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Multiple flights in a single day. Nearly 60,000 miles. More than 100 hours aloft.FIFA President Gianni Infantino got some serious air time over the course of the 2026 World Cup, the tournament's most far-flung edition ever. He crisscrossed North America for matches, meetings and ...
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Maryam Aminu was hardly surprised when the last of her six children was diagnosed with malnutrition in April for a second time. She was barely feeding the 18-month-old regularly, let alone with nutritious foods.Although the family in northwest Nigeria has struggled with economic ...
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There’s a special moment when Katsushi Horikawa feels closer to the gods. It comes as he rides atop one of the towering floats pulled through the streets in a centuries-old procession in Japan.This is the Gion Matsuri festival, born more than 1,000 years ago as a ritual to ward o...
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Expect some goals in the World Cup final. At least, that’s what history says.In the 22 previous World Cup men's finals (which would include the 1950 match between Uruguay and Brazil that technically wasn’t a final, but decided who won the World Cup), the winning team has averaged...
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Lionel Messi and Argentina on one side. Lamine Yamal and Spain on the other.The World Cup final is finally here.Kickoff is at 3 p.m. EDT at MetLife Stadium. Argentina is seeking its fourth title, Spain its second — and could become the first nation to simultaneously hold the Worl...
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Episode: 1605 The brief race to build very tall buildings: 1885 to 1931. Today, the brief day of the first skyscrapers.
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One person was killed and eight others injured in an overnight Russian attack on Kyiv that included ballistic missiles, local authorities said.The attack began at around 1:30 a.m. local time and continued for several hours, with explosions echoing across the capital.The strikes s...
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A Southlake police officer conducting a routine traffic stop on Highway 114 leaped into action to pull a trapped driver from a burning Nissan just moments before it was engulfed in flames....
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President Donald Trump is set to present the World Cup trophy to the winner of Sunday’s final between Argentina and Spain. But to him, the real victor of soccer’s premier tournament just might be the United States.“It turned out we were a soccer country, and I think it’s going to...
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Days of heavy rain triggered dangerous flash flooding in the Texas Hill Country, resulting in two deaths and destroying multiple homes and businesses in the Kerrville area....
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The U.S. military launched airstrikes Sunday targeting Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for the killing of American troops in Jordan, further widening the crossfire between the nations as they fight over Strait of Hormuz. The strikes, now part of a weeklong ca...
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Athletics pitcher J.T. Ginn lost his bid for a no-hitter Saturday night against the Washington Nationals when Keibert Ruiz lined a clean single to center field with one out in the seventh inning.After the base hit, Ginn was removed from the game by manager Mark Kotsay and receive...
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The Bellaire community is rallying around an 18-year-old Bellaire High School student who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at Houston’s Hobby Airport.Teachers and friends identify the student as Alim Garipov, an 18-year-old originally from Russia. Ac...
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Rescuers in eastern Indonesia found two more survivors, a mother and son, on Sunday from a passenger boat that sank earlier in the week and were searching for 18 others still missing. The 46-year-old woman and her 24-year-old son were found stranded on Balaloho Island, one of the...
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Lionel Messi has quite a climb to catch Kylian Mbappé for the Golden Boot.The Argentina superstar has won just about everything in soccer except for the award for being the leading scorer at the World Cup, and he’s now two behind Mbappé after the France striker upped his total to...
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The U.S. military launched a new round of strikes on Iran on Saturday night, aiming to “swiftly punish” the nation’s Revolutionary Guard Corps for an attack on a Jordanian base that killed two American service members....
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Two suspects are facing charges in a string of car break-ins along the 8700 block of Seawall Boulevard.According to a Galveston Police Department Facebook post, the break-ins happened Tuesday and Wednesday.Investigators have found many victims on local Facebook pages and believe ...
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Court records allege a man is in custody for attacking two homeless men in brutal assaults with a metal pipe that left one of them critically hurt and the other brain-dead....
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Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a woman was killed in a shooting that was suspected to be an incident between "intimate partners."
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The H-E-B Disaster Response Unit is deploying to the Hill Country Youth Event Center in Kerrville to provide free daily meals and cleanup supplies from Saturday through Monday for residents recovering from recent devastating floods....
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Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on Saturday after British prosecutors filed another round of rape and sexual exploitation charges aimed at the brothers. A Marshals Service spokesperson told the Associated Press that the ...
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Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested Saturday in Miami as British authorities sought their extradition on rape and sex trafficking charges....
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Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Maritime Drive in the Sheldon area just after 6:30 p.m. Saturday evening.They found a woman with a gunshot would deceased at the scene.One person has been detained.@HCSOTexas deputies responded to a residence...
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The tropics have been quiet but now all eyes are on the a tropical disturbance trying to organize in the eastern Gulf. There is an upper-level low pressure area off the coast of Florida. If this low can sink to the surface, it could become our next named storm. The chances of thi...
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Operation Slowdown began July 18, and TxDOT said law enforcement will increase their presence on Texas roads to "remind motorists what a safe speed looks like."...
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A historic Vultee BT-13A emergency landing disrupted traffic in North Georgia after the World War II-era plane suffered mechanical issues
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President Donald Trump approved a federal emergency declaration for 28 Texas counties on Saturday, authorizing FEMA to coordinate disaster relief and reimburse 75% of emergency response costs following severe regional flooding....
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A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from a five-year prison sentence on the condition that he leave his country. Alcántara, 38, was greeted at the airport by a crowd that was cheering, singin...
