A Texas judge blasted Governor Greg Abbott for "taking his orders" from Donald Trump over the announcement that there would be audits into the state's presidential election results—which followed a request for a review from the former president. The Texas Secretary of State announced the audit into the results from Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin counties on Thursday. It came just after Trump urged Abbott to conduct an audit into the state's election results. "Despite my big win in Texas, I hear Texans want an election audit!" the former president wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday. "You know your fellow Texans have big questions about the November 2020 Election." Following the announcement, some Texas county judges expressed frustration, saying they do not know what the audits entail and that they learned about them through a press release from the office of the secretary of state, The Texas Tribune reported. "This is a weak Governor openly and shamelessly …
EXCLUSIVE: Texas House Republicans Urge Biden To Declare Emergency At The Border
A majority of Texas House Republicans asked President Joe Biden to declare an emergency at the southern border, according to a letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation Wednesday. Fourteen of Texas’ 23 Republican representatives signed on to the letter penned by Rep. Lance Gooden asking Biden to approve Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s request for a federal emergency declaration in response to the border crisis, according to the letter. The Republicans cited a massive influx of around 16,000 migrants, mostly from Haiti , who established a temporary camp under an international bridge in Del Rio, Texas, over the weekend. “The crisis at the border has reached a tipping point. The president can no longer deny an emergency exists, and Texas cannot be expected to continue shouldering the cost of securing our southern border,” Gooden told the DCNF. “President Biden must grant the governor’s request for a federal emergency declaration.” Texas National Guard Soldiers & …
No. 16 Hogs end long skid to No. 7 Texas A&M
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for September 25 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. KJ Jefferson threw for 202 yards and two touchdowns before getting banged up to start the second half and No. 16 Arkansas held on for a 20-10 win over seventh-ranked Texas A&M on Saturday, the first in the series for the Razorbacks in their 10 seasons as Southeastern Conference foes. Texas A&M (3-1, 0-1 SEC) also had its overall 11-game winning streak snapped. Jefferson came up limping and favoring his left leg after getting tackled out of bounds to start the second half, and left a few plays later. But he did return to the game late, and was on the field to take the final kneel-down in the SEC opener to cap Arkansas’ first 4-0 start since 2003. The Aggies hadn’t allowed a passing touchdown this season until Jefferson’s 85-yard score to Treylon Burks, who pushed by a defender and match the …
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Motor racing-W series cancels Mexico round, to end season in Texas
LONDON (Reuters) - The all-female W Series, which supports Formula One, has cancelled its Mexican round and will end the season with a race double at next month's U.S. Grand Prix in Austin, organisers said on Thursday. Mexico would have followed on from Texas but the race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez has been pushed back to Nov. 7 and paired with Brazil instead. "The changes to Formula One’s calendar would have resulted in a standalone W Series race there (Mexico), which would have been logistically impossible for us," said chief executive Catherine Bond Muir in a statement. The races in Texas on Oct. 23 and 24 will be the first time W Series has raced outside Europe, as well as the first on the Sunday of a Formula One weekend. Britons Alice Powell and Jamie Chadwick, the inaugural champion in 2019, are level on points at the top of the standings after six rounds. W Series did not race last year due to the pandemic. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by …
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They Investigate Police Killings. Their Record Is Wanting.
