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Laura Loomer became infamous for spreading conspiracy theories online. Now, as she travels across Ukraine to see the damage inflicted by Russia in its yearslong war, she wants to admit that she fell for some falsehoods of her own. A close ally of President Donald Trump , Loomer h...
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A fatal early-morning crash shut down the northbound lanes of Interstate 45 near Scarsdale Boulevard in southeast Houston on Sunday, authorities said.
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City officials say 16 units in total were affected by the fire, but no residents were injured. Bellaire leaders say two firefighters had to be treated for heat exhaustion, but they are expected to be OK....
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Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv early on Sunday, setting off fires and wounding at least three civilians, while attacks on other parts of Ukraine later killed at least two people, local officials reported. The strikes come as Ukraine’s successful drone attacks have stalled...
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Houston’s stormy stretch is over, but the tradeoff is a return to intense summer heat. Temperatures will climb through the weekend, with Sunday approaching 100 degrees before an even hotter pattern takes hold next week. Several consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures are po...
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to and that has been adopted around the world. Currently, facilities such as nuclear plants, hospitals...
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Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people's hearts by clinging to an orangutan plushie, is marking his first birthday Sunday....
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A driver was killed early Sunday after their vehicle slammed into a parked 18-wheeler in east Houston, according to the Houston Police Department . Investigators said the car was traveling northbound on Dorsett Avenue when it struck the parked big rig near the intersection with P...
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Gripping a microphone outside the courthouse where the infamous Dred Scott case over slavery was argued in 1847, former Rep. Cori Bush portrayed her ouster from Congress as another historic setback set to be reversed. “We’re standing here saying, send back that descendant, send h...
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A Houston firefighter was taken to a local hospital after suffering a twisted ankle while crews battled an abandoned building fire late Saturday at a former school on Center Street. Houston Fire Department crews were dispatched around 11:45 p.m. to the 3200 block of Center Street...
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A late-night fire tore through an apartment complex in Bellaire on Saturday night, prompting a three-alarm response and drawing dozens of firefighters to the scene, according to the Bellaire Fire Department. Crews were called around 9:30 p.m. to the Pont Alba apartments in the 43...
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Tadej Pogacar is poised to win a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title when the showcase race ends with its final stage later on Sunday. Barring mishap or a crash, the 27-year-old Slovenian star will join Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques An...
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The Trump administration has imposed double-digit tariffs on more than 60 countries , using a legal justification that permits the president to levy import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade pra...
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The stage is in battleground Pennsylvania. The stakes are control of the House . House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday will unveil the party's Fighting for an Affordable America agenda, as he kicks off 100 days until the midterm elections and works to focus voter atte...
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Lando Norris ended an eight-month wait for a Formula 1 victory with strong pace and a dose of good fortune to win the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. The defending champion was on pole but lost the lead to his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri when he ran wide at the second corner. ...
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World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations. The UNESCO committee, which meets in Busan th...
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Typhoon Noul weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday as it moved inland after making landfall and bringing winds and heavy rain along the coast of southern China. Chinese weather authorities expected parts of southern Guangdong and southeastern Fujian provinces to experience heavy...
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A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 in one region alone as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, wh...
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Four years after being extradited to the United States for his drug trafficking trial, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández arrived in his country Sunday to face corruption charges that lawyers fear will be a sham process. Hernández, once considered an ally by the U.S...
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German authorities on Sunday issued a wanted notice for a fugitive suspect in the van ramming near Berlin’s Pride festival that left one person dead and injured at least 16 others. Police and prosecutors asked for help in finding the 21-year-old, whom they identified as Abdul B. ...
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Episode: 1608 Three scale models of structures, with vastly different weights. Today, we design for tension.
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China has a hot new product in the United States: artificial intelligence . San Francisco-based Raffi Krikorian, the chief technology officer at Mozilla, which runs the Firefox browser, switched to Chinese AI startup Moonshot’s Kimi K3 for many of his day-to-day activities within...
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Tropical Storm Genevieve has strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. It is forecast to pick up even more steam and become a major hurricane in the coming days but stay well out to sea on a course roughly parallel to the shore. Genevieve had maximum...
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Hunter Brown pitched seven shutout innings of two-hit ball and Isaac Paredes had three RBIs as the Houston Astros beat the Chicago White Sox 4-1 on Saturday night for their fifth straight victory. Jeremy Peña finished with three of Houston’s six hits and scored twice. He became t...
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One person is dead and at least 16 were injured in an attack during a Pride celebration in Berlin.
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Jonquel Jones had 22 points, 13 rebounds and eight assists, helping Caitlin Clark and Team Spoon outlast Marina Mabrey and Team Coop 129-122 in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday night. Dominique Malonga had a first-half dunk for Team Coop, but Team Spoon had eight players score ...
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Ryan Gosling is joining the Marvel cinematic universe as Ghost Rider, re-teaming with his “Star Wars: Starfighter” director Shawn Levy on a film set for release in 2028. Gosling joined Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige Saturday at Comic-Con International's Hall H as about 7,000 fa...
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Insufficient drain holes may prevent water from draining properly, increasing the crash risk.
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Mone Ford, 22, was arrested and charged after meth, cocaine, marijuana and fentanyl were found during searches at multiple Galveston County locations, authorities said....
