Rachel Ramirez

6 days ago | newschannel6now.com | Rachel Ramirez

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - City View Junior High School held its FFA plant sale, which will fund opportunities for its agriculture students. The plant sale showcases and sells various plants that students have planted and cared for throughout the school year. Kennedy Swan, the agriculture teacher at City View High, said the main goal of the plant sale is to create experiences for the students.

1 week ago | newschannel6now.com | Rachel Ramirez

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - United Supermarkets made a significant contribution to the community by donating over a ton of healthy fruit to the Wichita Falls Area Food Bank. Wichita Falls Area Food Bank CEO David O’Neil emphasized the importance of community support in making donations like this possible. “The expectation is when we get this, we truly think of it as a gift,” O’Neil said. Wichita Falls has one of the highest rates of food insecurity in the country.

2 weeks ago | cnnespanol.cnn.com | Rachel Ramirez

El papa Francisco habla durante el encuentro "Fe y Ciencia: Hacia la COP26", en el Vaticano, el 4 de octubre de 2021. Alessandro Di Meo/Reuters CNN  —  Cuando Jorge Mario Bergoglio fue elegido para dirigir la Iglesia católica en 2013, eligió el nombre papal de Francisco, en honor a la figura del siglo XIII de san Francisco de Asís, conocido como el santo patrono de los ecologistas y defensor de los pobres. Fue una elección acertada.

2 weeks ago | cnn.com | Rachel Ramirez

Pope Francis speaks during the meeting "Faith and Science: Towards COP26" at the Vatican October 4, 2021. Alessandro Di Meo/Reuters CNN  —  When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ecologists and champion of the poor. It was a befitting choice. Pope Francis was the fiercest climate and environment advocate in the church’s history.

Jan 26, 2025 | cnn.com | Rachel Ramirez

Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Employees in federal positions overseeing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives were put on paid leave as officials were ordered to “coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and ‘diversity, equity,...