Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday as uncertainty persisted over conflict in the Middle East and access to the crucial Strait of Hormuz despite an initial deal to end the U.S.-Iran war. U.S. futures slipped and oil prices edged higher. The U.S. dollar rose to 162.68 Japanese yen from 162.55 yen...
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A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz after not running Iran’s approved route through the water, Iranian state television reported Wednesday. The report identified the affected vessel as a foreign container ship, but offered no other immediate details.The Iranian state TV report appeared aim...
Angelica Mundrain wants the bodies of her son, niece and nephew to be pulled from the rubble of her flattened beachfront apartment. She has spent every minute of the past six days waiting for the heavy machinery needed to remove the slabs of concrete and twisted metal that trapped them. So have o...
Turkey is rolling out sweeping security measures for the upcoming NATO summit, deploying tens of thousands of police and placing air defenses on high alert, while banning public gatherings and imposing controversial restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly.That's meant to safeguard the ...
Episode: 3264 David Hockney, Digital Painting, and Art’s Technophobia. Today, painting with pixels, in the hands of a master.
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to ...
A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics on Wednesday directly defied Pope Leo XIV by celebrating an ancient Latin Mass to consecrate four bishops without his consent, dismissing the threat of schism and excommunication and justifying their actions as a “sacred duty” to defend the Catholic f...
The lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.Fuel rationing has been introduced in many regions, with hourslong queues of c...
It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there rem...
Standing in front of a large group of football players, Ramon Chinyoung reminded them about what’s possible when you dream big and work hard.Chinyoung is rising on the NFL coaching ladder. His roots are in Houston, though, at the high school football level as the head coach at Willow ridge.Now, C...
When Morocco advanced to the Round of 32 in the FIFA World Cup 2026, Madiha Bekkali knew she wanted her son to see them play in person and bought tickets to the game in Guadalajara, Mexico, against the Netherlands. Friends of hers told her not to waste her money and to wait until Morocco reached ...
A 38-year-old man from Magnolia faces a murder charge in connection with a woman found dead inside a vehicle in League City, police said.
A young employee was killed and a customer was injured after a vehicle crashed into a building in Atascocita on Tuesday, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office
Asian shares were mixed on Wednesday as uncertainty persisted over conflict in the Middle East and access to the crucial Strait of Hormuz despite an initial deal to end the U.S.-Iran war. U.S. futures slipped and oil prices edged higher. The U.S. dollar rose to 162.68 Japanese yen from 162.55 yen...
A Montgomery County Precinct 5 deputy has resigned after an internal investigation found he violated department policies by sharing protected information and operating his patrol vehicle in an unsafe manner.The Precinct 5 Constable’s Office announced Tuesday that its investigation into allegation...
Authorities arrested four adults on felony child endangerment charges after discovering 16 children in dire need of medical treatment Tuesday in a rural southern Ohio home.The Ohio Bureau of Investigation and local sheriff's department searched a home in the small village of Hamden, where they fo...
An Adolf Hitler baby photo in a Paramus, New Jersey East Brook Middle School yearbook sparked an investigation.
Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras was tossed for a second straight game on Tuesday after throwing his helmet toward Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli during a heated exchange that ended with the benches clearing and multiple ejections.Cavalli struck out Contreras looking on a...
Whither the U.S. House?As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits.The House leadership on Tuesday abruptly canceled votes and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker Mike Johnson ’s majority once again ground ...
Rookies are prone to mistakes. Cooper Ingle made a big one he may never forget.Cleveland's left fielder lost track of the number of outs in the seventh inning and threw the ball into the stands, allowing the Texas Rangers to score the go-ahead run in a 4-2 victory over the Guardians on Tuesday ni...
President Donald Trump earned more than $1 billion from his cryptocurrency ventures, according to his personal financial disclosure released on Tuesday.
Plans are in motion to explore reopening the point that connects St. Charles Street in Second Ward to Preston Street in East Downtown by renovating an abandoned underpass, organizers say.
Records reveal how long it took to share information about a countywide voting problem during May's runoff election in Fort Bend County.
The decision comes more than seven years after two people were killed inside their southeast Houston home during a Jan. 2019 no-knock drug raid that was based on false information.
Law enforcement has seized more than 27,000 counterfeit FIFA-related items worth more than $6.1 million across the Houston area in approximately the past two weeks, according to court records and officials — and with the tournament wrapping up in Houston on Saturday, experts are warning fans not ...
Police said the discovery was made while crews were clearing debris from the construction site. Construction workers reported finding what appeared to be headstones dating back to the early 1900s.
A major shakeup to the federal student loan system affecting millions of borrowers will take effect July 1.
As the Fourth of July holiday weekend approaches, Airbnb is expanding its use of artificial intelligence to help prevent unauthorized parties after a Houston short-term rental gathering ended in gunfire, raising renewed concerns about neighborhood safety and enforcement.The company announced it i...
Gov. Greg Abbott called for blocking new data center development in rural parts of the state during a campaign stop in East Texas on Tuesday.“We must prohibit them from building AI data centers in rural Texas neighborhoods,” Abbott said at the Bullard event, which primarily discussed his plan to ...
It wouldn’t feel like the Fourth of July without fireworks. Most people know to be careful while lighting firecrackers, fountains, Roman candles, and more, but fewer realize that just as much danger lies in what happens after. Improper cleanup and disposal of spent fireworks is a leading cause of...
Increasing moisture levels will lead to higher rain chances as we head into July.
Only on 13, shocking dashcam video shows a man climbing in and out of a smashed truck window during an alleged carjacking involving a pitchfork.
Photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. adorned with flower lei from Hawaii residents who traveled to Selma, Alabama, to join him on a pivotal Civil Rights march went on public display Tuesday in the state Capitol in Honolulu. The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Votin...
The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, called Tuesday’s ruling a victory for all Americans, saying it reaffirmed that precedent.“I don't consider this stuff a pe...
Kylian Mbappé and France are sizzling — and not just because of MetLife Stadium's broiling conditions.Mbappé had his third two-goal game of this World Cup and set a career scoring record for the tournament's knockout rounds, leading Les Bleus over Sweden 3-0 on Tuesday to set up a round of 16 mat...
Sportsbook operators anticipated this year's World Cup would set betting records because the major elements were aligned.
Texas politics have become deeply engaged in the fight over the future of college football. In this week’s episode, the TribCast crew is joined by Ralph Russo, senior writer for The Athletic and host of The Audible podcast. We discuss the saga of Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby, the influen...
More than a dozen train cars left the tracks after a freight train derailment on Tuesday afternoon in Bensalem, Bucks County.
The NBA is going back to college this coming season, bringing the NBA Cup championship game to Butler's historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.Hinkle — one of the oldest arenas in the country — is iconic, and more than fits the billing that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and other league offici...
As the excitement builds for Disney's live-action 'Moana,' fans of the franchise will get a chance to feel closer to the famous wayfinder and voyager.
Catherine Laga'aia won the role of a lifetime in the live-action "Moana." And we're finding out just how many others applied for the part! Watch her shine in "Moana" in theaters July 10.
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