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As Texas utility operators and politicians squabbled over responsibility for "load shedding" and "rolling blackouts" Tuesday, many residents scrambled simply to stay warm and alive.

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Utility companies that deliver electricity to Texans are telling customers that power outages could last well into Tuesday

A court filing documents what Paxton’s whistleblowers believe led to an alleged “bizarre, obsessive use of power.”

Combined, the three sites are expected to administer more than 10,000 shots per day, with doses supplied by FEMA.

Judge Drew Tipton originally issued a 14-day suspension of Biden’s moratorium on Jan. 26. The pause in deportations was part of Biden’s attempted day one overhaul of several of former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Wright, a Republican from Arlington, had been living with cancer for years. He was hospitalized for COVID-19 about two weeks ago.

Home health workers, most of whom are women of color, could start losing their jobs if they aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19. Many are more afraid of the vaccine than the virus, but health experts and public officials widely agree that the vaccine is safe.

Jackie Tidwell, a 6th-generation Texan living in Seattle, made it her mission to get her 90-year-old grandfather in Corpus Christi vaccinated for COVID-19 and hopes others “have persistent grandkids like me.” Listen, in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.

With assignments out, legislation that has been filed can begin getting referred to committees for potential hearings. The committees overseeing public education, budget writing and redistricting are among those with new chairs.

At one point in January, half of the city’s hospital patients were admitted because of COVID-19 — the highest percentage in the nation. That's caused intense debate about what the city can, and should, do next.