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175 Texas fires have torched about 95,000 acres in the past week. But one major fire is now under control
While firefighters grapple with wildfires across Texas, a bit of good news emerged Monday: the Big L Fire is now "under control," Hood County officials said.
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CDC: Avoid travel to this 'very high' risk Indian Ocean island
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added just one new destination to its highest-risk category for travel on Monday -- and it's again an Indian Ocean island nation.
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City donates 33 bison to rebuild Native American herds
The City and County of Denver is giving bison from its mountain park herd to three indigenous tribes. Those bison will head to tribal lands across the West.
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Dove and the Crown Coalition Applaud the U.S. House of Representatives for Passing the Crown Act
Landmark Federal Bill H.R. 2116 Led by Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) Passes on Friday, March 18, 2022 AND the Massachusetts State House Passes the CROWN Act Unanimously on Thursday, March 17, 2022, to Protect Against Hair Discrimination In Workplaces and Schools
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Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park is Back This Friday, Saturday and Sunday!
Iconic art festival celebrates 50 years at Memorial Park March 25-27, 2022
The Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA), the producer of the Bayou City Art Festival, will transform Memorial Park into a vivid outdoor gallery and an interactive art event along S. Picnic Loop from Friday through Sunday, March 25-27, 2022, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation Bring Back $1 Million Grant Program to Support Historic Small Restaurants
Now in its second year, the Backing Historic Small Restaurants Grant Program will again award 25 historic U.S. small restaurants with $40,000 grants.
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Fort Bend County Judge KP George Hosts Women’s History Month Celebration and Panel Discussion
Fort Bend County Judge KP George will host an inaugural Women’s History Month Celebration and Panel Discussion on Monday, March 21. The event will be held at the Fort Bend Museum, 410 S 5th St, Richmond, TX 77469 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
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Texas firefighters have battled 175 fires in the past week that have burned nearly 95,000 acres, officials say
Firefighters in Texas are working to protect people and homes as 175 wildfires have burned nearly 95,000 acres across the state in the past week, the state's forest service said Sunday.
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All-Black women's World War II unit to be awarded Congressional Gold Medal
An all-Black Women's Army Corps unit that sorted millions of pieces of mail in unheated warehouses during World War II will finally be awarded a Congressional Gold Medal decades after the fact.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson: The personal and legal record of the Supreme Court nominee
Six days after President Joe Biden's inauguration, White House counsel Dana Remus put in a call to Ketanji Brown Jackson to see if the judge might be interested in a new job: replacing Merrick Garland on a powerful federal appeals court.
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Pritzker Prize 2022: Francis Kéré becomes first African to win 'Nobel of architecture'
When he was 7 years old, Francis Kéré left his family home to attend school because his village, Gando in Burkina Faso, did not have one of its own. Thirteen years later he moved to Germany on a carpentry scholarship with a dream of returning home one day to build the classrooms that didn't then exist.
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Ernest Shackleton's Endurance ship found in Antarctica after 107 years
More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.
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Congress just got its secret weapon back
Buried within the 2,700-page omnibus spending bill unveiled early Wednesday that would fund the federal government through September is something called "member-directed spending." It might well be the single most important thing in the bill if you care about Congress actually passing legislation.
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Russia accused of 'atrocity' in alleged bombing of maternity and children's hospital
Russian forces bombed a maternity and children's hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky as an "atrocity."
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National Célébrez en Rosé Wine & Music Festival Makes Debut in Houston
Organizers of Célébrez en Rosé (formally La Fête du Rosé) wine and music festival, have announced the pink and white-themed event will make its long-awaited debut in Houston on Saturday, May 28 at The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park.
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At a secret airfield in Eastern Europe, a multinational effort to send weapons to Ukraine proceeds at high speed
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley went last week to an undisclosed airfield near the Ukrainian border that has become a hub for shipping weapons, a senior Defense Department official said, seeing firsthand the multinational effort to get weapons into Ukraine amid Russia's unprovoked invasion.
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Nationally-renowned researcher, innovator joins TSU’s leadership team
Dr. Michelle Penn-Marshall has been selected as Texas Southern University’s first-ever Vice President of Research and Innovation.
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Black immigrants chose Ukraine for quality of life, education. War leaves them fearful.
After having studied in India, Heidi Nguema visited Ukraine a few years ago with no plans to make it his home. But as an African from the country of Gabon, in the central part of the continent, he said, he “fell in love” with Ukraine and “decided to stay.”
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What's Needed Now Is a Push for Peace
“When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” an old African proverb teaches. Sadly, we now witness its truth in the horrors visited upon Ukraine by Russia’s invasion. The elephants – Russia and the U.S. with its NATO allies – fought over Ukraine, and now Ukrainians are paying a horrible price. As in any modern war, civilians suffer the worst casualties. Nearly 400,000 Ukrainians have already been forced from their country, refugees fleeing the violence. While sanctions may hit the Russian elites in their pocketbooks, it is young, often befuddled Russian soldiers whose lives are at risk in the face of the inspired and fierce Ukrainian resistance.
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Applications Open for Inaugural Summer Legal Academy
The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee Opens Applications for Inaugural Summer Legal Academy
The Office of Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee (HCAO) announces the launch of its first annual Summer Legal Academy (SLA), a legal training and educational program designed to expose high school students to the path to becoming an attorney.
