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by Chase Burns • Feb 8, 2021 at 6:00 pm Is very strong. Not for the head. Courtesy Gorilla Glue Here's your daily evening round-up of the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to The Stranger to keep it comin'!) Republican U.S. Rep. Ron Wright of Texas is dead: He was 67. Two weeks ago, he contracted COVID-19. Wright will go down as the first sitting U.S. Congress member to die after falling ill to the coronavirus. Pour one out for Ron, a man who recently asked "What are we waiting for?"...

) Australian Men's Health's Comeback Issue. First, a kiss (Images via video still) SCREEN RANT: Lucas Koka Penteado and Gilbert Noguieria shared the first-ever gay kiss on Big Brother Brazil — and then one of them self-evicted. WAPO: Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Alabama) is now the fourth Republican in the Senate to announce he won't run in 2022. YOUTUBE: John Fetterman, currently the Democratic lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, is officially running for the Senate seat of his state. THE HILL: New COVID-19 cases have dropped below 100K for the first time in 2021. Yay! (Oh, that's daily.) ...

Ron Wright outside the Capitol introducing the K9 Hero Act in November 2020. (Twitter/RepRonWright) "Over the past few years, Congressman Wright had kept a rigorous work schedule on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives and at home in Texas' Congressional District 6 while being treated for cancer," it added. He had undergone treatment for lung cancer after it was diagnosed in 2018. “As friends, family, and many of his constituents will know, Ron maintained his quick wit and optimism until the very end,” the statement further said. “Despite years of painful, sometimes debilitati...

Texas Republican Ron Wright is first member of Congress to die from COVID-19 FacebookTwitterEmail Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), in Midlothian, Texas, on June 14, 2019. (Shaban Athuman/Dallas Morning News/TNS)Shaban Athuman, MBR / TNS Texas Rep. Ron Wright, a 67-year-old Republican from Arlington, died Sunday from COVID-19, according to a statement from his congressional office. He is the first sitting member of Congress to die of the virus. Wright and his wife, Susan, had been admitted to Baylor Hospital in Dallas two weeks ago after testing positive. “Today I am deeply saddened by the loss of...

22 Jan 2021 Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) offered his office to National Guardsmen late Thursday evening after members were forced to leave the Capitol grounds because of a prior complaint from a Democrat congressman, who allegedly took issue after spotting a maskless Guardsman in a cafe earlier in the day. “To any members of the National Guard protecting our Capitol — if you need a warm place to rest and recharge, my office is open to you,” Gonzales said late Thursday as pictures began to emerge on social media showing soldiers sleeping in a parking garage as D.C. temperatures dipped into ...