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Mayor Turner Names New City Secretary – Marks First Time An African-American Will Serve

Patricia Daniel Is Honored To Fill Anna Russell’s Position

Mayor Sylvester Turner has select- ed an experienced and dedicated City of Houston employee to succeed beloved City Secretary Anna Russell, who died in 2020 after serving in the role for nearly seven decades.

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Houston Style Magazine Honoring the Influence of Women Educators

Education has always been of the utmost importance for generations of African Americans. It is something that once obtained can never be taken from. It is the passport to a successful life. Many Americans can thank a woman for having such an influence. There once was a time when it was against the law for African Americans to read and write. Yet, instill, brave souls risked life itself to learn and to teach others like them. For many people, their first teacher was probably their mother.

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Women's Month Highlight: McDonald's To Millions, Mya Smith-Edmonds

Get to know Houston's very own, Mya Smith-Edmonds, first-female African American Next Generation McDonald's Owner/Operator.

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Mammograms pick up swelling due to Covid-19 vaccine, causing unnecessary fear, radiologists say

When she found a lump in her left breast during a routine self-check, Boston primary care physician Dr. Devon Quasha knew exactly what to do. She immediately scheduled a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital for early January.

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How to help your kids get enough sleep, especially during the Covid pandemic

Getting enough sleep was tough even before the pandemic. With disrupted routines, extra screen time and the incredible amount of stress most people face now, sleep routines seem to have gone quickly but quietly downhill. And from what I'm seeing in my child psychiatry practice — kids are suffering especially hard.

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'Boiling up': Former NBA star Jeremy Lin says Covid-19 has sparked anti-Asian violence in the US

Former NBA star Jeremy Lin says he's seen a rise in racism across the US since the coronavirus pandemic started and says the country must address the issue of anti-Asian violence.

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Two doses of Pfizer and Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine are necessary, officials say, but questions still linger

The United States is holding firm to the strategy to administer two doses of the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines a few weeks apart. Still, the idea of expanding the supply by dispensing only one dose hasn't faded away.

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Fauci calls loosening Covid-19 restrictions inexplicable as variants threaten another surge

While tens of thousands of Americans are infected with the coronavirus each day and more research suggests variants threaten another surge, some state leaders are loosening Covid-19 restrictions against the recommendations of health experts.

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Dr. Oz helped save a man who collapsed at a New York City-area airport

Dr. Mehmet Oz sprang into action and helped save a man who had collapsed at an airport Monday night.

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Alec Baldwin left Twitter because we don't get irony

Alec Baldwin has once again deactivated his Twitter account. This time it's over a joke many believe he made about fellow actor Gillian Anderson switching accents.

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An exhausted Texas ICU nurse says she's scared about an end to the state's mask mandate

Brittany Smart has spent months tending to the Covid-19 patients who poured into Texas hospitals as the virus raged across the state -- and the country.

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First doses of authorized Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine administered in Ohio

The long-awaited, one-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine has now been administered in the United States for the first time outside of a clinical trial.

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Libraries oppose censorship. So they're getting creative when it comes to offensive kids' books

It's a wondrous thing to introduce a child to a beloved book, to read with them as they enter a literary world generations before them have enjoyed.

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Women leaders you should know and the causes they champion

With the global pandemic, 2020 proved to be a tough year for everyone -- especially girls and women.

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Friends find out they're biological sisters years after they met working at the same restaurant

It started as a joke. Cassandra Madison, 32, and Julia Tinetti, 31, began telling people they were sisters not long after they met in 2013 while working at The Russian Lady restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, but a recent DNA test confirmed that they are actually biological sisters.

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Pipe bomb found at Iowa polling location for local election

A live pipe bomb was found at an Iowa community center serving as a polling place for a special election, Ankeny police confirmed in a statement.

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New York City developer won't have to remove floors from residential building in Manhattan, court rules

A New York appeals court reversed a ruling that ordered a Manhattan high-rise construction project to dismantle multiple floors.

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At a vaccination site in Miami, some wonder whether to choose newly approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine or Pfizer one

Those who showed up to a Miami vaccination site on Wednesday found themselves in the rare position where they got to choose which Covid-19 vaccine they would like to get: the newly FDA-approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine, or the Pfizer vaccine.

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Tennessee task force recovers 150 missing children

A total of 150 missing children ranging in age from 3 to 17 were recovered in January and February during a joint law enforcement operation, authorities in Tennessee said Wednesday.

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13 people were killed in horrific crash after entering US through hole in Mexico border fence, officials say

The 13 people killed when an SUV was struck by a semitruck in California's Imperial Valley are believed to be among dozens of undocumented migrants who entered the United States through a hole in the border fence with Mexico, the US Border Patrol said Wednesday.