Texas woman charged with murder for ‘self-induced abortion’ Abortion rights groups condemn ‘unconstitutional’ charges against woman jailed on $500,000 bond The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022
Tennessee, Texas A&M, Auburn Hosting Key Recruits for Saturday Spring Games 50 college football spring games taking place Saturday means key recruits will see a true sample of their potential future program Sports Illustrated · Apr 9, 2022
Melissa Lucio ‘a symbol of wrongful convictions,’ documentary director says as execution approaches Director Sabrina Van Tassel tells Josh Marcus about award-winning Melissa Lucio documentary and impact of Kim Kardashian’s activism on case The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022
Watch: Mountain lion goes on the attack in front of hikers A mountain lion on the trail stopped a group of hikers in its tracks in a unique encounter at Big Bend National Park in Texas. USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 9, 2022
Mac Engel: How two high school softball teammates grew up to make their mark in baseball FORT WORTH, Texas — In an empty batting cage on a spring Friday night, the two high school juniors would occasionally take a break from hitting to talk about what they were doing, and specifically where they were going. Tribune News Service · Apr 9, 2022
Texas crash: Car ploughs into food cart ‘with at least 11 injured' in horror smash Witnesses said there was a sound like an "explosion" when a car ploughed into a group of people who were gathered at a food cart in Austin, Texas, following a collision Daily Mirror · Apr 9, 2022
Vehicle collides with food truck in Austin, Texas; 11 hurt Authorities say 11 people have been injured in a “major collision” in Austin, Texas, involving pedestrians and two vehicles, one of which hit a food truck The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022
Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocks new abortion law The Idaho Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a new state law that would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allow it to be enforced through lawsuits The Independent UK · Apr 9, 2022
Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas-style 6-week abortion ban The Texas-style law, which was set to go into effect on April 22, will not be enforced while the court considers the case. Axios · Apr 8, 2022
Twenty-one states sue Biden administration over public transport mask mandate Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by… Ballotpedia · Apr 8, 2022
The Independent raises Melissa Lucio death penalty case before the White House Lucio could became first Latina executed in modern Texas history The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022
Tesla Shows Updated Cybertruck, Announces Robotaxi At Texas Factory Opening Elon Musk is aiming for the first version of the Optimus robot to debut in 2023. Motor1 · Apr 8, 2022
Repaired Texas synagogue reopens months after hostage crisis In the three months since Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker and three of his congregants were held at gunpoint in their Texas synagogue, new carpet has been laid in the sanctuary, the walls have been repainted, the entry retiled and new doors installed The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022
Europe calls on Texas governor to grant Melissa Lucio clemency as execution looms The 53-year-old domestic violence victim and mother of 14 has been on death row since her trial over the 2007 death of her two-year-old daughter The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022
Salon · Apr 8, 2022 Paid Texas landlords evicted tenants “They were very well informed that that money was there and it was coming to them, yet they still pushed us out"
USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 8, 2022 Big Ten Expansion. NOW What Does It Do? 22 Thoughts For 2022, No. 14 Big Ten expansion - what can the conference do to keep up after the SEC landed Texas and Oklahoma?
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022 Boy suffers 3rd-degree burns after teacher put sanitiser on his hands and set it on fire in science experiment The Texas middle school teacher resigned after the incident, police say
Benzinga · Apr 8, 2022 Why This Tesla Analyst Sees Giga Texas Serving A 'Hearts And Lungs Of Future EV Production' Tesla Inc.
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 8, 2022 Elon Musk’s space program grows in Texas on land once pitched to Chicago retirees In south Texas, Elon Musk’s “Starbase” has risen where a Chicago radio announcer once planned a retirement community for Chicagoans, many of Polish descent.
France 24 · Apr 8, 2022 Memelord-in-chief: Why Elon Musk could usher in major changes for Twitter It's been a big week for the world's richest man, Elon Musk. Not only has he inaugurated Tesla's new "gigafactory" in Texas, but he's also officially become Twitter's biggest shareholder. But did he do it for the memes, or does he intend to truly transform Twitter and the social media…
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022 ‘I don’t want to see my mom die’: Melissa Lucio’s son hopes for clemency as execution date nears ‘I go to sleep thinking about it. I wake up thinking about it,’ says John Lucio as his mother’s execution nears
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022 7 charged in deaths of 2 fellow inmates at prison in Texas Seven inmates have been charged with killing two fellow prisoners and wounding two others during a January attack at a federal prison in Texas that led to a nationwide lockdown of the federal prison system
Los Angeles Times · Apr 8, 2022 Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.
The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2022 Los Angeles County bans official travel to Florida and Texas over anti-LGBT+ policies ‘This order is discriminatory, harmful and just plain cruel,’ wrote the authors of the Los Angeles County motion in response to the Texas order
France 24 · Apr 8, 2022 Food prices hit record high as war in Ukraine causes market turmoil As the Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, prices of food rose nearly 13 percent in March, up from already record high levels reached the previous month. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization warns that at least a fifth of Ukraine's cropland will not be harvested this year because of…