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• Trump prods Congress amid debate on immigration

  13-02-2018 23:28 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A high-stakes Senate debate over immigration got off to a halting start Tuesday, with Republican and Democratic leaders immediately at loggerheads over how to move forward and President Donald Trump warning this was the "last chance" to extend protections to "Dreamer" immigrants.
  Trump issued the warning in a morning tweet as the Senate opened what was billed as an unusual and open-ended debate on a host of immigration issues. Democrats had pushed for the debate, hopeful
  
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• Cruz, Cornyn on different sides of Dreamers debate

  13-02-2018 23:01 via chron.com
  Would granting a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought here illegally as children be amnesty? Texas' two Republican U.S. senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, provide two very different answers to that question, which is one of the four "pillars" of President Donald Trump's immigration plan.
  
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• Police: Man shot to death after drug buy in SW Houston

  13-02-2018 22:53 via chron.com
  Police said the victim wasCrishun Chaney, 19, who tried to buy narcotics from an unknown man who eventually shot him around 6:35 p.m. in the 10800 block of Bexley Drive, the release said.
  
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• University of Houston cancels alert after report of person on campus with weapon

  13-02-2018 22:30 via chron.com
  University of Houston officials are warning of a person on the UH main campus who is reported to have a weapon.
  
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• Trump's budget axes 5 climate change projects from NASA

  13-02-2018 22:16 via chron.com
  Since President Donald Trump took office last year, he's made his viewpoint on climate change clear by reversing Obama-era climate policies. And on Monday, he released a $19.9 billion budget proposal for NASA that cut five Earth science projects that were climate change related.
  
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• Texas lawyer releases Olympics-themed commercial

  13-02-2018 21:31 via chron.com
  Fort Worth lawyer Bryan Wilson wants America's athletes competing in the winter Olympics to know he's thinking of them in a new commercial.
  
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• First TV ad hits in key Houston congressional race

  13-02-2018 20:39 via chron.com
  Democrat Tahir Javed is up with a new television ad in his bid to win a congressional seat in Houston. The health care company owner not surprisingly is focusing the ad on his background in the medical world.
  
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• Trying to find a campaign event for Land Commissioner George P. Bush? Good luck.

  13-02-2018 20:21 via chron.com
  Bush has no public campaign events listed on his campaign website or Facebook page. He has not participated in any of the dozen forums with the other Republicans candidates.
  
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• Rounding up over two decades of Astrodome ideas, from the practical to the absurd

  13-02-2018 19:28 via chron.com
  Since the Houston Astros left the Astrodome after the 1999 season, there have been a number of ideas bandied about regarding what to do with the Eighth Wonder of the World.
  
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• University of Houston's Renu Khator on open UT chancellor job: 'I am good here'

  13-02-2018 19:00 via chron.com
  University of Texas System regents shouldn't come knocking at Renu Khator's door. The University of Houston System's Chancellor said she isn't interested in UT's open chancellorship, which William McRaven said he would vacate by the end of the academic year. "I am good here," Khator said, when asked by the Houston Chronicle in January if she was interested in McRaven's job. "I am very happy here."
  
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• Abbott to announce $1B in additional FEMA funds for Hurricane Harvey

  13-02-2018 18:44 via chron.com
  Texas cities and counties hit by Hurricane Harvey will get over $1 billion in hazard mitigation funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Gov. Greg Abbott is announcing Tuesday.
  
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• U.S. luger Emily Sweeney taken to clinic after crash on final run

  13-02-2018 17:39 via chron.com
  DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea - They walked away from the luge track one after the next, the three leading women of American luge, each disappointed and shaken in her own way. The one who finished in 19th place said her performance was "incredibly devastating." The one who finished sixth, in the final Olympic race of her career, said she just wanted to go to bed and sleep. The one who crashed, caromed and didn't finish the race was the luger most upset of all, evaluated by doctors who detected neit
  
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• First Abbott reelection ad: 600,000 new jobs

  13-02-2018 17:38 via chron.com
  In a first push to get Republicans motivated to turn out in the March 6 primary, Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday launched a 30-second television ad in Houston and Dallas extolling Texas' job growth."Over 600,000 new jobs," states the ad, entitled "This is Texas," that began running a day after Democratic primary challenger Andrew White of Houston aired his first TV ad -- the first of the gubernatorial campaign.
  
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• Houston wants stricter rules on building in floodplains. So what flooded there?

  13-02-2018 17:25 via chron.com
  Most of Houston's structural flooding during Harvey occurred outside any mapped floodplain.
  
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• Harris County OKs $105 million renovation of Astrodome

  13-02-2018 17:09 via chron.com
  Harris County Commissioners Court voted unanimously Tuesday to move forward with a plan to renovate the Astrodome into a revenue-generating event and convention space.
  
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• Looking for the sun? Expect clouds and 'roller coaster' temps this week

  13-02-2018 16:41 via chron.com
  If you're looking for sunshine, you'll have to wait: The week will get warmer, forecaster say, but the clouds will stick around.
  
