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Plaintiffs challenge Texas voter ID law, claim the law is biased

By Manny Fernandez Sep. 23, 2014

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A law requiring Texas voters to show government-issued identification before casting a ballot is the latest example of the state’s long history of discrimination against minorities and puts unjustified burdens on the right to vote for more than half a million Texans, lawyers challenging the law told a federal judge here on Monday.

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Justice Department to investigate Ferguson police practices

By Matt Apuzzo and Manny Fernandez Sep. 5, 2014

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will open a broad civil rights investigation into police practices in Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager last month and set off days of racially charged unrest, the city’s police chief and other officials said Wednesday.

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Abortion law pushes Texas clinics to close doors

By Manny Fernandez Mar. 7, 2014

McALLEN, Texas — Shortly before a candlelight vigil on the sidewalk outside, employees of the last abortion clinic in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas shut the doors Thursday evening, making legal abortion unavailable in the poorest part of the state in the wake of tough new restrictions passed last year by the Texas Legislature.

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Federal judge strikes down Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage

By Manny Fernandez Feb. 28, 2014

HOUSTON — A federal judge in Texas struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday, ruling that the laws restricting marriage to a man and a woman violated the U

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Davis is expected to run for Texas governor

By Manny Fernandez Sep. 27, 2013

HOUSTON — Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator whose filibuster in June against an abortion bill backed by the state’s powerful Republicans catapulted her to national political prominence, has told supporters and potential donors that she plans to announce next week that she will run for governor, according to Democrats in Texas and Washington.

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Ruins searched for firefighters after blast

By Manny Fernandez and John Schwartz Apr. 19, 2013

WEST, Texas — Rescue workers searched the rubble of a fertilizer plant Thursday, looking for missing firefighters and survivors of a huge explosion that tore through this small central Texas town Wednesday night, killing as many as 15 people and injuring more than 160 others, laying waste to buildings

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