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For this young Latino, spending more time with family is an upside to the pandemic
Izcan Ordaz, an 18-year-old college freshman, expected to move to campus at the University of Texas at Austin last month. Instead, he’s taking classes virtually from home — and learning a lot more about his parents’ upbringing.
Fracking went on trial and a Texas family beat the industry
For the first time, a jury has awarded nearly $3 million in a case claiming that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, caused health problems for a Texas family. It’s too soon, though, to know if it’s a turning point in the legal battle over fracking’s environmental effects.
American evangelical collectors buy up Dead Sea Scroll fragments
A few fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls have made their ways into the hands of American evangelical Christians — thanks to a man who was one of the first people to come into contact with the scrolls after Bedouin Arabs first found them in the late 1940s.
Texas Abortion Bill Fails to Pass After Filibuster
Around midnight last night, the Texas Senate shutdown Senator Wendy Davis’s (D-Fort Worth) nearly 11 hour filibuster meant to prevent the passage of Senate Bill 5, a restrictive abortion law. The Republican sponsored bill is one of the toughest in the country. It would prevent abortions after 20 weeks and force the closure of all but […]
Oil and Gas Disposal Wells May Be to Blame for Texas Quakes
Tornadoes, maybe. Even hurricanes. But Texans are not used to feeling rumbling earthquakes in their state. At least, they weren’t used to it until recently, when earthquakes began to happen more frequently around the Dallas-Fort Worth area in northern Texas. While the cause of these quakes has yet to be officially determined, scientists and citizens […]
Top of the Hour: Romney Secures Three More Primary Wins, Morning Headlines
Mitt Romney has more than half the delegates needed to clinch the GOP presidential nomination after wins in three more presidential primaries Tuesday. In other headlines, the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area was struck by as many as a dozen tornadoes yesterday; President Obama will sign the STOCK Act today, which bars members of Congress from […]