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Created in 2002, ICE has been maligned over the years by conservatives for not doing enough to curb illegal immigration and by the left for deporting too many immigrants. During former President Donald Trump’s administration, progressive activists even called for ICE to be disbanded, a request moderate Democrats like Biden have rejected. Gonzalez, a Democrat and longtime HPD veteran who served three terms on Houston’s City Council, publicly pushed back against harsh immigration policies dur...

The CDC’s official stance on masks as of Tuesday is that “Outdoor visits and activities pose minimal risk to fully vaccinated people themselves or to those around them,” so fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks outside in most situations. However, the CDC still recommends vaccinated people wear masks...

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, harassment and attacks against Jewish U.S. residents continued at near-record levels according to the Anti-Defamation league. In its annual report on antisemitism across the United States, ADL announced Tuesday that it recorded 2,024 cases of anti-Jewish assault, harassment or vandalism that occurred in 2020. While the number of incidents reported to ADL is down 4 percent from 2019, 2020 was still the third worst year on record for reported incidents against American...

On a Thursday night in mid-March 2020, the Vazquez family were eating dinner at Spanky’s Pizza on Telephone Road, at a fundraiser for Ortiz Middle School’s theater department. They were celebrating 13-year-old Isabella’s performance at the school talent show that night where she had sung "When Will My Life Begin?" from Disney’s Tangled. All of a sudden, 15-year-old Daniel announced that he’d just seen on social media that Houston Independent School District had cancelled classes for ...

Houston Methodist made headlines at the end of March when the hospital chain’s CEO Dr. Marc Boom made the call to require all of his employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to keep their jobs. It was the first major hospital system in the country to announce it would make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory. Even before making that move, the hospital offered $500 bonuses to any employee who demonstrated proof of vaccination. The overwhelming majority of Houston Methodist’s workforc...

In one of the more absurd news alerts the Houston Press has received in recent history, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that its security officers at Hobby Airport discovered a breakfast taco full of eggs, cheese, what appears to be brisket and a small bag of crystal meth earlier...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a nationwide pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s one shot COVID-19 vaccine due to new evidence of some extremely rare but potentially dangerous side effects in a small number of the millions of U.S. residents who have gotten that particular vaccine. According to the FDA and CDC, out of the more than 6.8 million U.S. residents who have gotten the Johnson & Johnson vaccine s...

The Houston Chronicle is down one Texans beat writer after the paper fired reporter Aaron Wilson on Friday once it came to light that he made some seriously boneheaded comments on a Massachusetts sports radio show last month about the sexual misconduct accusations against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that the state had received two anonymous tips earlier that day about alleged “abuse and neglect” at a San Antonio facility housing unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S. border seeking asylum. Even though Abbott admitted the Texas Rangers and the Texas Department of Public Safety haven’t even had time to investigate the allegations, he still accused President Joe Biden of “presiding over the abuse of children” during a hastily organized press c...

Rice University’s former fencing coach Mauro Hamza has been accused of sexually assaulting one of his female pupils when she was only 17 at a Phoenix hotel in 1995 according to a civil lawsuit filed in Arizona. The suit accuses Hamza of not only coercing the anonymous plaintiff to have sex with him in their shared hotel room during a youth fencing tournament, but also claims he repeatedly molested and sexually harassed her in the years after she first met Hamza in Houston at age 15 at an even...