Category: Texas

COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Impact US Military Readiness: Special Forces Flight Surgeon

COVID-19 vaccine policies impair the readiness of the U.S. military due to a drastic increase in disorders and side effects attributed to vaccine adverse reactions and insufficient recruitment, said a former COVID-19 task force doctor. In an interview for EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program, Dr. Peter Chambers, a Green Beret flight surgeon who served in Operation Lone Star in…


Alex Jones’s Company to Face Second Defamation Trial in Connecticut

The parent company of InfoWars on Monday agreed to face a second defamation trial linked to the false claims of the program’s host, Alex Jones, that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Attorneys for Free Speech Systems (FSS) told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas that the company wouldn’t…


Texas Conservatives Mobilize Against New Social Curriculum Adding Gender, LGBT and CRT Ideology

Texas conservatives are revolting over proposed State Board of Education changes that will eliminate teaching the U.S. Constitution and founding principles in some grade levels while including ideologies on white supremacy, LBGT pride, and gender. Parent groups and conservative groups have mobilized to attend a public hearing at the Texas State Board of Education in…


Drive-By Shooting at Texas Home Kills 5-Year-Old Child, Teen

FORT WORTH, Texas—A 5-year-old child and a teenager were killed and a toddler was injured in a drive-by shooting in a residential area of Fort Worth and authorities searched Monday for suspects, police said. The shooting happened shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday when a vehicle pulled up outside the home where a group was gathered…


Beto O’Rourke Diagnosed With Bacterial Infection While Campaigning for Midterms

Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke said on Sunday that he’s been diagnosed with a bacterial infection in the midst of his campaign ahead of the midterm elections on Nov. 8. O’Rourke, 49, confirmed the news in a statement on Twitter and said he planned to take a break from the campaign trail to recover. “After feeling…


Police: Houston Tenant Kills 3 Others, Set Fire to Lure Them

HOUSTON—A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants—killing three of them—Sunday morning after setting fire to the house to lure them out, police said. Officers fatally shot the gunman. The incident happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a mixed industrial-residential neighborhood in southwest Houston. Police and fire crews responded to…


Texas Governor ‘Accelerates’ Busing of Illegal Immigrants to New York City

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signaled he will accelerate the busing of illegal immigrants from the border to New York City, a sanctuary city, according to his office. “Texas is filling the gaps left in [President Joe] Biden’s absence at our border,” the Republican governor wrote on social media. “We’ve made over 19,000 arrests, seized over 335.5…


3 More States Enact Abortion Trigger Laws While North Dakota Judge Put State’s Trigger Law on Hold

Three Republican-led states this week enacted abortion bans triggered after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, while a judge on Aug. 25 blocked an abortion ban in North Dakota a day it was set to take effect. Idaho, Tennessee, and Texas have joined eight other states that have abortion laws that kicked…


Federal Court Strikes Down Texas Ban on Young Adults Carrying Guns in Public

A federal judge has struck down a Texas law preventing individuals aged 18 to 20 years from carrying handguns in public, in the first major court ruling on Second Amendment rights since the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to carry firearms in public for self-defense. Previously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th…


Texas Judge’s Ruling Upholds Second Amendment Rights for 18-to-21-Year-Olds

A federal court in Texas on Thursday struck down a ban on 18-to-21-year-olds carrying a handgun outside the home, ruling it violated the constitutional right to keep and bear arms for self-defense. The lawsuit was brought by two adult plaintiffs within that age group and the Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc. The ban prevented the plaintiffs…