What is the Houston Texans’ schedule for 2023, where do they rank in terms of strength of schedule, and what record could they be looking at?
The Houston Texans are looking ahead to what they hope is a successful future after securing their identities on both sides of the ball. Head coach DeMeco Ryans will aim to guide the team through the 2023 schedule as they continue to reshape an organizational culture in need of a revamp. We now know what the Texans’ 2023 schedule looks like, but how will they fare this season?
Houston Texans Schedule
Week 1: at Ravens CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Sept. 10)
Week 2: vs. Colts FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Sept. 17)
Week 3: at Jaguars FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Sept. 24)
Week 4: vs. Steelers CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Oct. 1)
Week 5: at Falcons FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Oct. 8)
Week 6: vs. Saints FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Oct. 15)
Week 7: BYE
Week 8: at Panthers FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Oct. 29)
Week 9: vs. Buccaneers CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Nov. 5)
Week 10: at Bengals CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Nov. 12)
Week 11: vs. Cardinals CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Nov. 19)
Week 12: vs. Jaguars CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Nov. 26)
Week 13: vs. Broncos CBS | 4:05 p.m. (Sunday, Dec. 3)
Week 14: at Jets CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Dec. 10)
Week 15: at Titans CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Dec. 17)
Week 16: vs. Browns CBS | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Dec. 24)
Week 17: vs. Titans FOX | 1 p.m. (Sunday, Dec. 31)
The WHO Nursing and Midwifery Global Community of Practice would like to invite you join us for a Webinar on International Nurses Day. The aim of the webinar is to recognize International Nurses Day by celebrating and thanking nurses around the world. It will highlight the WHO 25x25x25 campaign, using its mission to save lives as an opportunity for hope and a mechanism to build health security though high-quality education and training.
6 Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery officers (GCNMO) representing all WHO regions will be invited to present their country context of emergency care nursing and midwifery, and discuss their strategy to engage and support the WHO 25x25x25 emergency care campaign. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will pay tribute to the vital work of nurses around the world and thank them for their contribution to UHC. Chief Nursing Officer, Dr Amelia Latu Afuhaamango Tuipulotu will talk about the importance of high-quality emergency care training and provide an update on the 25×25 x25 campaign. She will introduce 6 Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers, representing each WHO Region, providing each with the opportunity to describe their strategy to strengthen nursing and midwifery competency in emergency care.
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McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida found in a case reminiscent of the famous hot coffee lawsuit of the 1990s.
A second jury will determine how much McDonald’s USA and its franchise owner, Upchurch Foods, will pay the child and her mother, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.
Thursday’s decision was split, with jurors finding the franchise holder liable for negligence and failure to warn customers about the risk of hot food, and McDonald’s USA liable for failing to provide instructions for safe handling of the food. McDonald’s USA was not found to be negligent, and the jury dismissed the argument that the product was defective.
“Our sympathies go out to this family for what occurred in this unfortunate incident, as we hold customer safety as one of our highest priorities,” McDonald’s owner-operator Brent Upchurch said in a statement. “We are deeply disappointed with today’s verdict because the facts show that our restaurant in Tamarac, Florida did indeed follow those protocols when cooking and serving this Happy Meal.”
Jurors heard two days of testimony and arguments about the 2019 episode that left the 4-year-old girl with a burned upper thigh.
Philana Holmes testified that she bought Happy Meals for her son and then-4-year-old daughter at a drive-thru window at a McDonald’s in Tamarac, near Fort Lauderdale, the SunSentinel reported. She handed the food to her children, who were in the back seat.
After she drove away, her daughter started screaming. The mother testified she didn’t know what was wrong until she pulled over to help the girl, Olivia Caraballo, who is now 7, the newspaper reported. She saw the burn on the girl’s leg and took photos on her iPhone, which included audio clips of the child’s screams.
The sound of the girl’s screams was played in court. The child, who is autistic, did not testify, the newspaper reported.
Lawyers for McDonald’s noted that the food had to be hot to avoid salmonella poisoning and that the nuggets were not meant to be pressed between a seat belt and human flesh for more than two minutes.
The girl’s parents sued, saying that McDonald’s and the franchise owner failed to adequately train employees, failed to warn customers about the “dangerous” temperature of the food, and for cooking the food to a much higher temperature than necessary.
While both sides agreed the nugget caused the burns, the family’s lawyers argued the temperature was above 200 degrees (93 Celsius), while the defense said it was no more than 160 degrees (71 Celsius).
The case is likely to stoke memories of the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit of the 1990s, which became an urban legend of sorts about seemingly frivolous lawsuits, even though a jury and judge had found it anything but.
