Tag: Texas

Dr. Shahid Shafi, speaks before members of the State Republican Executive Committee, following a vote in favor of resolution that opposes an effort by the Tarrant County Republican Party (TCRP) to remove him as vice chair because of his religion, during the committee's quarterly meeting on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Austin. Email exchanges involving county Republican leaders in Texas reveal efforts to remove Shafi, a party vice chairman because he's Muslim.

Beltway Confidential

The GOP is finally turning a new leaf in rejecting bigotry

Siraj Hashmi · January 11, 2019 10:59 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Ore., wait for Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., before a news conference to press Congress to intervene on behalf of the Affordable Care Act, after a federal judge in Texas ruled it unconstitutional, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

5th Circuit pauses Obamacare case due to government shutdown

Kimberly Leonard · January 11, 2019 6:00 pm

President Donald Trump speaks as he tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas, as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens at right.

Trump issues new warning about southern border: ‘Country cannot be safe’ without a wall

Melissa Quinn · January 11, 2019 4:50 pm

Former New York Knick Carmelo Anthony, third from left, his wife La La Anthony, second from left, and an unidentified woman visit a memorial to Lesandro Guzman-Feliz near the site of his murder in the Bronx borough of New York, Monday, June 25, 2018. Several suspects are in custody in New Jersey and awaiting extradition in connection with last week's killing of the 15-year-old boy in the Bronx that has sparked community outrage. Police said that Guzman-Feliz's death was gang related.

While millennials kill Applebee’s, Generation Z is keeping actual gangs alive

Brendan Pringle · January 11, 2019 3:00 pm

During the briefing, Acosta insinuated that the White House wants to allow only immigrants from Great Britain and Australia into the U.S. because they can speak English.

Border Patrol agents to Jim Acosta: Try the border at night

Anna Giaritelli · January 11, 2019 5:38 am

President Trump listens to a question from CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in D.C.

‘Dear Diary’: Trump mocks Jim Acosta’s border tweet

Anna Giaritelli · January 11, 2019 2:08 am

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Beto O’Rourke opens wide

Seth Mandel · January 11, 2019 12:00 am

President Trump speaks at a roundtable on immigration and border security.

Trump claims a border wall ‘would stop human trafficking in this section of the world’

Steven Nelson · January 10, 2019 9:51 pm

In this Jan. 10, 2018 file photo, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gestures as he addresses a joint session of the the 2018 session in the House chambers at the Capitol in Richmond, Va.

Terry McAuliffe jabs at Beto O’Rourke’s Instagram: ‘I’m not doing that in a dentist chair’

Naomi Lim · January 10, 2019 8:11 pm

Stephanie Toti of New York, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, waits for a hearing to begin in a courtroom packed with more than a dozen abortion rights supporters clad in pink in Oklahoma City Friday, Jan. 21, 2011.

Beltway Confidential

Abortion activists are now putting women’s health at risk

Nicole Russell · January 10, 2019 7:19 pm

CNN's Jim Acosta walks at the North Lawn of the White House.

Jim Acosta shows ‘walls work’ at border, GOP politicians tease

Katelyn Caralle · January 10, 2019 6:44 pm

President Trump gestures as a reporter asks a question, as he speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington, en route for a trip to the border in Texas as the government shutdown continues.

Trump cancels Davos trip over Dems’ ‘intransigence on border security’

Melissa Quinn · January 10, 2019 6:30 pm