A federal appeals court dealt opponents of Texas’ strict abortion law another defeat Monday by steering the case next to the state’s Republican-majority Supreme Court, raising concerns that the near-total ban on abortions will remain intact for the foreseeable future. The Texas law that bans abortion once cardiac activity is detected — usually around six weeks, before some women know they are pregnant — has been in effect since September. In December, the U.S. Supreme Court kept the law in place and allowed only a narrow challenge against the restrictions to proceed. Abortion providers wanted their lawsuit sent back to a federal court…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
Dallas libraries and recreation centers will soon provide free menstrual products. Tampons and pads will be stocked in women’s bathrooms and available upon request through a six-month pilot program called Period Access Dallas that could start sometime in February. The city is planning to give out $200,000 worth of products bought with federal American Rescue Plan Act money at about two dozen locations, mostly in southern Dallas. The program was developed to address lack of access to the hygiene products, particularly in underserved areas, city officials say. It’s an issue across the country. Some states, such as New York, Illinois…
A Dallas homeless shelter is working with federal investigators after a British national suspected of holding four people hostage inside a Colleyville synagogue was dropped off at the facility by someone he appeared to have a relationship with, the shelter’s CEO told. Wayne Walker, the CEO and pastor at OurCalling, said Monday that the South Dallas shelter turned over photos and video to the FBI after learning that 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram, of Blackburn, England, stayed at their facility on Jan. 2. Walker said Akram was dropped off at the facility about 10 p.m. by another person. The two appeared…
Chapter 1: The Unwitting Suspect Roughly 24 hours before Larry Driskill confessed to a murder he claimed he couldn’t remember, a stranger in sharply creased cowboy clothes approached him at the barn where he was working. The metal star above the man’s left shirt pocket indicated he was a Texas Ranger. “Am I in trouble or what?” Driskill asked. “No, we think you might be able to help us,” Ranger James Holland replied, inviting Driskill to chat at the sheriff’s office in Parker County, Texas. As they cruised the rural back roads west of Fort Worth on that afternoon in…
The investigation into the 11-hour standoff at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville on Saturday has continued to unearth new details about what happened before, and during, the attack on the synagogue. The FBI has said that Malik Faisal Akram appears to be the lone suspect, though the investigation — which has a global reach — remains ongoing. Here’s what we know about the probe into Akram and the weekend standoff. FBI says standoff was terrorism-related The FBI said in a written statement late Sunday that the Colleyville standoff was being investigated as a terrorism-related matter in which the Jewish community was targeted.…
Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is introducing a new feature to improve user security and protect accounts from unauthorized access. According to WABetaInfo, this two-step verification feature through an additional code (called PIN) which will be required when users log into WhatsApp after inserting the 6-digit registration code. The feature also allows WhatsApp users to enter their email addresses in order to restore their WhatsApp accounts in case they forget the PIN. If users are unable to log into their WhatsApp accounts because they don’t remember their PIN, the meta-owned app users can reset it immediately by requesting a reset link.…
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps around the globe. The Meta-owned app offers something different from most messaging apps in that you use a phone number, meaning that anyone can contact you whenever they want, wherever you are, and you don’t need to be online to contact them. Although, you can have more than one WhatsApp accounts, like one for personal and one for business, you cannot open more than one account at a time. You are required to log out of one before you can open the other. It is a bit of a hassle having…
MADRID: The Copa del Rey match suspended after an object was thrown from the stands resumed on Sunday behind closed doors and without the Sevilla player hit in the head in what the club called “an appalling attack”. Sevilla midfielder Joan Jordan was doing well but did not play in their 2-1 loss to Real Betis in a match that restarted in the 40th minute with the score tied at 1-1. Betis reached the quarter-finals with the victory at home. Jordan had been taken to a hospital after being hit by a piece of PVC hurled from the stands while…
LONDON: Liverpool found the goal-scoring alternatives needed in the absence of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane as their stand-ins stepped up in a 3-0 win over Brentford at Anfield to climb up to second in the Premier League on Sunday. Midfielder Fabinho proved an unlikely solution with his third goal in eight days with the opener just before halftime when a corner from Trent Alexander-Arnold bounced to the back post and was nodded home by the Brazilian. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s diving header in the 69th and substitute Takumi Minamino’s close-range finish wrapped up the win. A 0-0 draw against 10-man Arsenal…
KANDY: Dinesh Chandimal and Charith Asalanka smashed half-centuries to guide Sri Lanka to a comfortable five-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first one-day international on Sunday. Chasing 297 for victory, Sri Lanka rode on a 129-run stand between man-of-the-match Chandimal (75) and Asalanka (71) to achieve the target with nine balls to spare and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series in Kandy. Opener Pathum Nissanka made 75 to set up the chase on a batting-friendly wicket. Sean Williams scored 100 in Zimbabwe’s 296 for nine in 50 overs. “Our batsmen showed the class and maturity during the chase,”…