A New Mexico jury awarded Stella Liebeck, 81, $2.7 million in punitive damages after she was scalded in 1992 by hot coffee from McDonald’s that spilled onto her lap, burning her legs, groin and buttocks, as she tried to steady the cup with her legs while prying the lid off to add cream outside a drive-thru.
She suffered third-degree burns and spent more than a week in the hospital.
She had initially asked McDonald’s for $20,000 to cover hospital expenses, but the company went to trial. A judge later reduced the $2.7 million award to $480,000, which he said was appropriate for the “willful, wanton, reckless” and “callous” behavior by McDonald’s.
A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top lawmakers that had been scheduled for Friday has been postponed, and the leaders agreed to meet early next week, a White House spokesperson said on Thursday.
Aides from both sides have started to discuss ways to limit federal spending, as talks on raising the government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to avoid a catastrophic default creep forward, people familiar with the discussions said.
“Staff will continue working and all the principals agreed to meet early next week,” the spokesperson said.
The aides to Biden, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries and met Wednesday and Thursday to discuss raising the debt ceiling, the White House said earlier.
McCarthy told reporters at the Capitol that the delay was not a sign of trouble in the talks but that he believed the staff negotiators who had been meeting this week needed to continue to talk before the principals met again.
“I don’t think there’s enough progress for the leaders to get back together,” he said. He also said one of the Congress members wasn’t able to make the Friday meeting.
White House officials acknowledge that they must accept some spending cuts or strict caps on future spending if they are to strike a deal, two sources said, while insisting they must preserve Biden’s signature climate legislation that passed along party lines last year.
The House Republican bill to suspend the borrowing limit passed in April would cut government spending to 2022 levels, cap its future growth below inflation and repeal incentives for renewable energy, electric vehicles and other climate-friendly technology passed in the Biden legislation.
The two sides are also debating how long to push out the next potential debt ceiling showdown, sources said. Biden and Democrats would prefer a two-year window, pushing any legislative action beyond the 2024 presidential election, but they may have to accept larger spending cuts or stricter caps to get more time, the sources said.
“Spending levels is the key,” Republican Representative Daniel Webster said before the talks were rescheduled. “Spending cuts is a place where we’re stuck. Not with all of them, but with a list of them. Not necessarily in any order, just that we want some.”
Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request relies on tax increases to reduce deficits while proposing to increase discretionary spending by 5 percent next year. That represents a more than $200 billion difference with House Republicans, however, who want to cut agency budgets on average by 8 percent while increasing defense and veterans spending — meaning other programs would face steeper cuts.
The fact that spending cuts and caps are under discussion could be a sign of progress in talks where Democrats have long pushed for an unconditional lifting of the debt ceiling, while Republicans have demanded a slew of policy changes in addition to sharp spending cuts.
The White House portrayed the postponement as a positive development, with meetings progressing.
The U.S. federal government could run out of money to pay its bills as soon as June 1, the Treasury said, unless the debt ceiling is raised. Biden is set to leave the country next week to attend the G7 meeting in Japan, and there are just a few days left when he and House and Senate leadership will be in town before that deadline.
The Houston ISD board of trustees held its last scheduled meeting Thursday night before the state takes over the largest school district in Texas.
It was an emotional sign off from board members.
“I’m not going away. I will be watching, asking for transparency, and sharing information with the public,” said Trustee Judith Cruz.
Many of the board members promised not to turn their backs on the district when they are forced to turn their seats over to the state.
“I will continue to be your elected official, even after the fake board continues with their hostile takeover. There is no way that one man should be able to overturn the votes of one-million people,” said Trustee Patricia K. Allen.
Before the passionate last words, it was business as usual. Trustees approved a few proposals, including expanding access to high quality pre-kindergarten care within the district. They also voted against several items including an amendment for the May budget. Some on the board voiced their concern over what they call inequities in the district’s spending.
“There are campuses that continue to receive a one-time fund, year, after year, after year, and we have campuses that are having their funding reduced because there is no funding, allegedly,” said Trustee Myrna Guidry.
Superintendent Millard House II took the opportunity to express his gratitude to students, teachers, and the community for their support and teamwork during his time in the district.
“It’s been an honor and a privilege to serve as your superintendent, and I’m proud of all that we have accomplished together,” said House.
The TEA is expected to appoint HISD’s new Board of Managers on or after June 1st.
Experts say new restrictions at US-Mexico border will continue to impede access to asylum as contentious policy expires.
