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Leslie Rangel

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Senior Editor of Investigations @TheBarbedWireTX | Emmy Nominated | Emotional Health Coach | Author | Ex: @fox7austin @KWKTFOX44 @KXAN_News @kfor @KFDM
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A disabled child’s mom reported him missing. He was in federal custody for 48 days.

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By Leslie Rangel
| The 19th News Verified
Published America/Chicago This article was published in partnership with The Barbed Wire. Maria Garcia couldn’t bear to attend the nightly meals near Triangle Lake, where for several weeks, the smell of pinto beans, turkey necks, and other soul food staples filled the air outside a federal children’s detention facility in southeast Houston. The Southern home-cooked meals had become a supportive ritual, one that Garcia appreciated but was too difficult for her to take part in.
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We’re Claiming Arden Cho of ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ as a New Texas Icon

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By Leslie Rangel
| The Barbed Wire
If you haven’t seen “K-Pop Demon Hunters” by now, it may be time. The movie, first released on Aug. 26, is now the most watched movie ever on Netflix with more than 325 million views globally and streamed for more than 500 million hours (we did the math and that equals to more than 61,000 years). Everyone, we mean everyone, is talking about KDH from Bad Bunny on SNL to Jimmy Fallon to former Dallas Cowboy’s defensive end Marcellus Wiley.
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We’re Claiming Arden Cho of ‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ as a New Texas Icon

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By Leslie Rangel
| Flipboard
How Is ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Still Netflix’s #1 Movie, 111 Days Later? We have never seen anything like this in Netflix history before, and I’m not sure we’ve seen anything like this in the nearly 20-year history of movie streaming. I routinely keep an eye on most streaming charts to see what’s popular and what’s fallen off, particularly on Netflix, the largest service …
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