Thirteen years ago, when Texas created the tax deal for data centers, state lawmakers expected to lose — at most — $14 million in tax revenue in Texas' next 2-year budget cycle. Now, state projections show it could lead to Texas forgoing more than $3 billion in the 2028-29 bienni...
Texas Game Wardens released video of a fisherman’s rescue at Lake Tawakoni. The man spent more than three hours in the water after being thrown from his boat....
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Minnesota's first-in-the-nation law banning prediction markets just days before it was to take effect, the latest clash between President Donald Trump's administration and states over who regulates operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket. M...
The U.S. Senate race in Texas continues to be competitive, according to a poll published Tuesday.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a rising national figure in the Democratic Party, is calling on the state's Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell to either prove that he is fit to continue serving after his lengthy hospital stay or resign from office. Beshear made the demand in a letter af...
The Jordanian athlete who was reported missing while attending the Genuine Cup in Houston has been found states away, according to the university.
A South Jersey man found a curious message in a bottle during his clean-up routine, which was set adrift by a 9-year-old in 1973.
ERCOT and the PUCT said they've already taken steps to regulate large energy consumers and called for the state legislature to expand their authority.
Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina will be re-named in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, the White House said Tuesday.
The man on trial in the stabbing of Salman Rushdie chose Tuesday not to testify or call any witnesses in the federal terrorism case, which is expected to head to the jury as soon as Wednesday. Hadi Matar's lawyer told the court that the 28-year-old — who already has been convicte...
Andy Lippman, the Los Angeles bureau chief during the O.J. Simpson trial and the L.A. riots during a 39-year career with The Associated Press, has died at age 78. Lippman died at his home in Tucson on July 25, according to his brother, Glenn. He died from multiple system atrophy,...
Houston summers are known for their heat, but sometimes that heat reaches the extreme end of the spectrum. That’s exactly what we’re experiencing right now. With the perfect combination of abundant humidity, an intense heat dome overhead, and peak summertime heating, conditions c...
First responders searched damaged homes and buildings on Tuesday for possible victims of a powerful tornado that carved a path of destruction through several northeastern Wisconsin communities. The twister touched down in the Fox Cities region, which includes Appleton, Menasha an...
More than six years after a Houston-area teenager disappeared after becoming a victim of human trafficking, authorities have identified her remains, bringing long-awaited answers to a case that had remained unsolved. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that advance...
The parents of Thy Mitchell have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Harris County alleging Matthew Mitchell planned to murder his family, according to court records....
The family of a 93-year-old woman who died in July is pressing for answers and accountability after they allege that their loved one was cremated against her final wishes...
Human remains found in 2020 have been identified as a Houston-area teen who had been missing for six years after being a victim of human trafficking, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton's Office....
The American Red Cross has declared a national blood supply crisis after blood donations this summer are at a four-year low and is now limiting distribution of type O blood to hospitals....
An amateur cricket match in England has become a viral sensation after allegations of cheating were shared on social media. A video , which claims to show a fielder clicking his fingers to imitate the sound of a bat connecting with the ball before a player is called out, has been...
A pack of coyotes has taken over an abandoned construction zone in West Hollywood, alarming neighbors with nightly howling and barking.
Authorities in Uganda declared the East Africa nation free of Ebola on Tuesday following the discharge of the country's last patient in mid-June, a delicate milestone as the virus continues to plague neighboring Congo. Uganda has maintained since the outset that its cases were li...
Jackie remains stable but critical as she is treated in intensive care at the Ojai Raptor Center, vet teams shared in an update on Monday.
The U.S. will resume limited imports of Mexican cattle on Aug. 24, reopening a trade route that had been closed for more than a year because of the northward spread of New World screwworm. The move comes as tight cattle supplies have pushed beef prices to record highs....
The 21-year-old singer from Houston, whose legal name is David Burke, faces charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains....
Roberto Mancini has once again been tasked with revitalizing an Italy team in crisis , almost exactly three years after he bolted on the national team. Italian soccer federation president Giovanni Malagò announced Mancini as the new Italy coach on Tuesday, adding that Claudio Ran...
Expect lines at lottery retailers as the combined Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots are over $1.4 billion. Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot is an estimated $800 million and Wednesday’s Powerball is an estimated $663 million....
A tornado struck Wisconsin on Monday, blackening the midday sky and sending workers sheltering in office basements and knocked out power to more than 30,000 people....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday is the first since the two leaders launched a joint war against Iran and a chance for Netanyahu to smooth out strains in their relationship. The two leaders also plan to discuss the framewo...
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remain...
A federal judge mandated Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego be released within 48 hours. He was one of three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE....
A new stock exchange based in Texas officially begins trading this week, marking the state’s latest push to become a major financial hub. The Texas Stock Exchange, headquartered in Dallas, is launching in phases throughout July as it looks to compete with the New York Stock Excha...
Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown pleaded guilty Friday to affray over an altercation in a London nightclub in a fight that injured a music producer. Brown, 37, made the change of plea during a hearing at London’s Southwark Crown Court. He had previously denied more serious charg...
