Posts

Travis County District Judge Catherine Mauzy granted a temporary injunction against Abbott’s ban in 19 different school districts includes those in major cities like Dallas, Houston Austin and Fort Worth. Paxton immediately appealed, temporarily blocking the injunction from going into effect, according to The Austin American-Statesman. Mauzy said that Abbott did not have legal authority to issue a mask mandate ban “by executive fiat” and said that the ban “threatens to overwhelm public schools and could result in more extreme measures such as the school closures that have already begun in several Texas school districts....

Chief medical officer Dr. Joseph Chang treated 170 patients with COVID-19 on Tuesday. He said one of them had gone to a party with friends and contracted COVID-19. “Before she was symptomatic, she visited her 80-year-old grandparents and they got sick,” Chang told local news outlet WFAA. When the granddaughter got sick she was treated in the hospital’s intensive care unit, where she was put into a medically induced coma and was given a ventilator to help her breathe....

GOP Representative Michael McCaul of Texas called for imposing sanctions against the military junta in Myanmar which has seized government power and is committing violence against the country’s civil opposition movement. “Let’s sanction the military leaders,” McCaul said when asked how the U.S. should intervene in Myanmar, if at all, in a new video produced by the civic media organization A Starting Point (ASP). “They would be denied access to bank accounts, access to any business that the United States and our allies do with Burma....

According to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), 1.89 million people have not returned to receive their second dose of either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, as of September 6. Of those 1.89 million people, 11 percent, or more than 1 million people, are now more than 90 days past the due date for their second dose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that the time frame for a second dose is three weeks after the first shot of Pfizer and four weeks after the first shot of Moderna....

Kyle Biedermann made the claim during a debate on Thursday about a a controversial GOP elections bill dubbed the SB1. Democrat Erin Zweiner tabled an amendment to prevent participants who encouraged or participated in a state of federal insurrection from becoming a voter assistant, The Dallas Morning News reports. In response, Biedermann said: “People that attended that rally and attended the January 6 event, you’re calling them all insurrectionists?”...

Johnson entered the race trailing Jeff Gordon by nine points in the 2007 Chase. Having run well all day, and with Gordon laboring in seventh place, he could have taken the points lead by finishing second. But he refused to settle for second and he and Kenseth engaged in a thrilling door-to-door battle in which they raced side-by-side for several laps before Johnson finally pulled ahead with two laps to go....

Rescuers said they won’t immediately attempt an underwater evacuation because the boys have not yet learned adequate diving skills. But if heavy rains start again, divers will try to take the boys out right away, Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osatanakorn said at a midnight news conference on Friday. The same day saw a disheartening setback with the death of a former Thai navy SEAL diving in flooded passageways to deliver oxygen supplies....

Current rules state that residents can gather with two other households if they meet outdoors with physical distancing and wear face coverings. However, on Wednesday, Los Angeles County health officials are set to discuss a proposal to ban all gatherings of people not in the same household, ABC7 reports. According to Deadline, the new order would include individuals remaining in their homes as much as possible, a ban on different households meeting—except for outdoor church and protests—and only essential retail allowed to stay open at 35 percent capacity....

Without the panache that action brings, constantly littering the gameplay experience with loud noises and flashy effects, it seems current gamers are left feeling bored. It’s hard to not go into a “back in my day” speech about the beauty of old school turn-based RPG’s that are still often considered some of the best games in history, many of them developed by Square Enix (Squaresoft back then). It was another time and another generation; things have most definitely changed....

No-one in the last 30 years has made it to 10 Ligue 1 goals in less games, with the Paris-born youngster finding the net at an astonishing rate since debuting as a 16-year-old against Caen in 2015. A seasoned professional would be delighted by scoring once every 90 minutes; for a rookie in his first full season, it is simply mind-blowing. Donnarumma crowned NxGn winner It comes as no surprise that on Wednesday, Mbappe was named in Goal’s 2017 NxGn, which ranks the 50 best teenagers in the world born in 1998 or after....

