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Twenty years later, a Texas babysitter’s murder conviction in connection with a toddler’s strangling death was overturned

Twenty years after being charged with murder in the toddler’s strangling death, a Texas babysitter had the allegations against her dropped. According to Travis County District Attorney José Garza, Rosa Jimenez received a 99-year jail term after being found guilty in 2005 in the 2003 murder of a 21-month-old baby who suffocated on a bundle…

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According to the mayor of San Antonio, Texas’ legislature isn’t doing much to ease the terrible heat

Texas is experiencing a heatwave that is breaking records, with some places seeing temperatures as high as 120 degrees. The state legislature, according to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, has served to make matters worse. “We’re pleased that the president is tackling the current heat with the intensity that is, in my opinion, required. Nirenberg…

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A Texas trooper claims that state officials at the southern border are treating migrants inhumanely

In a private message earlier this month, a state trooper expressed concerns over procedures he considered cruel, saying that attempts by Texas authorities to prevent illegal crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border have put migrants, especially children, in danger of drowning or being wounded by a sharp wire. The trooper further asserted that Texas officials had been…

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