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Nick Gordon Says He Still Mourns Bobbi Kristina

Nick Gordon is looking back on his relationship with late girlfriend Bobbi Kristina Brown.

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Midtown Houston Announces Super Bowl Weekend Line-Up Featuring NFL Stars, Free Block Party and Reveal of New Green Space

Families and fans across Houston will have the opportunity to celebrate their passion for football during Midtown Houston’s free Super Bowl Weekend LI Showdown at the new Midtown Park (Main and McGowen) and a three-day SUPER Weekend concert series at Bagby Park (415 Gray St.). Together, the two Midtown Super Bowl celebrations will offer the best in Houston's visual and performing arts, outdoor recreation spaces and culinary scene.

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Four Tips to Help Communities and Churches Battle Human Trafficking: Baylor Expert

Super Bowl shines spotlight on global epidemic

Super Bowl festivities in Houston will be in full swing this week as the nation gears up for the NFL’s premier event on Sunday. Thousands of people will pour into the city. Unfortunately, those crowds will include those involved in human trafficking.

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Boy Scouts Open Membership To Transgender Boys

The Boy Scouts of America says it will begin accepting members based on their gender identity, opening the door for transgender boys to join.

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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Statement on President’s Firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates

Jackson Lee: “As a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, I have worked closely with Deputy and Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, whom I know to be a person of honor, intellect, and integrity. Instead of firing Ms. Yates for her fidelity to the Constitution, the President should have consulted her, in her capacity as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, before issuing his unconstitutional and discriminatory executive order banning Muslims from predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States.”

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Black and Latino Amazon Drivers File Discrimination Class Action

Complaints Allege Amazon Illegally Fired Drivers Based On Overly Stringent Background Checks

A group of eight Black and Latino former Amazon drivers filed class action complaints this morning with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), charging that Amazon illegally discriminated against them and other similarly-situated drivers when it fired them last year. The complaints allege that Amazon’s mass termination of predominantly minority drivers was based on an overly stringent background check policy that included old and minor offenses, and came months after the drivers were on the job and performing successfully.

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Super Bowl LI Kicks Off With A Lively Opening Night

Super Bowl Opening Night had a bit of everything on Monday, ranging from funny to serious. It also included a touching moment by Tom Brady and almost a major disaster involving the Atlanta Falcons' game plan.

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The Texan's Texas: Easygoing Charm in Brenham

When outsiders think of rural Texas, their thoughts tend to run toward cactus, tumbleweeds, oil derricks, coyotes and armadillos, cowboys and pickup trucks.

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Super Bowl LI Kicks Off With a Lively Opening Night

Super Bowl Opening Night had a bit of everything on Monday, ranging from funny to serious. It also included a touching moment by Tom Brady and almost a major disaster involving the Atlanta Falcons' game plan.

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Amazon, Expedia Back Lawsuit Opposing Trump Travel Ban

Amazon and Expedia have joined a legal challenge to President Trump's travel ban.

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Madeleine Albright: Trump's Ban 'just flat anti-American'

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, preventing travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries and halting Syrian refugees from entering the US indefinitely, goes against America's fundamental values.

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Donald Trump's Early Crisis

President Donald Trump begins his 11th day in office shrouded in crisis, roundly criticized for a chaotic unveiling of immigration measures and under new scrutiny after he fired the nation's top law enforcement officer who refused to enforce them.

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Trump to Continue Obama Order Protecting LGBTQ Federal Workers

An executive order protecting federal employees from anti-LGBTQ discrimination that was signed by President Barack Obama in 2014 will continue to be in effect in President Donald Trump's administration, the White House announced Tuesday.

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Sean Spicer Slams 'nitpicking' of Holocaust Statement

White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended Monday the Trump administration's omission of any reference to Jews in its Holocaust remembrance statement, saying "nitpicking" of the Friday statement is "just ridiculous."

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The Real Estate Mogul's Architect: Bannon's Influence Swells

To outsiders looking in, President Donald Trump's decision to give his chief strategist Steve Bannon a permanent seat with the National Security Council's most senior officials marked the startling elevation of a political adviser to a policy-making role.

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Jeff Sessions Grilled Sally Yates On Constitutional Duty During 2015 Hearing

Sally Yates had been in the crossfire over her constitutional duty before her ouster Monday night as acting attorney general.

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Quebec Mosque Suspect Charged With Murder

The suspect in the shooting at a Quebec City mosque on Sunday that left six people dead has been charged with murder and attempted murder, according to Canadian authorities. Alexandre Bissonnette faces six counts of first-degree murder and five attempted murder charges, according to the verified Twitter account of the Quebec Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

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Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

Esteban Santiago, the man accused of killing five people inside a Fort Lauderdale airport, pleaded not guilty to all charges Monday in federal court.

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Today's Google Doodle Features An Unsung Hero

We could do a daily feature on the creative doodles Google posts, but today's is especially poignant given the political climate.

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Boy Scouts Open Membership to Transgender Boys

The Boy Scouts of America says it will begin accepting members based on their gender identity, opening the door for transgender boys to join.