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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
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Houston doctor suspended for vaccine misinformation files $25 million defamation lawsuit against Methodist Hospital

Lucio Vasquez

Posted on July 25, 2022 · The lawsuit accuses Methodist Hospital and Methodist CEO Marc Boom of making "false and defamatory" statements about Dr. Mary Bowden, an ear, nose, and throat doctor in River Oaks.

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Home testing makes predicting new COVID waves in Texas challenging

Julián Aguilar, The Texas Newsroom

Posted on July 15, 2022 · New cases of COVID-19 in Texas are increasing again. But predicting how long this wave of infections will continue — and how severe it could be — will not be easy this time around.

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COVID case numbers on the rise, and images from the James Webb Space Telescope (July 11, 2022)

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Posted on July 11, 2022 · On Monday's show: The county's COVID positivity rate nears 30 percent, NASA releases the first images from the new James Webb Space Telescope, and veterinarian Dr. Lori Teller answers your pet care questions.

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Texas students in grades 3-8 make significant gains in STAAR tests, while lower math scores linger

Becky Fogel, The Texas Newsroom

Posted on July 5, 2022 · While Texas students have not regained all the ground they lost in math during the pandemic, scores across all grades were higher in 2022 than they were in 2021. Reading proficiency, on the other hand, appears to have fully recovered.

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U.S. Death Toll Climbs To 6 As Viral Crisis Eases In China

Kim Tong-Hyung, AP / Matt Sedensky, Associated Press

Posted on March 2, 2020 · The death toll from the coronavirus in the U.S. has climbed to six, and the disease has spread to ever more countries and world capitals, even as new cases in China have dropped to their lowest level in six weeks.

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Texas Bomber’s Change In Tactics Could Hint At Future Plans

Matt Sedensky, Associated Press

Posted on March 20, 2018 · A bomb that went off early Tuesday at a package shipping facility was the fifth such explosion this month in a widening circle from Austin

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This Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, photo shows Stanley Unc, who lives in a tent camp beneath an overpass for Interstate 59, in Houston. He said others can’t grasp what their lives are like each day, much less on a day when a Category 4 hurricane hits.

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Houston’s Homeless Shrug Off Riding Out Harvey On Streets

Matt Sedensky, Associated Press

Posted on September 3, 2017 · To the masses, it was a vicious blast of nature's cruelty, a bruising brawl to survive, a forced trip to an uncertain future. To the few, it was just another miserable day.

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