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• Texas teacher, wife of athletic director accused of improper relationship with 15-year-old student

  13-02-2018 15:11 via chron.com
  A 37-year-old teacher at Caldwell High School in Burleson County is accused of having an improper relationship with a 15-year-old student, according to reports.
  
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• Police seek suspects involved in 2016 SW Houston shooting

  13-02-2018 14:50 via chron.com
  Houston police are asking for help finding three suspects who were involved in the 2016 ambush and fatal shooting of a man in Southwest Houston.Deontra Dontell Smith, 37, died on Sept. 11 2016.
  
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• What exactly does the Texas General Land Office do?

  13-02-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  The average voter often knows little about Texas' General Land Office or its leader, but this year, the land commissioner has one of the state's most critical jobs as hundreds of communities, including the state's largest city, continue to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
  
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• Harris County to add more interim courthouse space

  13-02-2018 14:00 via chron.com
  Harris County courts will operate in two more far-flung locations after Tuesday if county commissioners vote to use courtrooms at theTexas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall College of Law and the county administration building.The two new "auxiliary courthouses" join a hodge-podge of courtrooms that have been opened temporarily since the 20-story Criminal Justice Center at 1201 Franklin was shuttered after being flooded by Hurricane Harvey. It is expected to be closed until 2019.
  
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• Want a say in how Texas will fix special education?

  13-02-2018 13:20 via chron.com
  Parents, students and education advocates have until midnight Sunday to provide feedback on a draft plan to overhaul Texas' special education services.
  
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• I-10 East makeover in very early stages, starting with Tuesday meeting

  13-02-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  Meetings are first step in redesign of freeway from downtown Houston to Mont Belvieu, though it will be years before any construction comes from it
  
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• After fatal fires, investigation, Houston to unveil beefed-up lodging house safety ordinances

  13-02-2018 13:00 via chron.com
  Nearly a year after fires at two Houston multi-resident living facilities left three dead and displaced dozens others, city officials will announce proposed changes city ordinances which they say will help prevent similar tragedies in the future.
  
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• Winning numbers for Feb. 12, 2018

  13-02-2018 05:27 via chron.com
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  Next jackpot 2/14 $11 million
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• Ted Cruz cast lone vote against advancing 'Dreamer' legislation

  13-02-2018 04:03 via chron.com
  The 97-1 vote dramatized the Texas Republican's hardline stance against President Donald Trump's proposal to grant a path to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children.
  
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• Former Dallas Cowboys running back listed as ‘critical missing’ person

  13-02-2018 03:55 via chron.com
  Dallas police are searching for former Dallas Cowboys running back Lincoln Coleman, who was last seen days ago.
  
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• One killed in sw Houston shooting

  13-02-2018 03:28 via chron.com
  Officers were dispatched to the 10100 block of Beechnut Street around 7 p.m., police said.
  
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• Trump Jr.'s wife treated after white powder sent to residence

  13-02-2018 03:27 via chron.com
  NEW YORK - Donald Trump Jr.'s wife was taken to a New York City hospital on Monday as a precaution after she opened an envelope addressed to her husband that contained an unidentified white powder, though police later said the substance wasn't dangerous, authorities said.
  The frightening episode happened after 10 a.m. when Trump, 40, opened the letter addressed to the president's son at her mother's midtown Manhattan apartment, investigators said. She called 911 and said she was coughing and fel
  
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• Obama jokes he failed to get artist to give him smaller ears

  13-02-2018 02:40 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama speaks, people listen. At least they did when he was in the White House. But that kind of authority didn't hold much sway when it came time for his presidential portrait.
  At a ceremony Monday to unveil portraits of him and former first lady Michelle Obama, the former president said artist Kehinde Wiley cheerfully ignored almost all of his suggestions.
  "He listened very thoughtfully to what I had to say before doing exactly what he always intended to do," he said. "
  
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• Trump budget would put deficit at $1 trillion

  13-02-2018 02:21 via chron.com
  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion budget plan Monday that envisions steep cuts to America's social safety net but mounting spending on the military, formally retreating from last year's promises to balance the federal budget.
  The president's spending outline for the first time acknowledges that the Republican tax overhaul passed last year would add billions to the deficit and not "pay for itself" as Trump and his Republican allies asserted. If enacted as proposed, thou
  
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• NAACP addressing Houston home ownership inequities as civil rights issue

  13-02-2018 02:14 via chron.com
  The Houston NAACP branch, which celebrates its centennial this year, is working to prepare 100 families to live in their own homes by the end of the year.
  
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• Trump taps another Texan for federal 5th Circuit bench

  13-02-2018 01:32 via chron.com
  The Trump nominee is Andrew Oldham, who is currently Abbott's general counsel, a position he's held for just a month. Before his appointment to the governor's office, he was the state's deputy solicitor general.
  
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• Houston ISD removes 3 more campuses from list of struggling schools facing makeover

  13-02-2018 00:58 via chron.com
  Hilliard Elementary, Cullen Middle and North Forest High schools are no longer looking at major changes designed to stave off a potential state takeover of the district's school board. Ten schools remain under consideration for changes.
  
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