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Blackout Poetry Workshop for Teens @ Cinco Ranch Branch Library - APR 8

In celebration of National Poetry Month in April, Fort Bend County Libraries’ Cinco Ranch Branch Library will have a Blackout-Poetry Workshop for Teens on Monday, April 8, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm, in the Conference Classroom of the library, located at 2620 Commercial Center Blvd in Katy.

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Washington Prepares for Donald Trump's Big Moment

Donald Trump has arrived in Washington -- and he's going to be here for at least four years.

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Conyers: Frustration of '67 Can Be Found Today Across Nation

The 50th anniversary of the Detroit rebellion — highlighted by the release of the movie "Detroit" — allows us the chance to reflect on the state of civil rights in President Donald Trump’s America.

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House Russia Investigators Plot Next Steps

House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said late Monday that investigators had agreed on the list of witnesses they plan to interview. GOP Rep. Peter King suggested Tuesday that the committee has agreed to bring in key figures who worked with the Trump campaign and were in communication with Russian officials.

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How Trump And Ryan Are Working With GOP Moderates On Health Care

Mast got to discuss his concerns about how the bill would impact the large senior population in his district directly with President Donald Trump and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on the flight down to West Palm Beach.

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'Totally Under Control' dissects failures in the US coronavirus response

"Totally Under Control" is, in some ways, a greatest-hits collection of Trump administration failures and missteps pertaining to Covid-19, but with an extraordinarily timely kicker in the president's own diagnosis. Director Alex Gibney and his collaborators also earn degree-of-difficulty points for having assembled this documentary during the pandemic, designing a remotely operated "Covid-cam" to safely record interviews.

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Adding Fuel to the Fire of Our Pandemics

Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis. The great Rome fire took place in the first century AD. The fiddle wasn’t invented until the eleventh century, so it is unlikely that the hedonistic emperor played the fiddle while his city was burning. More likely, he was engaged in some trivial or sybaritic act, regardless of the crisis.

Stimulus negotiations: Pelosi rejects possibility of short-term extension of federal jobless benefits

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the possibility of a short-term extension of federal jobless benefits during her news conference on Thursday, taking a hard line in demanding that Congress approve a large-scale stimulus package that the White House has so far rejected.

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Trump remakes America in his own image: Angry, hateful, afraid

Donald Trump seems determined to make America ugly again. He has insulted scores of nations, undercut our allies and projected the worst of American xenophobia, racism, small-mindedness and vulgarity overseas.

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Staffing shakeup to overshadow five Cabinet members pitching infrastructure plan to the Hill

Five Cabinet secretaries are heading to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a hearing on infrastructure, but it's likely other issues will come up amid the news that President Donald Trump is shaking up his administration.

The Long No

An acquaintance in the entertainment industry once explained to me why a project we were working on was stalled. He said we were getting “The Long No.”

NYT: White House reviews plan that would send up to 120,000 US troops to Middle East

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented a military plan at a meeting of top national security officials last week that would send as many as 120,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran strikes American forces in the region or speeds up its development of nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported Monday.

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65 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

This week marks the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed apartheid in America, declaring segregated schools "inherently unequal" and unconstitutional.

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Texas congresswoman to Trump: 'I refuse to be an accessory' to El Paso visit

Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas on Tuesday said she declined an invitation to join President Donald Trump on his upcoming visit to El Paso, Texas, as the city recovers from a mass shooting.

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This Valentine’s Day, what’s even better than a box of chocolate?

Mixologists say they know the best way to indulge in chocolate

Traditional boxes of chocolate are so ordinary. There’s a better, “outside-the-box” way to show your thoughtfulness. Crafted in Salzburg, Austria for more than 150 years, all-natural Mozart Chocolate Creams and Liqueurs are masterpieces made with only high-end ingredients such as rich Belgian chocolate, fresh cream and real Bourbon vanilla from Madagascar.

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Wedding Oak Winery Wins 3 Class Champion Awards at the 2018 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition

Wedding Oak Winery was recognized with three Class Champion, and two Double Gold medals, among nine wines that won medals at the 15th annual Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition, held Nov. 11 – 12, 2017, at NRG Center in Houston, Texas. Wedding Oak Winery received Class Champion, Class Champion and Double Gold medals for its 2016 Marsanne and 2015 Tioja and a Class Champion, Texas Class Champion, and Silver medal for its 2016 Wedding Oak Winery Bridal Veil white blend. All Wedding Oak wines submitted to the competition are made using 100 percent Texas grown grapes.

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Alvarez’s Walk Off Against The White Sox Continues Dramatic Flare At Minute Maid Park

"The plan was just to not get too desperate at the plate," said Alvarez who had his first walk-off hit of his major league career. "Wasn't trying to hit a home run. I just wanted to make good, solid contact with the ball and that's what happened."

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Kushner resurfaces with op-ed on the Middle East

Top Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner resurfaced on Sunday by penning a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the Middle East, his first public remarks since the end of the Trump administration and offering a potential indication into how he will seek to cement his own legacy and accomplishments.

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A Question of Justice

In 1838, in a shameful chapter of American history, U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott forced tens of thousands of Cherokee Indians - one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" that had embraced the customs and language of white settlers - to march 1,200 miles to what was designated "Indian Territory" across the Mississippi (centered in what is now Oklahoma). Their lands were confiscated; their homes looted. Along what became known as the Trail of Tears, whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, and starvation took a deadly toll, with an estimated one-quarter of the Cherokee people perishing along the way.

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Stages Theater 2022 Holiday Season

Join Stages as they welcome DeQuina Moore, one of Houston’s most talented souls, home for the holidays in this Christmas cabaret. In addition to a flurry of holiday hits, DeQuina will share personal stories, from growing up in Houston to backstage on Broadway.