A couple of guys with goatees plus one woman stole a shark from a Texas aquarium on Monday by passing it off as a baby. “Oh, this 3-foot long thing with fins that’s dripping wet and trying to eat the stroller? This is our child. Her name is Terri, she’s teething,” they probably said.
The state of Texas is doubling down on its efforts, previously suspended by courts, to require the burial or cremation of fetal remains resulting from abortions or miscarriages—regardless of one’s wishes.
On Sunday, hundreds of people attended a protest against family detentions in Tornillo, Texas, where a “tent city” has been set up to accommodate unaccompanied immigrant minors, as a realistic or official path towards family reunification remains unclear. Among those protesting were a handful of actors and musicians. …
On Monday, the Supreme Court largely sided with Texas and North Carolina in cases challenging the fairness of their legislative maps. Per CNN, this means that officials will probably use those congressional district maps in the upcoming midterm elections, which is good news for racists and Donald Trump, and bad news…
I usually find it lazy to begin writing with a disclaimer, but I’m already breaking my rules by writing about my face, so here goes nothing: My name is Maria Sherman, and I’m product-phobic.
In February, Texas and 19 attorney generals of other Republican-led states filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionally of the Affordable Care Act. On Thursday night, the DOJ sided with them, saying that it won’t defend the Obama-era healthcare law “with the approval of the President of the United…
It’s been less than a week since 10 students were killed and another 13 were injured by a 17-year-old gunman in a mass shooting at Santa Fe High School, near Houston, Texas, and state officials are scrambling to avoid saying literally anything meaningful about gun control.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott—who is up for re-election in November—has done so much to bring us closer to sensible gun control since the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School near Houston last Friday, in which a 17-year-old armed with a pistol and a shotgun killed 10 people. Abbott asked Texans to join him for a moment…
Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are tweeting in solidarity with students from Santa Fe High School, who were rocked by a school shooting Friday morning.
At least eight people have died and “several” more have been injured in a mass shooting early Friday morning at high school in Santa Fe, Texas. KTRK News reports the suspect, a student, is currently in police custody. Another person has been detained.
There’s already too many podcasts in this cold, cruel world, but here’s one I bet you didn’t know about: The Green Line, which is by and and for border patrol agents. The podcast, which is put out by the Border Patrol union, has about 200 episodes, and is recorded in studios owned by Breitbart, your friendly…
The Texas Observer has published a gruesome story about fetal burials, a practice mandated by many Catholic hospitals and, if Republican lawmakers have their way, state governments: A woman named Blake Norton, after miscarrying in 2015, was treated at Seton Medical Center Austin at the recommendation of her OB-GYN,…
According to a new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the number of women who died in Texas from pregnancy-related complications is less than half of what was originally estimated in a much-covered 2016 study.
Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke is running to unseat Ted Cruz in the Senate, and he’s cleaning the fuck up. In the last three months alone, O’Rourke has brought in $6.7 million, from 141,000 individual contributions, according to the campaign.
Crystal Mason is a former tax-preparer, who was convicted of fraud in 2012 after pleading guilty to inflating returns on client documents. She was released from federal prison before the 2016 election, and mistakenly believed she could legally vote in Texas. On Thursday, she was convicted of voter fraud and sentenced…
The parents of a 16-year-old girl in Texas were arrested on Friday after police alleged they physically abused her and threw hot cooking oil on her because she didn’t want to take part in an arranged marriage. The teen went missing in January, according to reports, and she has since been placed in child protective…
On Wednesday, Judge Lee Yeakel of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the state’s law severely restricting a type of second-trimester abortion procedure is unconstitutional, the New York Times reports.
“Mental health is your problem here,” Donald Trump said in a press conference early Monday morning. Trump was addressing the cause, or what he believes to be the cause, of the mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The latest in a seemingly unbroken timeline of mass shootings which…
Globally, maternal mortality rates have been declining over the past several years. In America, however, the maternal death rate more than doubled between 1987 and 2013. In fact, though the United States is one of the most developed countries in the world, it’s the second to last among 31 developed countries, ahead of…
