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Is Texas’ coronavirus abortion ban over? State tells court it is.
2:57 PM on Apr 22, 2020 CDT — Updated at 7:01 PM on Apr 22, 2020 CDTUpdated at 7:00 p.m. with news from the state’s latest legal filing.AUSTIN -- The state of Texas says its coronavirus abortion ban is over, telling a U.S. District Court that the state’s new order on elective medical procedures now exempts abortions from being postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic.The original gubernatorial executive order that spurred the heated legal battle over whether abortions can be banned during the COVID-19 pandemic expired Tuesday, so clinics throughout Texas began offering abortions again earlier...…2:57 PM on Apr 22, 2020 CDT — Updated at 7:01 PM on Apr 22, 2020 CDTUpdated at 7:00 p.m. with news from the state’s latest legal filing.AUSTIN -- The state of Texas says its coronavirus abortion ban is over, telling a U.S. District Court that the state’s new order on elective medical procedures now exempts abortions from being postponed during the COVID-19 pandemic.The original gubernatorial executive order that spurred the heated legal battle over whether abortions can be banned during the COVID-19 pandemic expired Tuesday, so clinics throughout Texas began offering abortions again earlier...WW…
Millions of U.S. citizens won’t get help from stimulus checks because their spouses or parents are unauthorized immigrants
7:00 PM on Apr 16, 2020 CDTChristina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort.But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help.Millions of U.S. citizens won’t get federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their...…7:00 PM on Apr 16, 2020 CDTChristina Segundo is angry. She’s a U.S. citizen, raising four children in Fort Worth with her husband. Friends around her are receiving $1,200 or more under the government’s colossal stimulus effort.But Segundo gets nothing. She and her immigrant husband file taxes jointly and he uses a federal ITIN, an individual taxpayer identification number. Such couples have been surgically excluded from help.Millions of U.S. citizens won’t get federal stimulus assistance under the $2 trillion pandemic aid package because there are also unauthorized immigrants in their...WW…
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