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Carlo and his two daughters at the El Buen Samaritano Migrant Shelter in Juárez on Sept. 30, 2020. The family crossed the border in Mexicali, Mexico, but were sent to Juárez to await the Migrant Protection Protocols court process.
It s been a year full of news, dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and the election. KERA has been bringing you stories highlighting life in North Texas and beyond, seeing how these big, national events have affected us locally. Here is a collection of our best stories from 2020. I Had To Make A Decision : How Domestic Violence Survivors Are Navigating COVID-19
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Here’s what’s coming up on Texas Standard for Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Listen on your Texas public radio station, or ask your smart speaker to play Texas Standard. We’ll have full posts for each story, including audio, a little later today.
Texans Still Holding out on Biden Win
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has now publicly acknowledged that Joe Biden is president-elect but few Republican members of the Texas congressional delegation followed suit. In fact, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and another 16 of 22 GOP House members from Texas refrained from acknowledging Biden’s win. Todd Gillman, Washington bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, talks to the Standard.
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On Tuesday, America’s COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign continued. Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas was one of the 19 additional hospitals in the state to receive vaccine shipments after the first distribution of doses Monday.
Parkland COVID Unit Nurse Perla Sanchez-Perez was the first to receive a vaccine a the hospital. She said she has a family and wants to keep them safe.
Perla Sanchez-Perez, RN, COVID unit nurse @Parkland is the first to receive vaccine.
She says she has a family and wants to keep them safe and that she’s excited to be protected for them and her patients. @keranewspic.twitter.com/SeqMuZhRjB hady mawajdeh (@hadysauce) December 15, 2020