A contentious United States policy that has allowed authorities to turn away most asylum seekers at the border with Mexico has officially ended, as President Joe Biden’s administration readies for an expected influx of arrivals.
The public health order known as Title 42, which formally expired at 11:59pm on Thursday (03:59 GMT on Friday), had been used to turn asylum seekers away more than 2.8 million times since it was first invoked in March 2020.
At the time, then-President Donald Trump argued Title 42 was necessary to curb the spread of COVID-19, but rights groups immediately criticised the measure, saying the pandemic was merely a pretext to crack down on immigration.
The policy’s expiration coincided with the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency on May 11, and the Biden administration has sent additional troops and resources to the US-Mexico border in advance of its end.
Washington also finalised a new rule this week that will make most refugees and asylum seekers arriving at the country’s southern border with Mexico ineligible to seek asylum in the US. The rule will take effect when Title 42 expires.
People seeking to immigrate have rushed across the border in the days and hours before the policy was set to end, fearing that the new policy would make it far more difficult to gain entry into the US.
In the Mexican border town of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, people arrived steadily on Wednesday, stripping down before descending a steep bank clutching plastic bags filled with clothes. They slowly waded into the river, one man holding a baby in an open suitcase on his head.
On the US side, they put on dry clothing and picked their way through concertina wire. Many surrendered to authorities, hoping to be released to stay legally while pursuing their cases in backlogged immigration courts, a process which can take years.
At the border wall in San Ysidro, California, across from Tijuana, Mexico, hundreds of people crossed on Wednesday and were waiting to be processed by US authorities. The group included families with young children and people from Colombia, Brazil, Afghanistan and Turkey.
Members of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker charity, handed out silver, reflective blankets to keep people warm in the freezing temperatures at night. Some asylum seekers started campfires.
Angelica, an Indigenous woman from Colombia who did not want her last name used for fear of reprisals, said she spent two nights sleeping on the ground in hopes of claiming asylum in the US.
She told Al Jazeera that she took several flights from Colombia to Mexico, and when she reached Tijuana, she climbed over the border wall. She said she was seeking asylum because criminals in Colombia have threatened her but did not know what would happen next at the border.
“I will have to wait and see what happens,” Angelica said in a WhatsApp message on Thursday from the border. “I only know that I have a mission and a vision. I hope I can [ask for asylum] soon.”
US defends policies
While rights groups had called for Title 42 to be rescinded, they also condemned the Biden administration for increasingly leaning on policies that will also deny refuge to people fleeing desperate circumstances.
Many of the people seeking asylum at the US’s southern border are fleeing widespread violence, political instability and socioeconomic crises in their home countries in Central and South America, as well as in countries such as China, Turkey, Russia and elsewhere.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, said the US policy change was unlikely to dissuade people from trying to leave the Caribbean nation amid widespread gang violence and hunger.
“On Wednesday, we were able to go to a government office where people were waiting for their passports, hundreds and hundreds of them,” Bo said. “And they were telling us that they do not know what Title 42 is, that they’re just trying to leave the country in order to feel safe.
“And that’s what you hear among the population here: They’re desperate to leave and to feel safe once again.”
The Biden administration has defended its policies, however, stressing this week that its approach to immigration is centred on “enforcement, deterrence and diplomacy”.
“Right now, we believe we have a robust plan, a multi-agency plan, to do this in a humane way,” White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters in response to questions on Tuesday about what the US was doing at the border to prepare for the end of Title 42.
Washington has urged prospective immigrants to take “legal pathways” to get to the country, including applying through an app known as CBP One and using new programmes that allow a limited number of asylum seekers that meet certain criteria to enter the US.
“President Biden has led the largest expansion of lawful pathways in decades,” Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said at a White House briefing on Thursday.
However, Mayorkas said the new asylum rule would mean tougher consequences for migrants and refugees crossing irregularly, who could be deported and barred from the US for five years if they do not qualify for protection.
“The transition to Title 8 processing will be swift and immediate,” he said of the new policy, stressing that anyone who is removed will be “subject to at least a five-year ban on re-entry into the United States and can face criminal prosecution if they attempt to cross again”.
Mayorkas also announced during a news conference on Wednesday that the Biden administration was launching a “digital advertising campaign in Central and South America to counter the lies of the smugglers” who bring people to the border.
“Smugglers have been long hard at work spreading false information that the border will be open. They are lying,” he said on Thursday. “To people who are thinking of making the journey to our southern border, know this: Smugglers care only about profits, not people. Do not risk your life and your life’s savings only to be removed from the United States if and when you arrive here.”