Zubaidi’s freshly printed stationery states only that he heads “the executive council of Baghdad,” and many in his entourage insist they’re just volunteers. Someone has even removed the words “presidential suite” from the presidential suite (nail holes leave an imprint that can still be read). Yet Zubaidi, whom some now call the “mayor of Baghdad,” claims that community leaders on a 22-member executive council, formed April 17 (apparently at Zubaidi’s invitation), “elected me, and I’m working with the U....

Since co-op games have their own flavor this ten best list will be focused primarily on competitive multiplayer titles, but some co-op games with a wide variety of modes warrant being included. The year 2020 stoked people’s nostalgia with brand new games that hearken back to classics of the 90s, but also saw the introduction of fresh new ideas in competitive play. Rather than try to rank such diverse games, this list is in alphabetical order....

RELATED: The 10 Best Xbox Games Ever Made (According To Metacritic) Admittedly, few titles actually deliver on this promise. RPGs are incredibly difficult to get right, with many seeming satisfied to waste the player’s time with pointless fetch quests and mundane busywork. However, the genre’s greatest achievers offer truly one-of-a-kind experiences! According to Metacritic, these are the best RPGs of all time. 10 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood And Wine The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is an all-around brilliant RPG, one that set the standard when it comes to narrative-driven sidequests....

RELATED: Mega Man: Every Protagonist In The Series, Ranked It’s when the dial is turned up that these characters shine, forcing players to take more than a few runs at it. Frustrating beyond belief? Yes, but that’s what makes a great boss battle. These bosses are remembered through the decades as some of the hardest obstacles to overcome and for good reason. 10 Shadow Man Shadow Man sends many players into fits....

The good news is that many of these SaaS tools are free to use, and while there are paid versions for some, they’re relatively affordable. With these tools, you become more flexible with work, spend less, and optimize your data’s security. Let’s get into it. What Is SaaS? Software as a Service, often called SaaS, is a cloud-based software delivery model whereby cloud providers host applications provided to users over the internet on a pay-as-you-go basis....

Big shows released in April like Shadow and Bone and The Circle made it to the list, but other shows have shown major staying power on “most watched” charts since the early months of 2021. Read on to discover what Netflix users around the world have been watching this month. The 10 most watched TV shows on Netflix in April 2021 10.The Blacklist Season 7 of the NBC crime drama starring James Spader came to Netflix in March, and viewers around the world have been binging the former adventures of Red (including the controversial animated episode) while they wait for the current season of the show to return to screens in May....

RELATED: 10 Biggest Video Game Controversies of 2019 Also, like any other year, 2019 produced its fair share of awfulness. Titles that are only worth trying out as a joke. Out of the hundreds of games released in 2019, here are the ten titles with the worst aggregate scores on Metacritic! Ports or remakes will not be considered, which is the only reason the Nintendo Switch’s Blades of Time and Thief Of Thieves: Season One are not on this list....

RELATED: 10 Hidden Movie and TV References In GTA 5 The Indiana Jones games have been spread over an impressive array of consoles, from tie-in games on the Atari 2600 and Commodore CDTV to newer adventures on the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and PC. The release of the divisive Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008 inspired a new wave of games, as three titles were released in 2009, including a second LEGO game for the franchise, turning Lucasfilm MVP Harrison Ford into brick form once more....

Explanations for this fashion include petite pets’ lower cost of living and these breeds being better adapted to urban environments. Whatever the explanation, here are the most on-trend small four-legged friend of 2020, according to registration statistics from the American Kennel Club. 15. Pekingese This perennially popular Oriental aristocrat’s origins can be traced to ancient China. While the Pekingese’s popularity has slowly declined in recent years, possibly due to its high grooming demands, these toy dogs still make excellent pets....

The survey from The Dallas Morning News/University of Texas at Tyler found 47 percent of respondents said they would support the Republican Abbott, while 36 percent said they would vote for O’Rourke. Sixteen percent said they would vote for someone else. Abbott holds a firm lead among Republican and white voters over O’Rourke. The incumbent governor also holds a small—though statistically insignificant given the poll’s margin of error—lead among Hispanic respondents, 40 percent to O’Rourke’s 39 percent....