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The suspect allegedly tried to hit people in the parking lot with a car before barricading himself inside the store while armed, according to authorities....
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Authorities have responded to a reported shooting at Deerbrook Mall in Humble. Details are limited at this time, but the Harris County Sheriff’s Office says they are assisting the Humble Police Department with the incident. @HCSOTexas deputies are assisting the Humble Police Depa...
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Law enforcement is responding to a shooting call at Deerbrook Mall in Humble, the Harris County Sheriff's Office confirms.
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Harris County authorities say at least person has been reported shot.
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The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing, while diplomatic efforts have pushed forward to try to avert a return to all-out war. But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. and Iran are at an inflection point in a mercurial ...
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Shohei Ohtani skipped a tentatively scheduled bullpen session Saturday and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the two-way superstar won’t throw off a mound again until his irritated left knee feels 100%. “We’re just going to kick the can,” Roberts said before his team ...
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An LAPD detective testified that singer D4vd's phone had sexually explicit photos of his alleged teen victim, Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
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PGA Tour rookie Jackson Koivun shot a 61 in the third round of the 3M Open on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead at 20-under par, setting a tournament record with a 28 on the back nine at the TPC Twin Cities. Emiliano Grillo and Ben Kohles each had a 65 and are tied for second ...
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Houston’s BBQ scene has a new name worth knowing — and he’s rewriting the rules one pop-up at a time. Ivan Chavez, owner and pitmaster of Chavo’s BBQ, grew up in Houston’s Second Ward surrounded by Mexican classics and Texas BBQ traditions. That upbringing became the foundation f...
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Police say the suspect tampered with evidence at the scene of a crash that injured four people on Thursday.
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Two NBA coaches who got their start in Houston are hosting camps for local kids through their organization, Vivid Collective.
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The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office says a 33-year-old man was arrested after barricading himself inside a Five Below store with a weapon after trying to hit multiple people with a vehicle. The incident started shortly after midnight Saturday morning when deputies responded to ...
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It may be summertime, but Hulu is getting into the holiday spirit with "Family Guy" and "Bob's Burgers" special holiday content coming later this year....
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Court documents allege that the severity of the damage to the vehicle that killed boxer Hannah Rapp contradicted the driver's claim that he reversed at a low speed....
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The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed an Army staff sergeant originally reported missing after an Iranian assault on an air base last week had died....
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A car drove into a crowd during Berlin's famed LGBTQ+ parade on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital hours after it had begun. Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. Firefighter...
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Diode Ventures said Gov. Greg Abbott's tougher stance on data center development in rural areas drove the decision to cancel the project.
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Carson Hocevar used a late qualifying run to knock Tyler Reddick out of the No. 1 spot, then survived a late charge from Daniel Suarez to capture his first Brickyard 400 pole Saturday. Hocevar, who drives for Spire Motorsports, produced a fast lap of 186.598 mph. Suarez, his team...
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Measles has continued its historic resurgence in the United States this year, with a second record-breaking year in a row.
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New York Mets slugger Juan Soto was placed on the 10-day injured list on Saturday because of a left calf strain. Soto walked twice against Dodgers starter Roki Sasaki in Friday’s 4-2 loss before being replaced by Jorge Polanco in the sixth inning with the score tied at 1. He appe...
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Two proposals tied to Conroe’s use of Flock Safety cameras were tabled indefinitely on July 23 after City Council members voted unanimously to set both items aside....
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An off-duty Montgomery County firefighter was arrested for possessing a controlled substance and tampering with evidence after a multi-vehicle crash, Conroe police said....
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Galveston County authorities arrested a 22-year-old man and seized 11.5 pounds of methamphetamine, hundreds of pressed pills and a pill press during a series of searches at homes and storage facilities Friday, according to the sheriff’s office....
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San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was injured in a car crash earlier this month that will limit his participation at the start of training camp, the team announced Saturday, when camp opened. Shanahan suffered a concussion, broke his nose and several ribs, and injured his h...
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Houston is one of the most diverse culinary cities in the country — but turning a great food idea into a real business is anything but easy. Ox St. Kitchen , a shared commercial kitchen and food business incubator in Houston’s East End, is changing that. The kitchen officially ce...
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The New England Patriots are showing cornerback Christian Gonzalez how much he's valued. Team owner Robert Kraft said Saturday the star cornerback has been offered the highest contract in Patriots history. “We love Christian Gonzalez. We love him as a player, as a person. That's ...
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Trump's tariffs are headed to court — again. Two lawsuits filed by small businesses are challenging Trump's sweeping tariffs announced Thursday that impose double-digit levies on 60 trading partners . The tariffs, implemented under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for what th...
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Israel’s military said it detained over 70 suspects across the occupied West Bank overnight and on Saturday, a day after troops deployed across the territory following violence that left two Israeli soldiers and four Palestinian villagers dead. Soldiers remained in the village of...
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Dangerously hot weather will expand across much of the central United States this weekend and into next week, pushing temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius) from Dallas to North Dakota with roughly 70 million people facing heat advisories. A heat dome , ...
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The group's actions are meant to bring awareness to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who was shot and killed by an ICE officer on the morning of July 7 in Houston's East End....
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Authorities in Michigan are investigating possible foul play after eight people, including six children, were found dead inside a burning home Friday with some of the victims suffering gunshot wounds....
