The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a more aggressive approach toward its second-largest trading partner. The European Commission’s to...
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A 62-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash Wednesday night in north Houston. The crash happened around 10:58 p.m. Oct. 7 in the 8500 block of West Montgomery Road. Investigators said the motorcyclist was traveling eastbound on West Montgomery Road when a white Toyota Camry ...
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To learn more about Republican nominee Mayes Middleton, read our profile of him from the GOP primary. In 2018, a little-known Dallas lawyer named Nathan Johnson took on a well-funded, far-right state senator and won, flipping a district that had been in GOP hands for 30 years. Ei...
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Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton suggested he would support cuts to federal benefits programs during a private fundraiser with Washington lobbyists last month, according to an audio recording obtained by The Texas Tribune, the fourth leaked clip from the Sept. 24 event. ...
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Christa Pike was sentenced to death after being convicted of the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.
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Rescuers searched through the rubble of a residential building hit by a Russian missile in the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky on Thursday as the death toll rose to 22, including five children, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. The strike Wednesday in the country's Chern...
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The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded Thursday by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. Last year, Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai , whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature for work the judges sa...
schools
Isaias surged toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, prompting mandatory evacuations and school closures in parts of Florida. Isaias was forecast to intensify rapidly and bring strong winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the F...
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Fernando Tatis Jr.'s 429-foot home run to straightaway center field leading off the third inning got the sellout crowd of 47,712 at Petco Park revved up and waving their yellow rally towels. That was pretty much the extent of the excitement for those fans as the San Diego Padres ...
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Although outfielder Garrett Mitchell gracefully accepted congratulations for robbing Manny Machado of a tying home run late in the Milwaukee Brewers’ Division Series-clinching victory, he clearly wasn’t all that impressed with himself. To Mitchell, that dramatic play was just the...
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The price of Brent crude oil jumped more than 4% on Thursday as rising tensions in the Middle East added to uncertainties over supplies. Share prices fell in Europe and Asia and U.S. futures also declined after U.S. stocks retreated under pressure from rising yields in the bond m...
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The police tear gas grenade shattered the 14-year-old’s jaw and many of his teeth. The officer who fired it was taken into custody a week later and charged with violent mutilation, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Following surgery, the boy cannot speak and can only eat wi...