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Kylian Mbappé moved past Lionel Messi for the career World Cup scoring record with 22 goals, scoring twice for France in a 6-4 loss to England in Saturday's third-place match.Mbappé finished this World Cup with 10 goals, two more than Messi in the race for the Golden Boot, which ...
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The family of a man killed while searching for his stolen truck spent a morning doing the community service he liked to do, calling it "Loving like Lou."...
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Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to the multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S.Products with the potential to be contaminated with the diarrhea-caus...
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France's Kylian Mbappé was in the starting lineup for his squad's third-place World Cup match against England on Saturday as he continues his chase for a second Golden Boot. That didn't seem to matter much for France, which headed into halftime trailing 4-0.With stars Jude Bellin...
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La Marque police said multiple gunshots were fired outside the home, striking the woman who was inside at the time.
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Taylor Farms de Mexico’s statement detailing the recall on its products that contained iceberg lettuce from central Mexico linked to a Cyclospora outbreak lists what is included, as well as when and where those items were sold....
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Sam Burns gets his best chance at winning a major he never planned to play.Two weeks after his daughter was born, one week after Burns changed his mind and decided to fly from Louisiana to play in the British Open, he followed his record-tying 62 with a 5-under 65 on Saturday to ...
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The ball from current Cubs first baseman Michael Busch’s first inning solo homer in a 6-2 win over Minnesota on Saturday was recovered in Wrigley Field’s right-field bleachers by former Chicago first baseman Anthony Rizzo.Rizzo didn’t catch Busch’s 12th homer on the fly, but reac...
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Forever the showman, Bryson DeChambeau high-fived a line of spectators, accepted a request for a selfie with a kid and then stopped to fist-bump a fan after leaving the driving range for his third round at the British Open.Shouts of “We love you Bryson” and “Go Bryson” followed h...
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Check your fridge. Iceberg lettuce sold in 27 states has been recalled due to potential cyclospora contamination.
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Police were initially called to Briaircliff Drive after a man was reportedly seen assaulting a woman.
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The death toll from two powerful earthquakes that shook Venezuela last month rose to 5,069 late on Friday, local authorities said.
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Smoke from the Canadian wildfires that has engulfed the Northeast in haze is expected to mostly clear from the New Jersey area just in time for the World Cup final on Sunday, thanks to thunderstorms passing through the area, meteorologists say.Warnings of unhealthy air quality re...
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Rory McIlroy saved one of his best shots at the British Open on Saturday for Bryson DeChambeau.The world No. 2 didn’t hold back when asked for his thoughts on DeChambeau’s conduct late Friday, when the American was involved in a lengthy, heated post-round exchange with rules offi...
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Police say the minor was a bystander during a fight that broke up between a group of men Friday night.
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At least a dozen attacks on health facilities and workers have been recorded during Congo's Ebola outbreak as safety fears restrict the response at the epicenter in Ituri province, authorities said Saturday. Many unpaid health workers and other frontline workers have also gone on...
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This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment....
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Officials say Yorlan Reyes fled from a Kingwood emergency room early Saturday morning.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is endorsing Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary, a day after the race was shaken up by the departure of another candidate, and just weeks ahead of the primary election.At a formal event later Saturday...
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Iran says it has suspended its commitments under an interim deal with the U.S. as the countries have exchanged strikes targeting infrastructure and military sites....
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Houston Restaurant Weeks is a multi-week event from August through September that helps raise funds for the Houston Food Bank.
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British runner Josh Kerr ran 3 minutes, 42.66 seconds to break the longstanding men’s mile world record at a Diamond League meet in London on Saturday.Kerr broke Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj’s mark of 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds, set in Rome in 1999, and the Edinburgh native then set...
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Nearly a decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a 30-year-old Democratic congressional candidate promising Georgia suburban voters he would “cut wasteful spending” and make “both parties in Washington” be “accountable to you.” His Republican opponent even complained that Ossoff “talks like a...
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According to Precinct 1, 54-year-old Artis Davis repeatedly told a Pct. 1 sergeant he was a federal agent on his way to court and needed to park in the agency lot....
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Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of an unidentified woman who was found unresponsive outside an unoccupied trailer early Saturday morning....
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America already tried permanent daylight saving time, and it lasted less than a year. Could it work now?
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Drivers in Houston and Galveston County should prepare for several road closures this weekend affecting I-10 and I-45.
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Ryan Fox added his name Saturday to the growing list of players who share the major championship scoring record when he became the third player this week with a record-tying 62 in the British Open at Royal Birkdale.Fox started early with barely a trace of wind, and he took advant...
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Islamic militants and a separatist group ambushed a Malian army convoy in the country’s hard-hit north on Saturday, resulting in the killing or capture of scores of soldiers, the rebels said.The Malian army confirmed the attack, saying in a statement that armed groups ambushed th...
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As high pressure builds just off the Coast, temperatures soar into the middle to upper 90s for the weekend.
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Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump ’s favorite political targets, a catchall foil for feckless Democrats that he could jeer at to make himself look strong and decisive.But lately, Trump’s sentiments on the 39th president have become more wistful as he faces som...
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The Associated Press surveyed more than 1,000 Jewish adults in the U.S. to better understand their views on Israel's military actions in Gaza, their opinions of the political parties and their experiences with prejudice in the United States. The survey of 1,022 Jewish adults — in...
