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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) announced Monday they have launched a new data-sharing agreement that will allow the two states to exchange real-time transportation information to improve traffic operations, trav...
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The strawberry moon, which will be visible in the sky this week, will mark the first full moon of the summer.
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For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and air.If their injuries aren't too severe, victims can survive for a week or more, assuming the weather isn't too hot or cold, experts say.In Venezuela, resc...
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Skywatchers will have a chance to see June’s full moon Monday night, commonly known as the Strawberry Moon. Despite its name, the Moon won’t actually appear pink or red. Instead, the name comes from the time of year when wild strawberries traditionally ripened and were ready for ...
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Federal law enforcement authorities are preparing for one of Washington, D.C.'s, largest and most complex security operations as the nation’s capital gears up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s freedom.With rising political violence, including recent incidents nea...
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The Pride Houston 365 parade was postponed back in early June due to inclement weather.
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Davis died June 22 in his Manhattan apartment at the age of 94, a few weeks after he had been hospitalized for an upper respiratory issue.
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The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed more than $3.5 million in penalties against three companies after federal investigators found they failed to protect workers during cleanup efforts following a massive sulfuric acid spill at an industrial facility in Channelview.The depar...
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Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in the latest round of charges in the government’s widening gambling investigation, authorities said Monday.When he was playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024, Beasley agreed to tailor his performance based on prop...
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The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception, the Federal Reserve.The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she...
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Deputies said they found a car crashed into a ditch while responding to the shooting, which left a man dead and another injured.
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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed bal...
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive a $300 million defamation lawsuit filed against CNN over its coverage of a prominent attorney's remarks made while defending President Donald Trump during his 2020 impeachment.The majority declined to take up the case in a brief, unexpla...
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election.The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect temporarily before, including Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requi...
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.The high court declined to take up the case in a brief...
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President Trump said Monday on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though Iranian officials said no such meeting was scheduled....
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A construction worker was hit and killed by a co-worker along the Gulf Freeway, Houston police said.
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This was men’s fashion season. The women were everywhere.They walked the coed Paris runways at Amiri and Ami. At Vetements, women modeled many of the “menswear” looks, and Sharon Stone closed the show in thigh-high boots.Inside fashion, none of this was eyebrow-raising.The gender...
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President Donald Trump says Iran requested a meeting that would happen Tuesday in Qatar, but Tehran says nothing’s scheduled. Trump’s social media post Monday comes as he tries to preserve an increasingly fragile interim deal as hostilities mount in the Strait of Hormuz. And with...
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Russian missiles and drones killed at least 11 civilians and injured 40 others in Ukraine on Monday in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as “horrific attacks.”Since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted...
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Long before it became a symbol of recovery, the Hunt Store was the center of daily life in Hunt.“It was the one-stop shop,” said co-owner Vikki Dunn. “It had fuel, banking, groceries, food. People would leave packages here. Everybody came through the Hunt Store.”For nearly 80 yea...
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With the window for finding survivors shrinking fast, Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week’s devastating back-to-back earthquakes, and a 4.6 magnitude aftershock rumbled through the disaster zone in the northern state of La Guaira.Five da...
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Alex Murdaugh is back in court on Monday for the first time since the South Carolina Supreme Court overturned his double murder conviction
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Five people were killed in a shooting on Monday at a youth welfare facility in the northern German town of Stade, police said. Two people were arrested, including the suspected shooter.Other people were wounded, police said, but they did not give a figure. Police said the shootin...
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Kara Swisher is everywhere.She's filling in for Joy Behar on ABC's “The View.” Appearing alongside Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” Starring in a CNN documentary. Preparing a national tour. And churning out four podcasts most weeks featuring long-form interviews and com...
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Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges stemming from the December 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel....
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The life and influential career of record executive Clive Davis will be honored at his funeral Monday. Davis' memorial service will be closed to the public but it will be livestreamed.It is not yet known which stars will attend to pay their respects to Davis, who launched the car...
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Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The company said Monday that its board and management team think each company will be better positioned to pursue its own strategic priorities, invest for growth ...
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Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a shooting left one man dead and another injured in northwest Harris County.The shooting happened Monday morning in the 7700 block of W. Little York Road, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators said two ...
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A construction worker was killed Sunday night after being hit by a work vehicle in a construction zone along the Gulf Freeway, according to the Houston Police Department.The crash happened around 11 p.m. on the southbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway near the Dixie Farm Road exit.De...
