U.S. President Donald Trump said new talks to wind down the war in Iran will start Monday, after announcing he is holding off on new massive strikes he had threatened to unleash on the country. The talks will seek to end the conflict and revive stalled cargo traffic through the S...
European soccer body UEFA has threatened FIFA with legal action over Gianni Infantino’s failed plan to sell a stake in future World Cup profits to private investors, and said any potential evidence should not be destroyed. Infantino’s secretive proposal to raise $4.2 billion from...
Myanmar's detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with the International Committee of the Red Cross’ representative in the capital on Monday, the military-backed government said, a rare moment of contact with the outside world for the Nobel laureate who has been held out of p...
Maryland lawmakers kicked off a special session Monday to consider a first step in a partisan redistricting initiative that could help Democrats pick up an additional U.S. House seat by 2028. The General Assembly was set to begin debate on a proposed constitutional amendment inte...
Asian shares were mixed Monday after the U.S. and Japan confirmed they had acted to prop up the value of the Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar, causing the yen to rise to its highest level since late last year. Oil prices fell sharply after U.S. President Donald Trump said he ...
President Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war . It starts with a grim warning to Tehran that he's on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to “obliterate” its power plants or seize key parts of its oil industry if its leaders don't quickly agree to...
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” to compensate his political allies, a move that follows weeks of negotiations with two Republican senators who were blocking his nomi...
The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after Trump and Japan's finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets....
The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets. Before late last week, the dollar was trading above 163 yen, touching 40-year highs. After regulators we...
A New Caney family is pleading for the public’s help finding a woman who has been missing for nearly two weeks as search-and-rescue crews comb a sprawling area near Highway 99 and FM 1485. Maria Veronica Ortiz Estrada was last seen by family members around noon on July 20, accord...
Scientists agree that "The Big One," a massive California earthquake along the San Andreas fault, is going to happen - but the question of timing is near-impossible....
A pickup driver exited their truck safely after a water main break caused the road to collapse in Beaumont, city officials said.
Michael Thorbjornsen pumped his right fist after making a 26-foot putt for birdie on his last hole to shoot 7-under 63 and reach 18 under to win his first PGA Tour title by two shots at the final Rocket Classic on Sunday. “Perfect pace, perfect read,” he said. The 24-year-old Tho...
Trump says he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the 5-month old war....
Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Deputies are investigating a shooting this afternoon on E Cypresswood Drive near the North Freeway. The injured man was transported to a local hospital. An adult male sustained a gunshot wound and has been transported to a local hospital for tre...
Jadeveon Clowney is returning to the Houston Texans, the team that selected him No. 1 overall in the 2014 NFL draft, sources told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo on Sunday....
U.S Rep. Max Miller denied abusing his former wife and his daughter.
Two-time Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal is on the move to the Los Angeles Dodgers , giving the two-time defending champions even more talent on a loaded roster. Right-hander Freddy Peralta is switching teams, too, as the Tampa Bay Rays beef up their rotation . Major League Ba...
The first-place Tampa Bay Rays gave their starting rotation a boost Sunday, acquiring pitcher Freddy Peralta from the struggling New York Mets for three minor leaguers. Peralta, a two-time All-Star who can become a free agent this fall, has been a disappointment for the Mets afte...
The Detroit Tigers said their goodbyes to ace Tarik Skubal and now must turn their focus to an uncertain final two months of the season as they try to make a playoff push without their best player. The Tigers traded the two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner to the Los Angele...
A crowd of critics and supporters of Indiana guard Sophie Cunningham's stance on transgender participation in women’s sports gathered around and inside Target Center on Sunday as the Fever faced the Lynx in Minnesota. Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wore a light blue shirt under her jack...
Shiho Kuwaki of Japan saved par to stay alive in a sudden-death playoff Sunday and won with a par on the second extra hole to claim the Women’s British Open over Esther Henseleit of Germany for her first major title. Kuwaki closed with a 1-under 70 and looked like a winner as she...
Dikra, a 20-year-old migrant from Morocco, had spent five days in Ceuta by Sunday after swimming to the Spanish territory with her younger sister and cousin. Since then, all her meals have come from local residents, and she isn't sure when her next one will come. Yet Dikra is cer...
Nearly 23,000 pounds of Ukrop's Homestyle Foods baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products are being recalled because they may contain metal slivers, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service....
An 18-year-old man was found shot near the entryway of an apartment complex along Ella Boulevard.
"'The Simpsons' already did everything." Hear why "American Dad!" producers say that challenge helped them create 400 episodes and counting.
Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a reported shooting at an apartment complex in west Harris County, authorities said. The incident happened overnight at a complex in the 23400 block of Kingsland Boulevard. Investigators said an adult man was found with a gun...
An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the southeastern German town of Bayreuth drew boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some spectators confused. Curator Marcus Lobbes and his team were greeted with...
“Spider-Man: Brand New Day” made box office history in its first weekend in theaters. The Sony-released superhero movie became the second-biggest North American opening ever with an astonishing $355 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was just a few ...
Officers said the man's body was found in the courtyard of the complex on Antoine Drive near West Tidwell Road, less than half a mile from where two men were shot while walking on Friday night....