When the Texas Rangers learned that a woman had died in a jail south of Dallas, they put Adam Russell on the case. He found that there had been a struggle between the woman, Kelli Leanne Page, 46, who was being held on drug charges, and two guards, who entered her cell because they said she would not stop banging a hairbrush against the door. One jailer threw her to the floor, punched her in the face while they scuffled and piled atop her as blood streamed from her nose. The other, a trainee weighing 390 pounds, pinned her down until she stopped breathing. Six hours into his investigation, Ranger Russell indicated in his notes, he was not inclined to blame the guards for her death. And when an autopsy later determined that Ms. Page was the victim of a homicide — having died on Oct. 8, 2017, of a form of asphyxiation — Ranger Russell appeared not to reconsider. Instead, he obtained a second opinion from a retired chief medical examiner, who read the forensic report and said …
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‘Heartless’ United Airlines Vaccine Mandate Halted in Federal Court
United Airlines reluctantly agreed to postpone its company-wide Chinese coronavirus vaccine mandate Friday until a federal judge is able to hold further hearings in a case brought by six of the airline’s employees. Evidently fearing it could lose Friday’s court battle and be slapped with a temporary restraining order (TRO), the airline pivoted 180 degrees and agreed to postpone its mandate until October 15. United Airlines originally told its 67,000 U.S. employees they must be vaccinated against Chinese coronavirus (or secure an exemption) by September 27 or face termination. Instead, unvaccinated employees will now be able to continue working normally while the plaintiffs and the company gather what they need to proceed in court. United Airlines employees wear masks as they walk through Terminal 1 at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) . Mark Paoletta, a partner at Schaerr Jaffe representing the plaintiff said in …
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Mexico urges Haitians at U.S.-Mexico border to give up and head south
Mexican officials are urging Haitians on the Texas border trying to reach the United States to give up and return to Mexico's frontier with Guatemala to request asylum, even as discontent grows over the treatment meted out to the beleaguered migrants. Up to 14,000 mostly Haitians were camped just north of the Rio Grande river this month as they attempted to enter the United States, but hundreds retreated to Mexico after U.S. officials began sending planes of people back to Haiti. On September 23, the U.S. special envoy to Haiti quit in protest over the Biden administration's deportations of migrants to the Caribbean nation, which has been rocked bythe assassination of its President, gang violence and natural disasters. That followed widespread outrage stirred up by images of a U.S. border guard on horseback unfurling a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants near their camp. Yet pressure is also growing on U.S. President Joe Biden to tighten the border, and Mexico's National …
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New infrastructure bill can help break the cycle of grid failure
The recurring news cycle of extreme weather events leading to power outages over the past several years has begun to feel like “ Groundhog Day .” The story starts with a hurricane, wildfire, heatwave, ice storm, windstorm or other disasters — made more likely and intensified by climate change — leading to widespread outages. Next, the electricity industry and policymakers prioritize comfortable solutions that prop up the status quo. And when the next crisis comes and leads to more blackouts, the outcome is the same and the cycle repeats. We can’t keep hitting “snooze,” rolling over and pretending that solutions that have worked for a grid conceived in the 1950s are the only choice for the realities of the 2020s and beyond. They are not. Increasingly, we have affordable solutions that leverage 21st-century technology to meet 21st-century threats. At the time of writing this, more than 10,000 people remain without power in Louisiana after a category 4 hurricane ripped through the …
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Judge erupts at Jan. 6 defendant who refused mask: ‘You don’t make the rules’
A federal judge on Friday told off a Capitol riot defendant who refused to wear a mask during his hearing, telling the defendant “You don’t make the rules.” The confrontation took place during a hearing for defendant Daniel Goodwyn, according The Washington Post . He pleaded not guilty in April to five charges in connection with the Jan. 6 riot. According to court records, prosecutors were trying to revoke Goodwyn’s pretrial release over his behavior, including repeatedly flouting orders to wear a mask. ADVERTISEMENT During Friday’s hearing, Goodwyn’s attorney, Daniel Hull, explained to Judge Reggie Walton that Goodwyn had autism, which makes it harder for him to wear masks, the Post reported. But when asked why he wouldn’t wear one, Goodwyn simply said “it stresses me out,” adding “I believe I would not cause someone to die by not wearing a mask.” Instead of locking him up, Walton decided to order Goodwyn to wear a mask whenever he meets with pretrial …
Uncertain future for some as Haitian migrant camp closes
6 DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — As Haitian migrants stepped off a white U.S. Border Patrol van in the Texas border city of Del Rio after learning they'd be allowed to stay in the country for now, a man in a neon yellow vest stood nearby and quietly surveyed them. Some carried sleeping babies, and one toddler walked behind her mother wrapped in a silver heat blanket. As they passed by to be processed by a local nonprofit that provides migrants with basic essentials and helps them reach family in the U.S., many smiled — happy to be starting a new leg of their journey after a chaotic spell in a crowded camp near a border bridge that links Del Rio with Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. Dave, who didn’t want to share his last name because he feared a backlash for trying to help people who entered the U.S. illegally, didn’t see his friend Ruth in this group. But he wore the bright safety vest so she would be able to spot him in the crowd when she arrived …
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