Sun, Jan 17 2021

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday honoring a leader of the American civil rights movement, some Texas employees…

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For a second time, a surge in COVID-19 cases has pushed Texas hospitals beyond their base capacity, thwarted the state's plan to reopen businesses and spurred a wave of deaths that health experts say was avoidable. Instead of effectively mitigating…

AUSTIN — Campaign contributions to embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton all but dried up last fall after senior staff accused the Republican of abusing his office to help a friend and political donor. But Paxton's fortunes reversed in…

Reuters – Rajendra Jadhav, Jatindra Dash – Jan 17, 2:00 AM

SATARA/BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) - India's COVID-19 vaccination drive hit a bump on the first day due to glitches in an app called Co-Win that is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in the immunisation…