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This story was originally published by Popular Information, an independent news outlet to which you can subscribe here. Lawmakers in Texas are seeking to impose harsh criminal penalties on school ...

Symbols are all around us in everyday life – from the green person that lights up to tell us it is safe to cross the road, to clicking on the ‘thumbs up’ icon to show that we ‘like ...