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Mask mandates are now again illegal in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott recently decreed that government entities cannot require masks, and municipalities can t impose their own mandates without falling afoul of the law. Texas is not alone. Several other states, including Illinois and South Carolina, loosened mask requirements after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fully vaccinated people can resume activities unmasked.
You could almost hear a collective sigh of relief, tinged with some confusion, when the CDC proclamation went viral. Soon enough, parents of young children who can t yet get vaccinated protested this hasty unmasking.
We need to listen to them. But we also need to listen to those in even higher risk populations who can receive vaccines but whose drug regimen reduces the shots effectiveness.
March 08, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: A federal bankruptcy-court judge has ruled that Bishops Richard Malone and Edward Grosz the former Bishop of Buffalo and a retired auxiliary must pay for their own lawyers in suits charging that they neglected sex-abuse complaints. The court ruled that the Buffalo diocese has “no obligation” to pay lawyers for the accused prelates.
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Former CBS News Middle East correspondent and Cairo bureau chief
Mitchell Krauss died Wednesday in Dutchess County, N.Y. of kidney failure.
He was 90.
Krauss spent 25 years at CBS News (1972-1997), though he may be best known to the readers of a certain age as the journalist who was wounded in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. On Oct. 6, 1981, he was covering a military parade and was near enough to the Egyptian leader that he suffered a shrapnel wound to his leg in the grenade and automatic weapons attack that killed Sadat. One of few reporters on the scene, he was able to file an audio report that was broadcast later as part of a CBS Special Report on the assassination. Krauss then managed to get on a flight to Rome with the CBS videotape of the event before the Cairo airport was shut down.