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Baylor College of Medicine on Wednesday was awarded $1.1 million from the federal government to open a new long-COVID clinic in the Houston area.

Baylor already operates a Post COVID Care Clinic at the McNair campus in the Texas Medical Center. The funds will help the medical school expand services to uninsured patients at Harris Health System's Strawberry Clinic, located in East Harris County.

In reaction to US sanctions against State Duma members, Russia blacklisted 398 members of the US House of Representatives. This was reported on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website on Wednesday, April 13.

A new funding project that's a part of the Bipartisan Omnibus Appropriations Bill doled out over $10 million to health care institutions — and a Houston initiative is cashing in on a chunk of that funding.

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso Representative Veronica Escobar sent a letter to President Biden urging him to address Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's commercial vehicle inspection policy at the border.

The letter, which was co-signed by the entire Texas Democratic Congressional Delegation, comes on the heels of Governor Abbott's recent directive to increase inspections of commercial vehicles at land ports of entry.

WASHINGTON, D.C., USA — A bus carrying migrants from Texas arrived in Washington, D.C. this morning and a second bus is on the way, according to Gov. Greg Abbott.

Breonna Randall has never seen the vice president speak. The twenty-somethingcollege senior is sitting in the front row of Cramton Auditorium at Howard University, where she's a month from graduation. In a few minutes, alumna Kamala Harris will approach the lectern in the same auditorium in which she attended freshman orientation 40 years ago, but befitted differently from her collegiate days, in a navy pantsuit and her signature black pearls.

On Wednesday morning, Abbott announced the first bus dropped migrants off between the U.S. Capitol and Union Station. A Spectrum News camera was rolling as migrants arrived.

Busing migrants from Texas to the nation's capital is just one of the measures Abbott put in place in response to the Biden administration ending the Trump-era Title 42, a policy which limits the number of asylum seekers permitted into the country in order to curb the spread of COVID-19. That program is scheduled to end in May.

When the Biden administration ends the public health order known as Title 42 next month, it will resume processing asylum claims at the border. The Trump-era rule allows border officials to send migrants back to their home countries because of the pandemic.