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TexasTowelie's JournalLavrov denigrates West's stance towards Africa on Ethiopia visit - Al Jazeera
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow supports Ethiopia’s efforts to stabilize its internal political situation in remarks that sought to draw a contrast with what he presented as meddling by the West.
Lavrov was in Addis Ababa on Wednesday wrapping up a four-nation African tour aimed at drumming up support for Moscow at a time of confrontation with Western powers over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Most African nations, mindful of economic interests and historical ties with both Russia and the West, have declined to take sides over Ukraine.
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports.
Spectrum ordered to pay $7 billion in punitive damages after employee killed Irving woman
A Dallas County jury on Tuesday ordered Charter Communications to pay $7 billion in punitive damages to the family of an 83-year-old woman who was killed by a technician in her Irving home the day after he helped her with her phone service.
The payment is in addition to $375 million a jury ordered the company to pay in compensatory damages last month. Charter, which also operates as Spectrum, is responsible for 90% of the compensatory payment.
Chris Hamilton, an attorney for the victim’s family, said her relatives were “very grateful” for the verdict.
“It’s a bittersweet day, because they lost their mom in a horrifying, preventable tragedy they’re never going to recover from,” he said. “There is certainly some relief for the family that the public has the ability to know about this danger that their mother didn’t have the opportunity to know about.”
The company said that the technician was solely responsible for the death and that it plans to appeal the verdict.
Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2022/07/26/spectrum-ordered-to-pay-7-billion-in-punitive-damages-after-employee-killed-irving-woman/
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Hear Hawley's reaction to Jan. 6 panel's video of him fleeing Capitol - CNN
In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defends his actions on the day of the January 6 insurrection.
Sen. Coons: I Have Confidence In Attorney General Garland - Morning Joe - MSNBC
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., discusses AG Merrick Garland's recent interview about the investigation into former President Trump as well as the war in Ukraine and the possibility of House Speaker Pelosi traveling to Taiwan.
Funding gap: More money needed for I-69 completion
The Rio Grande Valley is only about $340 million away from no longer being the largest metropolitan area in the United States not connected to the rest of the country by interstate.
The massive project to convert U.S. 77 and U.S. 281 to interstate-quality I-69 from the Valley to points north began several years ago. Driscoll, in Nueces County, has already been bypassed as part of the project, and right-of-way is being acquired to do likewise at Riviera in Kleberg County. Eventually passenger vehicles and commercial traffic traveling to or from the Valley will no longer encounter stop lights.
The only thing standing in the way of completing construction of the U.S. 77/I-69E portion all the way to I-37 near Corpus Christi is that three Kenedy County segments, involving six separate construction projects, have not been included in the Texas Department of Transportation’s 10-year Unified Transportation Plan (UTP).
So says Pete Sepulveda Jr., Cameron County administrator and director of the Cameron County Regional Mobility Authority.
“The projects have been environmentally cleared and the right-of-way acquired,” he said. “But unless they’re included in the plan TxDOT can’t do any work on them.”
Read more: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2022/07/25/funding-gap-more-money-needed-for-i-69-completion/
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