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YMCA of Greater Houston promotes water safety for children to prevent drownings this summer
Similar swimming lessons for all ages are available at YMCA locations across the greater Houston area.
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Houston weather: Hot, humid and hazy as Saharan dust moves into Texas Monday
A strengthening ridge of high pressure is in control, bringing hot temperatures, fewer clouds, and no rain. The high pressure will move east into the Midwest and East Coast for 4th of July weekend, boosting temperatures above average from Chicago to Baltimore. As the high pressur...
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Impact of immigration ruling (June 29, 2026)
On Monday's show: We discuss how last week’s Supreme Court decision allowing the president to end the nation’s Temporary Protected Status program might affect families, businesses, and industries across Greater Houston....
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Kara Swisher took Silicon Valley by force. Now she's eyeing influence in the 2028 campaign
Kara Swisher is everywhere.She's filling in for Joy Behar on ABC's “The View.” Appearing alongside Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada 2.” Starring in a CNN documentary. Preparing a national tour. And churning out four podcasts most weeks featuring long-form interviews and com...
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Play is underway in ideal conditions on the opening day of Wimbledon
Play is underway in the 139th edition of Wimbledon.Among the early matches on the opening day of the grass-court Grand Slam: Fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula beat Darja Vidmanova 7-5, 6-3; rising Spanish teenager Rafael Jodar, in his Wimbledon debut, beat Felix Gill 6-3, 6-3, 7-5; an...
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Luigi Mangione due in federal court for pretrial hearing; jury selection plans expected
Mangione, 28, has pleaded not guilty to both state and federal charges stemming from the December 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel....
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2 Newsletter: Saharan dust returns this week. What you need to know if you have allergies
Good morning, Houston.☀️I hope you’re having a beautiful Monday morning. It’s the start of a new week, and idk, I feel really good about it. Let’s get right into some news of the day. We currently have one of our reporters headed to a breaking news scene where two men were shot w...
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Star-maker Clive Davis to be honored at funeral. Here's how to watch
The life and influential career of record executive Clive Davis will be honored at his funeral Monday. Davis' memorial service will be closed to the public but it will be livestreamed.It is not yet known which stars will attend to pay their respects to Davis, who launched the car...
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Comcast plans to split into two public companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky
Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The company said Monday that its board and management team think each company will be better positioned to pursue its own strategic priorities, invest for growth ...
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1 dead, 1 injured after shooting in northwest Harris County
Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a shooting left one man dead and another injured in northwest Harris County.The shooting happened Monday morning in the 7700 block of W. Little York Road, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators said two ...
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Construction worker killed in work-zone crash on Gulf Freeway
A construction worker was killed Sunday night after being hit by a work vehicle in a construction zone along the Gulf Freeway, according to the Houston Police Department.The crash happened around 11 p.m. on the southbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway near the Dixie Farm Road exit.De...
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Brazil and Japan face off in Houston as FIFA World Cup Round of 32 arrives; road closures in effect
The FIFA World Cup knockout stage arrives in Houston on Monday as Brazil and Japan square off in a highly anticipated Round of 32 match at Houston Stadium. Kickoff is set for noon.FIFA World Cup’s Round of 32 is the first knockout round of the tournament. The stage features the 3...
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Israeli strike hits a tent in central Gaza, killing 3, including a child
Israeli forces struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, medical officials said. Health authorities in the coastal enclave said the drone strike hit a neighb...
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Americans' pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find
Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation's military and its political influ...
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Andy Burnham says he'll deliver a circuit breaker to transform the UK economy if he becomes leader
Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a “circuit-breaker” for the sclerotic British state.The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime...
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Iran's president says $6B in frozen assets in Qatar to be released as US talks challenged
Iran's president said Monday that $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets would be released by Qatar, as negotiations with the United States were challenged by attacks across the Persian Gulf this weekend. Masoud Pezeshkian 's mention of the funds appear aimed at selling the Iranian ...
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Thousands of immigrants got scammed by an attorney exploiting humanitarian visas, lawsuits say
An attorney in Washington state promised “miracles” to tens of thousands of immigrants seeking legal status in the United States.Instead, Alexandra Lozano created fake stories of domestic abuse and human trafficking to apply for humanitarian visas without her clients' knowledge, ...
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Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials say
Overnight ground operations and strikes by Pakistani forces have killed at least 36 civilians and injured more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the neighbors further escalated. One Afghan official said the attacks would be met with retaliation.Pa...
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A long-awaited Australia-Vanuatu pact blocks China from building a military base
Australia and Vanuatu signed a long-awaited bilateral security and economic treaty Monday that prevents China creating a military base on the South Pacific island nation.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed the so-called Nakamal Agreement with his Vanuatu counterpart...
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China imposes export controls on 40 Japanese entities as tensions with Tokyo rise
China imposed new export controls Monday on 40 Japanese entities it says are contributing to the country’s “remilitarization,” as tensions with Tokyo continue to rise.Twenty Japanese entities, including multiple divisions of Mitsubishi Corporation, have been placed on a control l...