Houston Astros (53-55, second in the AL West) vs. Los Angeles Angels (42-65, fifth in the AL West) Anaheim, California; Tuesday, 9:38 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Astros: Peter Lambert (8-5, 3.03 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 94 strikeouts); Angels: Reid Detmers (3-7, 4.05 ERA, 1.10 WHIP, 136 ...
Other drugs, including fentanyl, also were seized, along with body armor, a gun and cash, according to authorities.
Zelenskyy and Netanyahu are expected to meet with Trump in addition to attending the funeral of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.
On Tuesday's show: We find out why this week could be the hottest stretch of the summer in Houston. And we learn some good news about Corpus Christi's water crisis....
Democrat Paige Cognetti is taking a shot at artificial intelligence data centers in her challenge to freshman Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan, saying “we are not for sale” in a new TV ad in a swing Pennsylvania congressional district where communities are fighting data center proje...
Hello, Houston.☀️ It’s HOT! If you’ve stepped foot outside within the past 24 hours, you know exactly what I am talking about. But we learned that today will be worse. Temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees today, and feel-like temperatures will reach as high as 110 degre...
Summertime means peach season in Texas. But some fruit stands have had to import the fruit from other states after the combination of a warm winter and a late spring freeze wiped out much of the local crop....
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. LUBBOCK — When Texas was awarded more than $3 billion to expand broadband services to every corner of the...
Protesters demonstrating against ongoing power outages in Libya stormed a key energy complex overnight and closed gas lines that fuel power plants, which officials warned could trigger a nationwide power blackout. Demonstrators in the capital Tripoli, Zawiya, Misrata and other lo...
Confirmed cases in Congo's ongoing Ebola outbreak have reached 3,262, its Ministry of Health said in an overnight update, nearly the same as the 2018-2020 outbreak that is the largest ever recorded in the country. Data from the Congolese health ministry showed that 1,437 patients...
Hurricane Genevieve was roaring in the Pacific Ocean far from land early Tuesday at the same time that the weakening Tropical Storm Fausto was bringing large surf to Hawaii. Genevieve is a Category 4 hurricane, after briefly reaching Category 5 early Monday, the first in the East...
Soccer’s law-making panel clarified its guidance to referees which confirmed Switzerland forward Breel Embolo should not have been sent off in the World Cup quarterfinals against Argentina. Embolo’s second yellow card, after a video review for simulating being fouled, changed the...
An earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 shook Kumamoto on Japan's southern main island of Kyushu and a tsunami advisory was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said....
Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has killed nearly 500 civilians in Afghanistan and wounded over 1,000 others between October and the end of June, the United Nations said Tuesday. In a report on the human rights situation, the United Nations Assistance Missi...
Tuesday marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which was born after the ravages of World War II to help people fleeing war, violence and persecution. Proponents say the treaty has saved millions of lives. Respect for it, though, has come under strain : Some co...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday is the first since the two leaders launched a joint war against Iran and a chance for Netanyahu to smooth out strains in their relationship. The meeting comes as both face growing pressures...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims artificial intelligence has reached a long-sought threshold in which the technology can improve itself, unleashing rapid progress that may prove difficult to fully control. The milestone, known as the singularity, promises significant benefits for soc...
Episode: 3392 The Rise of Orientalism and its crescendo in the Roaring ‘20s. Today, strange happenings in the 1920s.
Grant McCray hit his first home run of the season in the fourth inning and Tyler Mahle threw six sharp innings as the San Francisco Giants downed the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0 on Monday night. Giants’ Luis Arraez got the scoring started in the third inning, knocking in rookie catcher...
The field of Republican candidates vying to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on November ballots is set, with 12 hopefuls filing their paperwork by Tuesday and launching into a two-week sprint toward the Aug. 11 special GOP primary. It's been a jumbled and frenetic period dur...
South Korea’s Kospi index plunged more than 10% on Tuesday on heavy selling of chipmaking stocks that have gyrated recently due to concerns over the sustainability of the boom in artificial intelligence. Oil prices fell more than 1%, while U.S. futures were little changed. Tradin...
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham's funeral , their second sit-down this month and after a far-right activist with the U.S. president’s ear had a widely publicized change of heart on Russia’s war agai...
The new drama series is the latest show produced by Ryan Murphy.
Investigators accused the Cypress man of kidnapping the mother of his children, handcuffing her and keeping her locked inside a closet for an extended period before she escaped....
Lawyers were making closing statements Tuesday in the Australian trial of a British YouTuber and rapper known as Yung Filly on charges that he raped and choked a fan following a music performance two years ago. The 30-year-old entertainer, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valenci...
13 Investigates wanted to know more about the county's financial commitment to the Toro District and behind-the-scenes discussions happening between the County, Howard Hughes and the Texans....
Residents at a senior apartment complex in The Woodlands say they're dealing with a serious rat infestation inside their apartments.
Deerbrook Mall officials are reviewing security measures following a recent shooting inside the mall, while also pushing back against claims that the incident was connected to a teen takeover....
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