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The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is suing ExxonMobil for employment discrimination.
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COVID-19 meant Scouts couldn't gather in groups, go camping, or help each other with projects. It also changed recruiting. But it didn't deter the first batch of girls who will receive their Eagle Scout rank in February.
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It will be months before the general public can get vaccinated against COVID-19. But those who’ve recovered from it are believed to have antibodies offering protection from the virus.
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Bigger hospitals in Texas have received shipments of the Pfizer vaccine. Those facilities have the bulk of COVID-19 patients, as many rural hospitals don’t have intensive care units, and generally transfer their critical patients to the larger care centers. But the smaller, “critical access” hospitals are dealing with COVID-19 patients, too.
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The new stimulus bill passed by Congress late Monday will avert a potentially catastrophic and historic wave of evictions, at least temporarily. Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion relief deal that would, among its provisions, send another $25 billion in rental assistance and extend a nationwide eviction moratorium.
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Texas' vaccine rollout has just started and cities across the state are seeing record numbers of new cases.
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Medical professionals conducting millions of COVID-19 tests in the U.S. face an overwhelming workload even as the first round of vaccinations are administered.
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The first round of vaccinations comes as Texas is seeing a massive surge in cases. There are currently more than 1.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state.
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Some local officials would like more power to respond to the virus as they see fit, but an appeals court already squashed one county's attempt to impose new restrictions.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services said 19,500 doses of the vaccine were headed Monday to four sites in Texas: MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Wellness 360 at UT Health San Antonio and UT Health Austin’s Dell Medical School.