Thousands apprehended
The Biden administration has been under political pressure to respond to increased arrivals at the border, as Republican legislators blamed the Democratic president for the influx since he took office in January 2021.
Already, daily apprehensions at the US-Mexico border surpassed 10,000 on Monday and Tuesday, according to US officials, and American border cities have struggled to shelter new arrivals.
On Wednesday morning, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had more than 28,000 people in custody, marking what appeared to be a record, a US official said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal operations. He also noted that those numbers far exceeded the agency’s stated capacity.
In Texas this week, Republican Governor Greg Abbott — a staunch critic of Biden’s immigration policies — said he was deploying a special border force to target “hot spots” along the border in anticipation of the end of Title 42.
But on Thursday, Mayorkas blamed any chaos at the border on the failure of leaders in the US Congress to fix “a fundamentally broken immigration system”.
“This is an ongoing challenge that quite frankly has vexed this country for decades, because Congress has been unable to pass immigration reform that everyone agrees and understands is desperately needed,” the Homeland Security secretary said.
“We are working with an immigration system that was last reformed in the 1990s. Migration has changed dramatically since then, and we need our laws updated.”
Oscar Leeser, mayor of El Paso, which is routinely one of the busiest crossings on the border, said the Texas city was preparing for an influx of arrivals. Several cities along the border, including El Paso, have already issued emergency declarations for their area.
“But we don’t know what’s coming in the next day. We don’t know what’s coming in the next 10 days,” Leeser said. “We know that they’ll continue to come, and we’ll continue to make sure that we help them.”
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced Thursday morning that Tom Brady will be honored at the team’s 2023 home opener, which will come against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Sept. 10.
“I invited him back to be with us at the opening game and let the fans in New England thank him … it will be the beginning of many celebrations to honor Tom Brady,” Kraft said on NFL Network.
Kickoff for the game is set for 4:25 p.m. ET.
Kraft added of Brady, who announced his retirement after 23 seasons: “He’s very excited to come back and see our fans. It will be a great, great celebration.”
Brady spent his first 20 seasons in New England (2000-2019), winning six Super Bowls, before concluding his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2020-2022) and winning a seventh title. He is the only player to win more than five Super Bowls in his career, and he has been named Super Bowl MVP five times.
Brady said he was retiring “for good” from football on Feb. 1, announcing his decision on social media, and saying he “wouldn’t change a thing” about his career. He also announced he was retiring on Feb. 1, 2022, before changing his mind 40 days later and returning to play this past season with the Buccaneers.
Brady ended his career as the NFL’s leader in career passing yards (89,214) and touchdown passes (649). The three-time league MVP passed for 4,694 yards — third most in the NFL — and 25 touchdowns this past season. He also holds NFL records for regular-season wins (251), Super Bowl appearances (10), playoff games (48) and wins (35), as well as playoff yards (13,400) and TDs (88).
In May 2022, Brady agreed to join Fox Sports as its lead analyst when his playing career was over, but in February he said he won’t begin his work as a sports broadcaster until the fall of 2024.
The 58th Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards took place Thursday with co-hosts Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks live from the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
The ACMs celebrate country music’s biggest stars and emerging talent.
Lainey Wilson was the night’s standout artist with three wins, including album of the year, and Chris Stapleton won the coveted entertainer of the year award.
Miranda Lambert, Kane Brown, Luke Combs, Keith Urban and Jelly Roll were among the evening’s many performers, with co-host and 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Parton closing out the show with a performance of “World on Fire,” a new track off her highly-anticipated rock album, “Rockstar.”
Ed Sheeran also made a surprise appearance to perform his new song “Life Goes On” in a duet with Luke Combs.
The ACM’s are streamed live on Prime Video and will be rebroadcast on Friday for free on Amazon Freevee starting at 8 p.m. ET.
See below for a full list of nominees with the winners indicated in bold.
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What is the Houston Texans’ schedule for 2023, where do they rank in terms of strength of schedule, and what record could they be looking at?
McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida found in a case reminiscent of the famous hot coffee lawsuit of the 1990s.
A debt limit meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and top lawmakers that had been scheduled for Friday has been postponed, and the leaders agreed to meet early next week, a White House spokesperson said on Thursday.
The Houston ISD board of trustees held its last scheduled meeting Thursday night before the state takes over the largest school district in Texas.
Experts say new restrictions at US-Mexico border will continue to impede access to asylum as contentious policy expires.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced Thursday morning that Tom Brady will be honored at the team’s 2023 home opener, which will come against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Sept. 10.
The 58th Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards took place Thursday with co-hosts Dolly Parton and Garth Brooks live from the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
