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Local community activists said they would begin bailing defendants out of some of Texas’ largest county jails to protect them from the spread of the new coronavirus.

The Texas Organizing Project announced it would focus on bailing out people with low bonds in Harris County, Dallas County, Bexar County, and Fort Bend County.

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Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the federal government to let Houston use $404 million in aid to help close its ballooning budget gap and reduce the number ofexpected furloughs.

Rules for the CARES Act, part of the $2 trillion stimulus passed by Congress last month, prevent the city from using the dollars where they are most needed: the budget.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott painted a positive picture of the state’s battle against COVID-19 on Tuesday, but said it’s not yet time to fully reopen the economy.

The number of people testing positive for the corona virus is “leveling off” and has remained mostly under 1,000 new cases a day, he said, even as testing has accelerated.

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Governments around the globe are scrambling to figure out what, if anything, they can do to arrest the collapse of oil prices, which fell below zero on Monday.

With stay-at-home orders cutting a third of the global oil demand, the usual methods of small production cuts or filling the nation's oil reserves are unlikely to do much to move markets, raising question about go

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House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Friday morning, March 27, 2020. When members of the House return to Washington on Friday to approve a $2 trillion economic stimulus package in response to the coronavirus, and send it to President Trump, they will enter a Capitol where every facet of life has been altered by a pandemic. (Anna Mo

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