Three people were killed and seven others were injured, several of them critically, after a shooting at a newly opened In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday afternoon....
Immigration remains a stronger issue for President Donald Trump than the economy or Iran, according to a new AP-NORC poll, even after three people were killed in encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the span of under a week in July. Trump is not getting a glowin...
Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas , an Israeli official said Sunday in what were some of the first public comments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement . Doron Spielman, spoke...
Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but the events of the week were still on everyone’s minds. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, ...
Ken Martin is in survival mode. Desperate to save his job as chair of the Democratic National Committee , he is avoiding media appearances, monitoring his critics' social media posts and refusing — at least so far — to make any substantive changes at his troubled organization. A ...
The source of the water system cyberattacks is being investigated, but they came amid FBI warnings that Iranian hackers have been focused on such systems....
The Los Angeles Dodgers have acquired the biggest prize on the trade deadline market, getting two-time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night. Skubal got the news during the Tigers' 8-6 win over the Athletics and was emotional aft...
Episode: 1611 Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather: ideologies diverge and converge. Today, Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather.
Andruw Monasterio hit a ground-rule double to lead off the eighth and scored the go-ahead run on Connor Wong's double-play grounder as the streaking Boston Red Sox edged the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2 on Saturday night. After the game, the Dodgers acquired the biggest prize on the t...
Carlos Correa’s recovery from surgery to repair a torn ankle tendon is progressing quicker than expected and on Saturday the Houston Astros’ star infielder didn’t rule out a return this season. Correa was expected to miss the entire season after undergoing on his left ankle on Ma...
Ford is recalling tens of thousands of its trucks over a software issue that can sometimes prevent a driver from seeing the video from the rear-facing camera....
Taylor Trammell had two RBIs and Christian Walker added two hits and drove in a run to held give the Houston Astros a 5-4 victory over the Texas Rangers Saturday night that increased their lead in the AL West. It’s the fifth straight victory for the Astros and their 10th in 11 ga...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, in a phone call with President Donald Trump on Saturday raised concerns about the U.S. potentially escalating the conflict with Iran , according to a person familiar with the leaders’ discussion. The discussio...
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened more strikes on Iran as the United States presses for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Davis Riley has put himself in a position to win on the PGA Tour for the first time in more than two years and to earn a postseason bid. Riley shot a 7-under 63 to reach 15 under on Saturday and took a one-shot lead at Detroit Golf Club, where the relatively easy course will give...
The Pittsburgh Pirates are acquiring right-handed reliever Camilo Doval from the New York Yankees in hopes of giving their struggling bullpen a boost. Pittsburgh is sending prospects Omar Alfonso, a catcher, and Luis Cruz, an outfielder, to New York for Doval. The 29-year-old Dov...
Federal regulators are recalling nearly 100,000 toddler kitchen step stools after multiple reports of the stools tipping over and injuring children.
A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.
Yealimi Noh took advantage of a surprising collapse by Haeran Ryu and found her rhythm at just the right time Saturday, with four birdies over the last 10 holes for a 2-under 69 that gave her a three-shot lead going into the final round of the Women's British Open. Noh, the 25-ye...
Duty calls! The cast and creator of "The Rookie" dropped major hints about the upcoming ninth season, a high-stakes two-parter, and character dynamics at San Diego Comic-Con....
Rabe’e Ata Juma’a Alqaq, the Jordanian soccer player whose disappearance from Rice University prompted an urgent search in Houston, says he left on his own after being encouraged by a friend in Chicago — and only realized the widespread concern after he arrived and connected to t...
Drivers across the Houston area should plan for delays this weekend as multiple lane closures and exit ramp shutdowns are scheduled on several major freeways, including I-45, I-610 and Beltway 8....
“Today” show host Savannah Guthrie on Saturday said on social media that her family was “desperate” and “begging for help” in the disappearance of her mother, a day after authorities released two ransom notes including one saying that she had died. Authorities released an early n...
Nearly 12 million bottles of Rohto eye drops have been recalled over concerns they may not be sterile, according to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement report....
An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said Sunday as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also...
The Houston Tattoo Arts Festival at NRG Center is less a single-weekend spectacle than the latest chapter in a practice that stretches back thousands of years. The show— part of the Villain Arts tour —is currently running now through Sunday, with hours listed as 11 a.m.–11 p.m. S...
Faced with a narrow path to winning control of the U.S. House, Democrats are seeing fresh opportunity in a northeast Ohio congressional seat where the Republican incumbent is facing mounting pressure over domestic abuse allegations in a bitter and drawn-out dispute with his ex-wi...
Check out Radar here: Tracking a front Saturday: High pressure that has brought the hot, humid and dry weather moves west Saturday. This will allow and opening for a front to move into southeast Texas. Because of the heat and humidity any storm that forms along the front has the ...
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer. Toss in a crescendoing meteor shower and a six-planet parade on the same day, and the heavens will be overflowing with awe. Daytime darkness will d...
The court ruled the EPA must enforce stricter limits on PM 2.5, which is fine particulate matter such as dust, smoke and soot that can be harmful to health....
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