Andrew Quentin Taake, 32, was arrested on Friday and charged with five federal offenses, including assaulting officers, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds. According to the charging documents, Taake discussed his participation in the riot with “Witness 1” …
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Candida auris may not be the household name that Covid-19 is, but that doesn’t mean scientists aren’t concerned about it. In a report released on Friday, the CDC noted that clusters of Candida auris cases have been reported in hospitals in Texas and Washington, DC since January, originating in healthcare …
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Marc Anthony Bane, 45, and Tara Renee Dillon, 33, were taken before a US magistrate judge on Thursday to answer charges of attempting to smuggle 89 migrants in a tractor trailer, the US Justice Department said. The day before, the same judge heard the charges against Michael Warren Mccoy, 43, …
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After briefly floating in space, the craft descended back to Earth, using parachutes to guide it back to the flat terrain of west Texas. Bezos was joined by his brother Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch teenager whose wealthy father paid for an auctioned …
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Texas House Democratic Caucus Leadership announced that one of their members found out they tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday evening, and two others received positive tests on Saturday. They will now be required to isolate for 10 days and then be retested. All of those infected have been vaccinated. …
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Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) reported the first confirmed case of the rare viral illness in a statement on Friday. The infected individual arrived in the US from Lagos, Nigeria, on July 8 via Atlanta, and traveled from Atlanta to Dallas Love Field airport on July 9. The …
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“Defending the right of the American people to vote is as American as apple pie,” Harris told the Democrat legislators on Tuesday, a day after 51 of them flew to Washington on private jets to prevent the Texas House from having the quorum necessary to vote on bills. Harris praised …
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As the Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives geared up to vote on a controversial election security bill on Monday, more than 50 Democratic lawmakers piled aboard private jets and skipped town for Washington DC. Although the Texas House is split 83-67 Republican, the absence of the Democrats meant a quorum …
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“My Democratic colleagues and I are leaving the state to break quorum and kill the Texas voter suppression bill,” James Talarico, who represents District 52 in the state House, tweeted on Monday afternoon. “We’re flying to DC to demand Congress pass the For The People Act and save our democracy.” …
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Hervis Rogers, 62, was a felon on parole at the time he voted in the November 2018 general election and the March 2020 Democratic primary, according to a two-count indictment by Texas prosecutors. His arrest set off a storm of criticism from the ACLU, anti-incarceration activists, and left-wing pundits, who …
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