Tag: Texas

Man Arrested After Throwing Beer Can at GOP Senator Ted Cruz

Police arrested a 33-year-old man who allegedly flung a beer can at Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during a victory parade of the Houston Astros on Monday. Cruz was on a celebration float with family after the baseball team won the World Series over the weekend when an unidentified bystander threw a beer can that “struck…


Texas’s Mayra Flores Could Make History Again With Polls Neck and Neck

HARLINGEN, Texas—Democrats called Republican Mayra Flores’s win in Texas Congressional District 34 this summer a fluke. Democrats, who didn’t put a lot of resources into the special election that Flores won, have reasoned that the midterms would draw out more of the Democratic base in the heavily Hispanic district. They were confident that Democrats would…


Supreme Court Receptive to Pitch to Allow Court Challenges to Administrative State Powers

A security technology company and an accountant claiming unfair treatment at the hands of federal agencies’ in-house administrative tribunals urged a seemingly receptive Supreme Court on Nov. 7 to make it easier to challenge their structure. The Supreme Court could use the opportunity to rein in the so-called administrative state and reaffirm the separation of…


Court Orders True the Vote Leaders Released From Jail

Two leaders of True the Vote organization will be released from jail after an appeals court overruled a judge’s order that they be locked up. Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were ordered released by a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit late Nov. 6. “IT IS ORDERED that Petitioners’ opposed…


Court Orders Release of True the Vote Leaders From Jail

Two leaders of True the Vote organization will be released from jail after an appeals court overruled a judge’s order that they be locked up. Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were ordered released by a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit late Nov. 6. “IT IS ORDERED that Petitioners’ opposed…


Texas and Nevada Cities Are More Suitable Than California for Corporate Headquarters: Study

Migration out of California has continued in 2022 as people and businesses choose to leave the state. A new study released by The Boyd Company on Oct. 26 named certain cities in Texas and Nevada as the most ideal locations for corporate headquarters relocations. “Major corporations moving head office and major regional office operations out…


1 Dead, Dozens Hurt as Tornadoes Hit Texas and Oklahoma

POWDERLY, Texas—Tornadoes tore through parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Friday, killing at least one person, injuring dozens of others, and leaving dozens of homes and buildings in ruins. Tornadoes hit hard in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, in the southeastern corner of the state. Cody McDaniel, the county’s emergency manager, confirmed one death although he didn’t…


GOP Politicians Out the Texas Tribune After the News Organization Targets Conservative Churches

As next week’s midterm elections quickly approach, a war is brewing in Texas between a nonprofit news organization and at least one pastor.  The Texas Tribune and ProPublica are inviting readers to report conservative church leaders who endorse specific candidates for election, but that isn’t stopping Robert Jeffress from encouraging his parishioners to vote according…


An American West Story: How A Cattle Drive During the 1860s Exemplified Bravery and Loyalty

Charles Goodnight lived for eighty-three years, from 1836 until 1929, and in that time was a settler, a scout, a Texas Ranger, a cattleman, an entrepreneur, a town father, and even an early booster of the fledgling film industry in Hollywood, California. However, it would be the blazing of the Goodnight-Loving Trail in 1866 and…


Autopsy: Takeoff Died From Gunshot Wounds to Head, Torso

HOUSTON—Rapper Takeoff died from gunshot wounds to the head and torso following a shooting outside a private party at a downtown Houston bowling alley, authorities announced Wednesday. The announcement—following an autopsy by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in Houston—comes as police are still seeking the public’s help in tracking down the person or…