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Asian shares are mixed as tech stocks in Japan and South Korea extend losses
Asian markets were mixed on Monday and U.S. futures advanced after stocks on Wall Street steadied with only modest losses last week. Benchmarks in Japan and South Korea recovered most of their earlier losses in a day weighed on by more selling of artificial intelligence-related s...
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Europe's record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries and left families in distress
Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more? With...
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The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3384: Alien Life Forms
Episode: 3384 Further thoughts about the search for extra-terrestrial life. Today, Alien life forms.
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A Chinese dissident recounts his perilous dinghy escape to South Korea and how he got to Canada
A roughly 40-hour sea journey on a dinghy with a dying phone. Detention in South Korea. That’s just part of what Chinese dissident Dong Guangping endured to escape his native country. He arrived late last week in Canada, a destination he had eyed for more than a decade. Dong had ...
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Alex Murdaugh's true crime saga continues as he heads to court for hearing on murder retrial
Alex Murdaugh will be back in court again Monday on charges he killed his wife and son, appearing at a pretrial hearing that will likely be short on substance but long on spectacle as the true crime sensation continues to captivate.Murdaugh’s murder convictions and sentence of li...
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The Supreme Court nears the end of its term with momentous cases about Trump's power to be decided
The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump's expansive claims of presidential power.Trump's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, fire the heads of most independent agencies at will and remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor are am...
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Deputy killed while helping at crash scene becomes latest victim on dangerous stretch of I-45
A 24-year-old Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office deputy is being remembered for her dedication to public service after she was struck and killed while directing traffic along Interstate 45 early Sunday morning.Deputy Erika Serrato, a six-year veteran of the sheriff’s office who h...
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Red Sox rally past Yankees 5-4 in 10 innings to complete 4-game sweep after Gray loses no-hit bid
Jarren Duran singled home the winning run to cap a three-run rally in the 10th inning after Boston blew a two-run lead in the ninth, and the Red Sox finished a four-game sweep of the rival New York Yankees with a 5-4 victory Sunday night.Boston starter Sonny Gray took a no-hitter...
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NBC bumps Yankees-Red Sox to stay with golf as Scheffler forces playoff
It is rare that a New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game gets preempted for anything, especially on network television. That was the case though Sunday night due to a rain delay at the PGA Tour's Travelers Championship, and with Scottie Scheffler in contention.An NBC Sports spokesm...
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Toddler dies after being found unresponsive in swimming pool in northeast Harris Co., HCSO says
A toddler was found unresponsive in a swimming pool and later pronounced dead in northeast Harris County, the sheriff's office said.
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Toddler dies after being found unresponsive in swimming pool in Huffman area, HCSO says
A toddler has died after being found unresponsive in a swimming pool in the Huffman area, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.Deputies responded to the 500 block of Lago Trace Drive after receiving a report of an unresponsive toddler in a swimming pool at around 6:10 ...
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Red Sox pitcher Sonny Gray loses no-hit bid against Yankees in 8th inning
Red Sox pitcher Sonny Gray lost his bid for a no-hitter against the New York Yankees when Amed Rosario singled with one out in the eighth inning Sunday night.Rosario grounded a clean single up the middle on Gray's 97th pitch against his former team. Boston holds a 2-0 lead.Gray s...
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300 free A/C units distributed to Precinct 4 families, commissioner says
Commissioner Lesley Briones and her team distributed the A/C units to pre-selected Precinct 4 families as part of the Cool 4 the Summer program.
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A rights group warns Vietnam is ramping up arrests under broad laws to crush dissent
Vietnam is increasingly using broadly written laws to arrest activists, dissidents and others that authorities consider a threat to the Communist Party's rule, according to a new analysis released Monday by a human rights group. The 88 Project, which focuses on rights issues in V...
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Scheffler makes clutch putt to force Monday playoff against Hovland in Travelers Championship
Scottie Scheffler made an 8-foot par putt on the 18th hole Sunday and pumped his fist with more emotion than he showed all day, just for the right to return Monday at the rain-delayed Travelers Championship to face a sudden-death playoff against Viktor Hovland.The final round was...
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Haeran Ryu wins the Women's PGA Championship for her first major title
Haeran Ryu recovered from a rough start to secure her first career major title, winning the Women's PGA Championship by two strokes over Ina Yoon on a windy Sunday at Hazeltine National Golf Club.Ryu shot a 2-under 70 to finish at 13-under 275 and become the sixth South Korean to...
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Houston pride parade rescheduled for August
The parade was postponed earlier this month due to storms.
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Teams scramble to locate survivors four days after Venezuela earthquakes
Local and international rescue teams raced against the clock to pull survivors from the rubble in Venezuela four days after two powerful earthquakes shook the northern state of La Guaira....
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Canada set to play in Houston's final FIFA World Cup 2026 match
Houston's Round of 16 match will be the city's final match for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
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Montgomery County deputy Erika Serrato killed on North Freeway
A 24-year-old Montgomery County sheriff's deputy was killed early Sunday morning after a commercial truck struck her while she was directing traffic at the scene of an alleged DWI crash on Interstate 45, authorities said....
