Eligible citizens of Harris County, Texas, will receive the first payment of a new “guaranteed basic income program” starting in 2024. The program is funded with $20.5 million from President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act which was passed in 2021 for COVID-19 relief. Originally approved in June, the “Uplift Harris” …
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A Texas man who was part of a romance scam that bilked a Missouri woman out of $1.2 million was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in federal prison and ordered to repay the money. Rotimi Oladimeji, 38, of Richardson, Texas, was sentenced one year after he pleaded guilty to …
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FIRST ON FOX: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday lodged an arrest detainer against an illegal immigrant from Lebanon accused of kidnapping his Uber passenger in Texas. Sameh Mohamad Chami, 49,was arrested by Friendswood Police Department on Aug. 6 after allegedly sexually assaulting a young woman while working as …
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Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will be filing a lawsuit against Yelp for allegedly for adding “inaccurate and misleading language” to pregnancy crisis centers listings on the platform, Fox News has learned. The lawsuit comes after the business review site and aggregator’s CEO, Jeremy Stoppelman, said that Yelp needed …
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A Texas death row inmate was executed Thursday via lethal injection, just over 22 years after killing a 5-year-old girl he abducted from a retail store and strangled to death, according to the Texas Department of Corrections. Despite repeated attempts by his defense attorneys to halt the process, David Renteria, …
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On the 32nd anniversary of the killing of four girls found nude, gagged and shot dead execution-style in the ashes of a yogurt shop, their families and the haunted Austin, Texas, community still haven’t seen justice served. Firefighters responding to a fire at the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop …
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A Colombian woman who entered the U.S. illegally by crossing the border in El Paso, Texas, was released and told to check in with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York City in 2031. The woman’s attorney, Matthew Kolken, told Fox News in the nearly 30 years of …
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A Venezuelan national wanted for attempted femicide in a Russian roulette-style attack has been arrested in Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said Monday. ICE identified the suspect as 31-year-old Raul Enrique Pargas Rodriguez, who was wanted on a Venezuelan warrant for allegedly torturing and trying to kill a …
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, blasted organizations and individuals allegedly funding protests at various Charlie Kirk memorials, in addition to backing “violent” and “extreme” anti-ICE and anti-Israel demonstrations. In July, Cruz introduced legislation that would allow the Department of Justice (DOJ) to impose Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act(RICO) charges on …
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A second man is in custody stemming from a San Antonio mass shooting that left a home riddled with bullets and a young girl dead. Bryan Salazar, 20, is now in custody and charged with capital murder, injury to a child, aggravated assault from a mass shooting and drug and …
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