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...and Serbia 200th day of the Hamas-Israel conflict after Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7 last year UK: 100th anniversary of both the first radio broadcast by a British monarch, George V...
...Along with pockets of support in other states, notably Miami-Dade county in Florida, the results in Texas helped Trump improve on his performance with Hispanic voters nationwide by several points in 2020...
...West Texas Intermediate crude settled at $95.46 a barrel on Monday....
...Paxton said on Thursday that he had instructed Austin, the state’s capital, and the surrounding Travis County to comply with state law. “They blew me off....
...At 12:15, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office, which was already standing by for the event, began responding to the first of fifteen distress calls from boaters. Boats were taking on water....
...“Personally, I don’t think you should have to wear a mask to vote and I think that would be considered voter suppression,” Kim Travis, a Republican poll worker in rural Walworth county, Wisconsin, said....
...Chad Ricks, a nurse practitioner who runs a facility in Riverside County, said all of its 42 intensive care beds were full....
...Like the time he was arrested at age 29, in Travis County, Texas, as an Associated Press story put it at the time, “on suspicion of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting...
...So single drop-offs will have to serve for the 4.7m people of Harris County including greater Houston and the 1.2m of Travis County including Austin....
...“Cases were starting to stabilise and the county was better able to manage its intensive care capacity,” says Mr Ricks, who is currently recovering from the virus after contracting it while working at another...
...Last month he took the delocation package and moved to Lake Travis, a suburb 20 miles west of Austin....
...Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson, France; Hugh Guilford, Buckinghamshire, England Polymath 1,064: Michael Foottit, London Crossword 16,413: James Leaver, Sydney; Ardeshir Dalal, Texas...
...On Tuesday this week yields spiked above 7 per cent for Texas bonds maturing in August, according to data collected by the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board....
...Rising deaths and hospitalisations — which have had a severe impact on Texas in recent weeks — were having a “chilling effect on economic growth”, he says....
...Business groups and think-tanks are making a mistake to cast Uber v London as a totemic fight to preserve capitalism....
...The recent weather developments in the US (Hurricane Laura) may pose some temporary risks in the Texas region....
...The losers included public retirement systems in Texas, Pennsylvania and New York City....
...Further fuelling efforts to curb minority voting is the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v Holder, a 2013 case. A divided court struck down portions of the VRA as unconstitutional....
...There were reports of similar issues following record turnout at polling stations in Texas and New York City....
...Orange County, a Republican stronghold south of Los Angeles, is the site of a handful of neck and neck races....
...“It feels like there’s a lot more work,” says an Allegheny Ludland worker named Travis. “And on paper it shows it. If you have any drive at all — you can make money.”...
...Mr Khosrowshahi did not address the question of what role former chief Travis Kalanick would play in the company....
...The international benchmark Brent crude and US marker West Texas Intermediate were each 0.2 per cent lower, at $58.08 and $51.97 a barrel, respectively....
...On the national stage, the job of selling prison reform has fallen to conservatives such as Gingrich and Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who now runs the department of energy....
...Texas governor who once campaigned to eliminate the agency....
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