at Salt Lake Stadium on Wednesday. The match between Gokulam K...
World News
UN experts say mass eviction of Palestinians a possible war crime
Geneva, Switzerland – Israel’s decision to evict approximately 1,200 Palestinians from their homes in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank may amount to a war crime, UN human rights experts said.The decision to forcibly transfer the Palestinian resi...
DNA
Inflation alert! After lemon, price of this essential vegetable goes through the roof
After the cost of lemon touched unprecedented heights, tomato has become the latest vegetable to put a huge dent in the monthly grocery budgets of consumers. The price of tomato has soared in several parts of the country due to a number of factors. In ...