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Texas Tribune

Texas Border Patrol Agent Accused of “Serial Killing Spree” in Laredo

Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, has been accused of killing four women, including one transgender woman, and kidnapping a fifth woman, who escaped and alerted law enforcement.

September 17th, 2018

By Texas Tribune

Texas Border Patrol Agent Accused of “Serial Killing Spree” in Laredo

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been accused of going on a nearly two-week-long “serial killing spree” that came to an end on Saturday after he was arrested him in connection with the deaths of four women and the kidnapping of a fifth woman.

Webb County-Zapata County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz told The Texas Tribune that Juan

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People walk past a mural painted on a border structure in Tijuana, Mexico, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. The mural, entitled “SOS, Deported Veterans,” was painted in 2013 by artist Amos Gregory to help raise awareness of the plight of deported veterans. (AP/Julie Watson)

A Border Patrol Agent Violated the Fourth Amendment When He Shot Across the US-Mexico Border, Striking Boy 10 Times

As America Separates Families at the Border, a Look Back at the Cruel Practice

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UN Calls on US to “Immediately Halt” Policy of Detaining Migrant Children

Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

The findings highlight how six decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and water plant and distribution pipe deterioration have taken a toll on local water systems.

August 16th, 2017

By Texas Tribune

Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

WOLFFORTH, Texas – As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the

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Military | Pollution

Pentagon Climate Change Report Ignores Its Own Role in Fueling the Crisis

Gaza Water

With Water Scarce & UN Food Aid Cut, Israeli Bev Co SodaStream Opens New Gaza Plant

PFAS EPA

EPA Continues to Approve Hundreds of Dangerous PFAS Chemicals

Trump’s Sons Behind Nonprofit Selling Access To President-Elect

A new Texas nonprofit led by President-elect Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to Trump in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.

December 20th, 2016

By Texas Tribune and
Carrie Levine | Center for Public Integrity

Trump’s Sons Behind Nonprofit Selling Access To President-Elect

A new Texas nonprofit led by Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to the freshly-minted president during inauguration weekend — all in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to

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Donald Trump | Press

How Donald Trump Finally Won Over “Liberal” Media

Donald Trump | Iraq

Trump To Move US Troops from Syria to Iraq to “Watch” Iran, “Protect Israel”

Donald Trump | Iran

Trump Explodes at CIA over Iran: “Naive and Passive,” “Go Back to School!”

Texas Senator Wants Schools To Teach Kids To ‘Comply, Then Complain’

“You could be an escaped felon. You could be a bank robber. You could have a dead body in the trunk of that car for all that officer knows.”

October 04th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Texas Senator Wants Schools To Teach Kids To ‘Comply, Then Complain’

"Comply, then complain" and similar phrases could become all too familiar to Texas' newest drivers, as lawmakers work this week to push two solutions to the rift between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. State legislators are exploring having Texas schools teach students how to act when stopped by law enforcement, and the

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Amazon Facial Rekognition App Sets Off Alarm Bells

Yellow Vest Police Collage

Macron Tactics Against Yellow Vests Have Nothing to Do with Public Safety, Everything to Do with Global Politics

Yellow Vest | Wide

Civilians in Police Crosshairs as France Adopts Totalitarian Tactics to Squash Yellow Vests

Watch: Ted Cruz Claims Black Community “Perceives” Unfair Treatment By Police

In a time were police shootings of unarmed black men are being televised almost weekly, the former GOP presidential candidate contended that the unfair treatment of blacks by police was simply an issue of perception.

September 28th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Watch: Ted Cruz Claims Black Community “Perceives” Unfair Treatment By Police

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said members of the black community "perceive that law enforcement does not treat them fairly," and that's led officers to fear doing their jobs. Cruz was interviewed at the Texas Tribune Festival by Tribune CEO Evan Smith. This work by 

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Amazon | Rekognition

Amazon Facial Rekognition App Sets Off Alarm Bells

Yellow Vest Police Collage

Macron Tactics Against Yellow Vests Have Nothing to Do with Public Safety, Everything to Do with Global Politics

Yellow Vest | Wide

Civilians in Police Crosshairs as France Adopts Totalitarian Tactics to Squash Yellow Vests

Former Right-Wing Politician Turned Publisher Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook

While serving on the education board in the late 2000s, the same publisher penned a book, One Nation Under God, that argued against the separation of church and state.

September 13th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Former Right-Wing Politician Turned Publisher Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook

The publisher of a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that scholars, elected officials and Hispanic activists have decried as racist and inaccurate is defending the high school text ahead of a public hearing on the book Tuesday before the Texas State Board of Education. "There's never been a book in the history of SBOE that's been

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Bahia Amawi | Israel Boycott

Texas Educator Files Lawsuit after She was Fired for Refusing to Sign an Oath to Israel

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Seven Hospitalized After Fracking Pipelines Explode

With photographs of hurricane damage on Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands below them, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, left, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., attend a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on hurricane recovery, Nov. 14, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

FEMA’s Work Following Harvey vs. Maria: Disaster Relief Difficult but Effort Counts

Growing Zika Threat Prompts New Calls For Medicaid Expansion In Texas

As Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s health leaders make public service announcements saying Texas is on heightened alert for mosquito-to-human transmission of the virus, which has been linked to birth defects, many advocates for the uninsured have a different goal in mind.

August 19th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Growing Zika Threat Prompts New Calls For Medicaid Expansion In Texas

When Texas officials announced earlier this month they would allow Medicaid to pay for mosquito repellent for low-income pregnant women — a move meant to stop the spread of the Zika virus — health care advocates greeted the news with tempered enthusiasm. They saw it as a tacit endorsement by Republican state leaders of the usefulness of

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Bahia Amawi | Israel Boycott

Texas Educator Files Lawsuit after She was Fired for Refusing to Sign an Oath to Israel

Ocasio-Cortez

Democrat Gains Threaten Trump Agenda, Even Without ‘Blue Wave’

Republican Democrats

Gallup Poll Finds Only Republicans Don’t Want a Third Party

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