Crime

Monday marked the start of the murder trial for Ruben Alvarado, who is charged in the killing of 26-year-old Chynal Lindsey, a Black trans woman whose body was pulled out of White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas, on June 1, 2019.

Texas Republican state Rep. Matt Krause has compiled a list of 850 books he has identified as materials that "might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex," and requested that school districts report possessing any books from the list.

Good News

Rapstress Megan Thee Stallion recently teamed up with Popeyes to gift a Black-founded nonprofit with a six-figure endowment.

Crime

Terry Duane Turner is free on bail after killing unarmed Adil Dghoughi, lying to police about the circumstances and then being allowed to turn himself in weeks later in the shooting of an immigrant from Morocco who only pulled into Turner's driveway to turn his car around in Martinville, Texas.

The Biden Administration will comply with a court order to reinstate a Trump-era border policy called “Migrant Protection Protocols.” Also known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, it makes asylum-seekers wait or be returned to Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court

Health

While legislators in states like Texas, Florida and Mississippi are implementing restrictive abortion laws, the Biden administration is lifting a Trump-era restriction barring clinics from referring pregnant women to abortion providers. 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said they would investigate the Rexas border patrol agents on horseback, but they both said they saw nothing wrong when viewing the same photos and videos decent people were horrified by. 

About 14,000 Haitian migrants in Texas seeking asylum will reportedly be removed and returned to Haiti by the federal government as the crippled island nation is still battling setbacks from a series of political crises and natural disasters.

Investigators said the officers involved handcuffed Joshua Coney and then “unnecessarily dragged” him while he pleaded for medical assistance.

After enduring the worst of COVID last March, the Houston, Texas rapper Scarface was placed on dialysis and suffered from kidney failure.

Politics

Texas' new restrictive voting law is a perfect example of how, for several decades, the GOP has depended on racism to keep white people in power and nonwhites on the outside.

North Texas brothers David and Samuel Tshiongo have opened up about their personal struggles with sickle cell anemia in an effort to help other families in the same situation understand more about how to stay healthy and informed.