The pioneering journalist Monica Roberts, whose influential blog TransGriot reports on the murders of trans women alongside other news of importance to the trans community, has died, according to multiple sources on social media and news outlets. The award winning Roberts was an inspiration to many LGBTQ activists, campaigners and journalists, who took to Twitter and Facebook to express their grief and shock Thursday night. In […]
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As COVID-19 deaths in the United States approached 200,000, the toll among health-care workers came to include a 28-year-old doctor who had gone about with a toy stethoscope as a youngster in upstate New York. Dr. Adeline Fagan had grown up to become an OB-GYN resident at HCA Healthcare in Houston. A photo shows her in scrubs, holding a swaddled newborn. She has the incandescent smile […]
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is ratcheting up enforcement of a state Covid-19 mask mandate, ordering police to cite residents who refuse to wear a face covering after being warned and penalize them with a $250 fine. “For months, we have been focusing on education and not citations, but now I am instructing the Houston Police Department to issue the necessary warnings and citations to anyone not […]
A Houston doctor who praises hydroxychloroquine and says that face masks aren’t necessary to stop transmission of the highly contagious coronavirus has become a star on the right-wing internet, garnering tens of millions of views on Facebook on Monday alone. Donald Trump Jr. declared the video of Stella Immanuel a “must watch,” while Donald Trump himself retweeted the video. Before Trump and his supporters embrace Immanuel’s […]
On Tuesday, US authorities gave China 72 hours to shut down its Houston, Texas Consulate, accusing its staff of systematically engaging in espionage. Beijing responded by ordering US diplomats to leave America’s diplomatic mission in Chengdu, with Washington claiming that China has no right to respond in that kind of tit-for-tat manner. China strongly protests US officials’ “forcible entry” into the Chinese diplomatic mission in Houston […]
The federal government has entered the Chinese Consulate in Houston after taking a Chinese fugitive scientist into custody at the nation’s San Francisco Consulate. Earlier this week, the Houston police and fire department were called to the consulate over reports that they were burning documents in the courtyard. The Chinese did not allow them entry to the building, but were evicted on Friday. BREAKING: U.S. officials […]
American officials have broken into a former Chinese diplomatic facility in Texas, forcing their way less than an hour after its staff vacated the building, which Washington ordered to close earlier this week. The federal officials, some believed to be with the State Department, gained entry to the facility just before 5pm on Friday evening, using power tools to pry open a back door after failing […]
Chinese Foreign Ministry has ordered the US government to shutter a diplomatic office in Chengdu, a move Beijing deemed a tit-for-tat response to Washington’s recent expulsion of Chinese consulate staff from a facility in Texas. “China has decided to revoke the license for the establishment and operation of the US Consulate General in Chengdu and put forward specific requirements for the Consulate General to stop all […]
US President Donald Trump said he could shutter additional Chinese consulates following the closure of a diplomatic facility in Texas, leaving the door open for further escalation as tensions soar between the two nations. The comment came during a White House presser on Wednesday, following the State Department’s decision to order a Chinese consulate in Houston to shut down within 72 hours “in order to protect American […]
22 Jul, 2020 07:33 Follow RT on The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the US asked it to close down its consulate in Houston, Texas. Beijing condemned the move, promising retaliation if the decision is not reversed. Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times newspaper, tweeted that Beijing was given 72 hours to vacate the consulate building. “This is a crazy move,” he wrote. The US […]
(Above Texas Republican Chairman James Dickey) According to the Texan nine hours ago: Federal Judge Lynn Hughes of the U.S. Southern District Court granted immediate relief to the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) Friday afternoon, requiring the City of Houston to make available the George R. Brown Convention Center both this weekend and next weekend, if necessary, for the party’s convention. This morning, the RPT joined […]
A Spike in People Dying at Home Suggests Coronavirus Deaths in Houston May Be Higher Than Reported by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News HOUSTON — When Karen Salazar stopped by to check on her mother on the evening of June 22, she found her in worse shape than she expected. Her mother, Felipa Medellín, 54, had been complaining about chest pains and fatigue, symptoms that she […]
A medical worker walks past a row of ambulances parked outside Houston Methodist Hospital on June 22. The hospital is treating a current surge of COVID-19 cases. Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters A medical worker walks past a row of ambulances parked outside Houston Methodist Hospital on June 22. The hospital is treating a current surge of COVID-19 cases. Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters Hospitals in […]
As Texas faces a massive surge of COVID-19 cases and increasing criticism from public health experts for having opened too early and too quickly, Houston has been at the forefront of the outbreak. Hospitals in the state’s most populous city are quickly running out of beds—including Texas Medical Center, the largest hospital in the world, where ICU beds were at more than 99 percent normal capacity […]
Fifteen days after he cried out for his mother as he couldn’t breathe, George Floyd was laid to rest alongside her in Houston on Tuesday. Floyd’s gold casket was taken to the cemetery from a church on the southwest side of the city, where the last of three memorial services was held for Floyd, 46, who died after a white Minneapolis police officer knelt on his […]
A woman stops to photograph a memorial for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church on Tuesday in Houston. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP A woman stops to photograph a memorial for George Floyd at The Fountain of Praise church on Tuesday in Houston. Eric Gay/AP George Floyd, whose killing by police inspired days of protests in the U.S. and around the […]
HOUSTON—Denise Douglas and her daughter Brittany arrived at a strip mall in southeast Houston around 8:30 a.m. on Monday, more than three hours before the first bus would arrive to shuttle them to the church where the body of George Floyd was on view. They held bouquets donated by Mayesh Wholesale Florist and fanned themselves with paper fans that read “Stop Racism Now.” “We all have […]
This is just horrific!The leftist mob is attacking Children’s Hospitals now. Advertisement – story continues below A child cries out in terror in this video as rioters launched bricks and rocks through a walkway glass at Houston’s children’s hospital.The mob then turned on her father’s car parked nearby. 🤬🤯CHILD TERRORIZED BY “PEACEFUL PROTESTORS” AT A CHILDRENS HOSPITAL IN HOUSTON…. Child cries out in terror as rioters […]
As thousands take to the streets in cities across the US to protest police brutality, one sex worker in Texas sought to sacrifice her night’s pay for the cause, offering to spend the night with any cop who quits in viral video. At a demonstration in Houston on Tuesday, one of hundreds inspired by the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis last week, […]
US 07:53 GMT 31.05.2020(updated 08:37 GMT 31.05.2020) Get short URL The incident comes after a series of clashes between police and protesters in the United States, as people are holding mass demonstrations following the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police on Monday. Houston police have launched an investigation after numerous social media accounts posted footage depicting a mounted officer trampling a […]
Angry Leftists are rioting tonight in several US cities.Liberal mobs are destroying property again in several cities. Protests were held tonight in:– NY, Brooklyn– Milwaukee, WI– Houston, TX– Fort Wayne, IN– Washington DC– Atlanta, GA– Kansas City, MO– Denver, CO– Las Vegas, NV– San Jose, CA– Detroit, MI– Boston, MA– Chicago, IL The leftist mob in Houston was filmed destroying a police vehicle. This now in […]
Protests against police violence have spread across the country in response to the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody May 25. Video and photos show hundreds of people, many in medical masks, gathering in downtown Los Angeles, where demonstrators blocked a freeway and smashed the windows of a police car, and in Memphis, where police had erected barricades. Protesters rallied in Houston […]
Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo said Adrian Mereadis’ family has requested that the footage capturing his death be kept out of public view. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo said Adrian Mereadis’ family has requested that the footage capturing his death be kept out of public view. Jose Luis Magana/AP After days of public demands […]