World shares were mostly higher on Tuesday and U.S. futures advanced after shares rose to near a record close on Wall Street. Oil prices fell as the situation in the Middle East remained uncertain. In early European trading, Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.8% to 10,584.38. France's CAC 40 also climbe...
government
With Republicans bracing for a difficult midterm election, Texas appears to have its biggest slate of competitive races for the Texas Legislature and U.S. Congress in years. The Texas Tribune has compiled a list of the most competitive general election contests, a measure of whic...
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SAN ANTONIO — As canvassers gathered near a golf course on San Antonio’s Southside, armed with bilingual campaign literature and a willingness to brave the September Texas heat, Carlos De La Cruz clarified the stakes for his campaign volunteers. “God willing, we will maintain the...
schools
A Texas law restricting protesting on public college campuses will face a constitutional test Tuesday. Legislators passed Senate Bill 2972 in response to the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests at colleges that occurred across the state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit wi...
safety
A man was found shot to death in a northwest Houston parking lot Tuesday morning. Houston police said officers responded to a call about a shooting around 12:40 a.m. in the 8000 block of West Tidwell Road. When officers arrived, they found a man in his late 20s to early 30s lying...
safety
A 31-year-old man has been arrested and charged with capital murder after a woman and another man were fatally shot outside a north Houston home Monday morning, according to the Houston Police Department. David Herrera was arrested Oct. 5, shortly after the shooting that killed 2...
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Top-ranked Jannik Sinner announced he will be out for the rest of the year as he continues to deal with an injured knee. Sinner has not played since July when he beat Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final . He withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a right knee injury. “Me, tog...
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Kenya’s Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed the country’s first imported Ebola case from Congo. Health Minister Aden Duale said a Kenyan citizen who arrived in the country on Saturday from Congo via Uganda had been isolated and treated at Nairobi Hospital. The patient tested pos...
schools
Protesting pupils blockaded their high schools again Tuesday and adult demonstrators marched in support of the teenagers' weeks-old nationwide movement demanding more resources for the school system. At the Hélène Boucher lycée, or high school, in Paris' 20th district, protesters...
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Televangelist Jim Bakker has died at 86. He built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" with his first wife Tammy Faye.
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Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. “Francis Halzen has led an international team of researchers and engineers who have provided us w...
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Episode: 3415 Germany's first woman doctor has some hard advice for her fellow doctors. Today, a new look at Dorothea Erxleben.
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A 73-year-old Richmond-area man will spend life in prison after being convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to Fort Bend County District Attorney Brian Middleton....
