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Drivers who hit someone in a crosswalk in Texas could now face prison time, thanks to new law named after Fort Bend County woman
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HOUSTON – Not many days after Lisa Torry Smith died in 2017, after family members learned it was not a crime in Texas to drive into someone in a crosswalk, they decided the law needed to change.
About four years later, a new Texas law in her name will go into effect, which makes it a crime, punishable by fines and up to two years in prison, to hit and cause injury to a person in a crosswalk.
President Biden met with survivors of the 1921 attack in Oklahoma, one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in American history. The Biden administration said it would suspend oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were issued in the waning days of the Trump presidency.
Biden Visits Site of Tulsa Massacre a Century Later. âWhile darkness can hide much, it erases nothing.â
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President Biden met with survivors of the 1921 attack in Oklahoma, one of the worst outbreaks of racist violence in American history. The Biden administration said it would suspend oil drilling leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that were issued in the waning days of the Trump presidency.
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Biden Memorializes Victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre
President Biden marked the anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre a century after a white mob destroyed the Black community of Greenwood, torching hundreds of buildings and shooting people in the streets.
Texas Democratic lawmakers on Sunday pulled off a last-ditch walkout in the Texas House of Representatives to block passage of one of the most restrictive voting bills in the US, leaving Republican lawmakers with no choice, but to abandon a midnight deadline and declare the legislative session essentially over.
The revolt is one of the Democrats’ biggest protests to date against Republican efforts nationwide to impose stricter election laws, and they used the spotlight to urge US President Joe Biden to act on voting rights.
However, the victory might be fleeting: Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who had declared new voting laws