Left-hander Justin Wrobleski became the sixth member of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on the National League All-Star roster and Chicago outfielder Tristan Peters was added to the American League squad on Saturday, a day after becoming the seventh White Sox player to hit for the c...
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Carla Gregory was fighting the heat even before watching the World Cup quarterfinal between England and Norway on Saturday.She carried cold water in one hand. She had an unfolded fan in the other, flapping it with hopes of creating her own little breeze. And the elements seemed to be winning; no ...
Argentine Antonio Rattín, a former Boca Juniors player whose act of defiance while representing Argentina at the 1966 World Cup helped lead to the introduction of yellow and red cards, has died, the country’s football federation said Saturday. He was 89.Rattín died in Buenos Aires, according to t...
New York City’s famed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was among a number of Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease amid the city’s latest outbreak.The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on the Upper East Side...
U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna said Saturday that he was detained by settlers and the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank and released only after calls to the American Embassy in Jerusalem. The Israeli Defense Forces denied detaining any visitors in the incident, the latest example of escalating poli...
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., says he and members of his congressional delegation were detained by armed Israeli settlers while visiting the West Bank near the Palestinian village of Khirbet Zanuta.
Salgado Araujo was shot Tuesday morning during what ICE has called a “targeted enforcement operation.” He was traveling to work with three other men in his car.
Left-hander Justin Wrobleski became the sixth member of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers on the National League All-Star roster and Chicago outfielder Tristan Peters was added to the American League squad on Saturday, a day after becoming the seventh White Sox player to hit for the c...
Expected to go as the first pick in the amateur draft, Roch Cholowsky submitted a video to Major League Baseball with the correct pronunciation of his last name.For the record, the name is pronounced chil-OW’-skee.Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred still botched the pronunciation of Cholowsky’s na...
A North Carolina man allegedly kicked down his ex-girlfriend's apartment door and fatally stabbed his 5-year-old son before leaving and heading to Taco Bell.
A federal judge has dismissed the remnants of the government's landmark case against far-right Proud Boys members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting to attack the Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in the White House more than five years ago.The case's dismissal late Frid...
President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran “ at levels they've never seen before ” if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him. But the U.S. government has no way to create an automatic, preauthorized “dead man’s s...
We started our Saturday morning with thunderstorms. These storms are moving north. Here is the live radar so you can see where the rain is falling. Saturday’s forecast:More storms are expected this weekend. While similar to the hit and miss sea breeze storms we’ve had all week, we now have tropic...
The tropics remain relatively quiet for July, no complaints here.
Tropical moisture is back, and when it combines with a summer front on Monday, storm chances will climb even higher to make street flooding possible.
Kate, the Princess of Wales, returned to Wimbledon for the women's final between Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova on Saturday as part of a Royal Box contingent that included tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King.Jodie Foster, “Emily in Paris” star Lily Collins, and “Ted Lasso” ...
Germany officials have held talks with Jurgen Klopp and both sides are confident he will take over as coach, the national soccer federation said Saturday. Former coach Julian Nagelsmann resigned after his team failed to make the round of 16 for the third World Cup running. Klopp, a serial trophy ...
A DoorDash driver completed her delivery after being hit by suspect Torrance Whitaker in a police chase in Houston, Texas.
South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams, who played at the World Cup, has died. He was 25.His death was confirmed by Gayton McKenzie, South Africa’s minister of sport, arts and culture, in a statement on Saturday.“It is with profound shock and a heavy heart that I have learnt of the passing of Jayde...
A widespread and dangerous heat wave was building across the U.S. on Saturday, with triple-digit highs expected in the Southwest and Great Plains this weekend before spreading eastward under a dome of high pressure that meteorologists say could trap oppressive temperatures for a week or more.Fore...
Haeran Ryu set the scoring record for LPGA majors on Saturday with an 11-under 60, giving the South Korean player a three-shot lead in the Evian Championship as she goes for a second straight major.Two weeks after winning her first major at the Women's PGA Championship, Ryu birdied four of her la...
Linda Noskova placed fingers in both of her ears to drown out the noise from the Centre Court crowd.She draped one of Wimbledon’s strawberry-red towels over her head.And eventually — after she had wasted five match points and a 5-2 lead and conceded the second set of a drama-filled final — she le...
Deeper Gulf moisture keeps pouring in this weekend, so expect more clouds and higher rain chances.
One runner has been gored in the face, and many more were fortunate to not be seriously injured during a chaotic bull run at Spain's San Fermin festival on Saturday.
Houston labor organizations, community leaders and elected officials gathered Saturday morning to mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents earlier this week.The vigil was held at 10 a.m. at the SEIU Texas office, located at 3219 Harr...
On Independence Day, as second-term Republican Dan Sullivan and his chief rival in Alaska's U.S. Senate race Democrat Mary Peltola headlined parades, the other Dan Sullivan seeking the seat was happily on the sidelines of festivities in this small fishing community he long has called home. He ble...
Hundreds of firefighters backed by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft struggled on Saturday to contain one of Spain's deadliest wildfires that erupted earlier this week and killed a least 12 people. The blazes, which also lashed France this week, came as parts of Western Europe are facing their ...
President Donald Trump has threatened Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral, where there were calls for Trump's assassination.
A boat returning from an island trip in southern Vietnam capsized on Saturday, killing 15 Indian tourists less than half a kilometer (0.30 mile) from shore, as passengers shouted for help, officials and a witness said. The speedboat was carrying 32 Indian tourists and four crew members when it ov...
The Department of Justice has subpoenaed New York Times journalists after they reported on security concerns involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One, marking a dramatic escalation of President Donald Trump ’s campaign against the media that has drawn condemnation for eroding a fundamental ...
Russian attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including a child, and wounded 29, officials said on Saturday, adding that Ukrainian forces damaged more than two dozen Russian tankers and other vessels in the Sea of Azov. The exchange came as Ukraine’s drones have lately been hitting oil refineries...
Episode: 1600 Henry Adams ponders the Virgin and the Dynamo. science, medieval architecture, Langley, 1900 Paris exhibition, Chartres cathedral.
Erling Haaland stands at 6 feet, 5 inches, an intimidating force who can make fellow soccer players look tiny in stature and talent. Scoring seven goals across four World Cup matches entering Saturday, the Norwegian player has been described as a machine. But if you ask some loyal new fans, he’s ...
With a trash-grabbing claw and plastic bag in hand, Justin Gignac dressed up in his wedding tuxedo and waded through the Swifties, some of whom had spent hours standing outside Madison Square Garden.He was hoping to find beads from broken friendship bracelets — something symbolic among fans of Ta...
The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston.Fourteen hours later, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo would return to the wife he’d met as a teenager in Mexico and the mode...
A week ago, 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells took a boat trip with friends to celebrate the Fourth of July on an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. He never came back.Two days later, he was found dead. What happened, Wells' parents say, is a mystery riddled with conflicting stories, implausible e...
Houston Mayor John Whitmire says he and Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare will do everything within their resources to pursue an independent and transparent investigation following a deadly shooting involving an ICE agent on Tuesday.
U.S. and Iranian leaders traded threats on Saturday as the interim deal to end the war buckled under crossfire in the Middle East and efforts continued to keep talks going.President Donald Trump overnight on social media threatened further missile attacks against Iran, after the funeral of Suprem...
13 Investigates a Houston-area connection to what the FBI is calling one of the "biggest Medicare scams in history."
Police said that an officer said discharged a firearm, striking the suspect. No officers were injured at the scene, HPD said.
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