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The FIFA World Cup knockout stage arrives in Houston on Monday as Brazil and Japan square off in a highly anticipated Round of 32 match at Houston Stadium. Kickoff is set for noon.FIFA World Cup’s Round of 32 is the first knockout round of the tournament. The stage features the 3...
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Israeli forces struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, medical officials said. Health authorities in the coastal enclave said the drone strike hit a neighb...
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Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation's military and its political influ...
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Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a “circuit-breaker” for the sclerotic British state.The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime...
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Iran's president said Monday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar, as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across the Persian Gulf this weekend. Masoud Pezeshkian 's mention of the funds appear aimed at selling the Iranian ...
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An attorney in Washington state promised “miracles” to tens of thousands of immigrants seeking legal status in the United States.Instead, Alexandra Lozano created fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to apply for humanitarian visas without her clients' knowledge, ...
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Overnight ground operations and strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the neighbors further escalated. One Afghan official said the attacks would be met with retaliation.Pa...
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Australia and Vanuatu signed a long-awaited bilateral security and economic treaty Monday that prevents China creating a military base on the South Pacific island nation.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed the so-called Nakamal Agreement with his Vanuatu counterpart...
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China imposed new export controls Monday on 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to the country’s “remilitarization,” as tensions with Tokyo continue to rise.Twenty Japanese entities, including multiple divisions of Mitsubishi Corporation, have been placed on a control l...
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Asian markets were mixed on Monday and U.S. futures advanced after stocks on Wall Street steadied with only modest losses last week. Benchmarks in Japan and South Korea recovered most of their earlier losses in a day weighed on by more selling of artificial intelligence-related s...
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Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With...
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A roughly 40-hour sea journey on a dinghy with a dying phone. Detention in South Korea. That’s just part of what Chinese dissident Dong Guangping endured to escape his native country. He arrived late last week in Canada, a destination he had eyed for more than a decade. Dong had ...
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Alex Murdaugh will be back in court again Monday on charges he killed his wife and son, appearing at a pretrial hearing that will likely be short on substance but long on spectacle as the true crime sensation continues to captivate.Murdaugh’s murder convictions and sentence of li...
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The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump's expansive claims of presidential power.Trump's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, fire the heads of most independent agencies at will and remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor are am...
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A 24-year-old Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office deputy is being remembered for her dedication to public service after she was struck and killed while directing traffic along Interstate 45 early Sunday morning.Deputy Erika Serrato, a six-year veteran of the sheriff’s office who h...
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It is rare that a New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game gets preempted for anything, especially on network television. That was the case though Sunday night due to a rain delay at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship, and with Scottie Scheffler in contention.An NBC Sports spokesm...
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A toddler was found unresponsive in a swimming pool and later pronounced dead in northeast Harris County, the sheriff's office said.
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A toddler has died after being found unresponsive in a swimming pool in the Huffman area, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.Deputies responded to the 500 block of Lago Trace Drive after receiving a report of an unresponsive toddler in a swimming pool at around 6:10 ...
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Commissioner Lesley Briones and her team distributed the A/C units to pre-selected Precinct 4 families as part of the Cool 4 the Summer program.
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Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist Party's rule, according to a new analysis released Monday by a human rights group. The 88 Project, which focuses on rights issues in V...
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The parade was postponed earlier this month due to storms.
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Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira....
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Houston's Round of 16 match will be the city's final match for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
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A 24-year-old Montgomery County sheriff's deputy was killed early Sunday morning after a commercial truck struck her while she was directing traffic at the scene of an alleged DWI crash on Interstate 45, authorities said....
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A mix of rescue teams and civilians on Sunday peered at a mountain of rubble almost indistinguishable from the other ruins lining swathes of the northern Venezuelan coast following two devastating earthquakes. In the days since Wednesday's devastating 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, search t...
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Pakistani security forces Sunday carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by “calibrated strikes” against militant hideouts and safe havens, killing 29 fighters, officials said.In a post on X, Information Minister Attaulla...
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President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation's capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament.“When completed, this Course will have the ability t...
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The fast-moving flames of a wildfire burning near the Colorado-Utah border claimed the lives of three firefighters and injured two others who had huddled inside emergency shelters to escape the blaze....
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The state Supreme Court granted a "temporary relief" motion filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton against Harris County's Immigrant Legal Services Fund" (ILSF)....
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A woman was shot near downtown Houston while the suspect fled the scene in an unknown vehicle, according to police.
