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Fact check: Are Abbott’s ads defending Texas GOP under fire from Democrats over health care true? Last year, Texas passed a bill to protect coverage of pre-existing conditions, the ads brag. But the bill just set up a process for devising a fix for high premiums sick Texans paid – before 2013. Whether Republicans will protect sick people's health coverage -- if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional -- is a top topic in ads and attacks as Democrats seek to capture the Texas House. In pre-pandemic file photo, 2,000 Dallas residents crowded into a health fair at the Fireside Recreation Center last November. (Joseph Stoltz / Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Te) AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow Republicans in the Texas House, under attack from Democrats saying they haven’t done enough on health care, have responded by talking a lot lately about a bill they’ve passed in each of the past two legislative sessions. But did North Richland Hills GOP Sen. Kelly Hancock’s legislation really shie...

  (CNN) First lady Melania Trump   posted a personal essay on the White House website  detailing her experience battling Covid-19, which she tested positive for approximately two weeks ago. The first lady also revealed hat her son, Barron Trump, 14, who the White House publicly confirmed at the time had tested negative, eventually tested positive for the virus, a diagnosis the White House did not share. She has now tested negative for the virus, as has her husband, President Donald Trump, according to his doctors. "Naturally, my mind went immediately to our son," she wrote. Barron Trump initially tested negative after she and the President contracted Covid. But the teenager was tested again and turned up positive. Trump says her son had "no symptoms," and has now tested negative. The President told reporters on Wednesday that Barron is doing "fine" when asked how his son was doing in the wake of Melania Trump's essay. As for her symptoms, the first lad...