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From the rubble in Venezuela, an unexpected story of survival cuts through days of tragedy
A mix of rescue teams and civilians on Sunday peered at a mountain of rubble almost indistinguishable from the other ruins lining swathes of the northern Venezuelan coast following two devastating earthquakes. In the days since Wednesday's devastating 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, search t...
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Canada beats South Africa 1-0 in World Cup's first knockout match on late goal by Stephen Eustáquio
Stephen Eustáquio scored in the second minute of second-half stoppage time, and Canada beat South Africa 1-0 on Sunday for its first knockout match victory in a World Cup.A tense match at SoFi Stadium appeared to be headed for extra time until Eustáquio — who plays professionally...
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Pakistan says it carried out ground operation, strikes along Afghan border, killing 29 militants
Pakistan announced that its security forces have carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, followed by “calibrated strikes” against terrorist hideouts and safe havens in the border region, killing 29 militants. There was no immediat...
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Trump says his renovation plans for a golf course will have Washington hosting a 'major' tournament
President Donald Trump on Sunday surveyed several of his construction projects around the nation's capital, suggesting afterward that his redevelopment of the East Potomac Golf Links would enable it to host a premier tournament.“When completed, this Course will have the ability t...
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Money can't buy success in World Cup for gulf nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar that poured a fortune into soccer and infrastructure experienced unceremonious exits from the World Cup, proving that big money doesn’t guarantee success on the sport's biggest stage.Saudi Arabia is out at the earliest point. Again. Bott...
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3 firefighters die fighting Snyder Fire near Colorado-Utah border
The fast-moving flames of a wildfire burning near the Colorado-Utah border claimed the lives of three firefighters and injured two others who had huddled inside emergency shelters to escape the blaze....
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Harris County immigration defense funds paused by Texas Supreme Court
The state Supreme Court granted a "temporary relief" motion filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton against Harris County's Immigrant Legal Services Fund" (ILSF)....
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Lindsey Vonn has a special understanding of Serena Williams' comeback as a fellow 40-something
When Serena Williams played her first professional tennis match in nearly four years recently, another elite female athlete in her 40s was on hand for the occasion.Skier Lindsey Vonn has a special understanding of what Williams is going through as she prepares to play both single...
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Woman shot near downtown Houston, suspect fled, police department says
A woman was shot near downtown Houston while the suspect fled the scene in an unknown vehicle, according to police.
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Man killed outside Houston Heights bar, suspect on the run
Police say a gun was pulled during an altercation outside Heights Drive Inn early Sunday.
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South Korea coach quits after early World Cup exit prompts fierce criticism from president
South Korea coach Hong Myung-bo resigned Sunday after the team's quick elimination from the World Cup drew a harsh condemnation from the country's president, who called the coach “incapable” and ordered a complete review of the national team program. South Korea won its opening m...
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Most Texas Hill Country summer camps reopen one year after deadly floods
Nearly one year after catastrophic flooding devastated the Texas Hill Country, most of the region’s summer camps have welcomed campers back, marking a significant milestone in the area’s long recovery.After the Storm: The flood that changed the Hill CountryRoughly 15 camps in the...
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Power outages in Fort Bend County neighborhoods due to knocked down power lines, Precinct 1 says
According to the Fort Bend County Precinct 1 Constable's Office, there are reported power outages in Jordan Ranch, Tamarron, and Firethorne West due to lines knocked down on Woods Road....
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Inside the World Cup knockout stage bracket: Some teams have an easier path than others
If the World Cup was the NCAA basketball tournament, then teams like Morocco and the Netherlands would have some serious anger toward the selection and seeding committee right now. England, Mexico, Portugal and Spain might not be all that happy, either.Lionel Messi and Argentina,...
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Heat wave and high humidity will blast much of the eastern US this week, meteorologists say
A long and dangerous heat wave will blast a large swath of the central and eastern United States this week, the National Weather Service said, with temperatures rising ahead of the July Fourth holiday and feeling even hotter because of the high humidity that's arriving with it.Al...
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Man shot, killed by roommate at University Place home
Police say the suspect and victim lived at the Vassar Street home where the shooting took place.
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Dwayne Johnson is "protective" of 'Moana' live-action because "the animated film was so good"
Dwayne Johnson explains why he's "protective" of live-action "Moana!" 🏝️🍿🌊
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In blow to DC Studios, 'Supergirl' is no match for 'Toy Story 5' at box office
In a setback for Warner Bros.′ revamped DC movie operations, “Supergirl” was absolutely no match for “Toy Story 5” at the box office, opening a distant second to the Pixar blockbuster. After a near-record debut for an animated movie, “Toy Story 5” remained No. 1 at the box office...
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Nearly 1 million bottles of heart and kidney medication recalled over foreign substance
Nearly one million bottles of heart and kidney medication have been recalled nationwide over the possibility of a "foreign substance," according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....
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Skydiving plane crashes in northeastern France, killing all 11 people on board
A skydiving plane has crashed in northeastern France, killing all 11 people on board.