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University of Maryland student Dilan Shaan Ashar was found "disoriented" and "dehydrated" in the woods six days after he went missing, campus police said....
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A mother has died and an infant is in critical condition after they were pushed from a balcony in a Bronx apartment building on Tuesday.
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The FBI has seized scanning and phishing tools used by a group of hackers that officials say is associated with the Chinese government and is believed responsible for disruptive cyber operations in the United States and abroad, including against the power industry, academia and c...
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A former federal employee pleaded guilty for allegedly using his high-level security access to siphon over $100 million in government funds, using the stolen money to buy gold bullion, luxury real estate, and high-end vehicles....
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Officials believe one roommate shot the other during an argument on Wednesday afternoon.
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It began with a hijacked wedding photo shoot and turned into a very unexpected but exciting trip across the world. Ashton and Zachary Smith from Philadelphia are guests in Croatia this week after the couple accidentally celebrated their wedding in June with a crowd of joyful Croa...
parks
Coney Island Cyclones fans pack the stands at Brooklyn's Maimonides Park. They come for more than baseball. They come to see King Henry's antics.
parks
An Arizona congressional candidate says she was knocked unconscious and sexually assaulted this summer while she was repairing campaign signs overnight. Bernadette Greene-Placentia told investigators that two men raped her, and she kicked her feet up at one point to try to fight ...
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Anytime you hear the sentence, “There is a hurricane in the Gulf ...”, most of us will immediately look to see if we will, as many times before, have to start gathering supplies and literally batten down the hatches. This week, though, SE Texas will be merely a distant observer o...
business
President Donald Trump celebrated tech billionaires for their contributions to America on Thursday only hours after a company run by one of them, Microsoft, was accused by his vice president of abusing the visa system to bring in more foreign workers. It so happens five of the si...
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Texas homeowners and drivers may be seeing some relief from high insurance costs, with several companies filing rate decreases that could affect millions of policyholders across the state. What can you do if you can’t get home insurance coverage? Since July 1, most homeowners ins...
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The U.S. Army found systemic safety breakdowns behind last year’s midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a Black Hawk helicopter near Washington, D.C., and recommended changes to prevent future tragedies. The Army report — completed in May and released publicly Thu...
government
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa are statistically tied in the race to become the state's next governor, according to a new YouGov poll....
schools
During Wednesday’s Texas Senate Education Committee meeting, lawmakers hinted at possibly strengthening a law designed to give parents more control over library materials....
safety
Days after a federal immigration agent shot and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston’s Magnolia Park, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare began working to certify special visas for the men who witnessed the shooting. According to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, th...
safety
A Houston man was arrested after allegedly biting off a piece of his father-in-law's finger during an altercation, according to court records.
News
A former television news anchor has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing her mother in Kansas on Halloween.
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Hurricane Isaias is expected to strengthen as it moves toward the Gulf Coast, with the Alabama and Florida coasts potentially seeing impacts Friday evening. KPRC 2’s reporter Sandy Torres and photojournalist Heikki Mustonen will head to Pensacola ahead of the storm, where they wi...
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A security officer fatally shot a man armed with a pistol and knife Thursday near the entrance of a federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee, authorities said....
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Curtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the U.S. Supreme Court threw out his conviction and death sentence, has died. He was 56. Flowers' family confirmed that he died Wednesday at his home in Mississippi, atto...
government
Younger voters are propelling Democrat James Talarico into the lead in his U.S. Senate campaign against Republican Ken Paxton.
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An attorney for three news organizations told a federal judge Thursday that the Trump administration must be prevented from barring their reporters from the White House, saying the ban is a classic example of “viewpoint discrimination” that is punishing people for what they say —...
government
On Thursday, the HISD board is set to make a slight decrease in the tax rate official.
government
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not order a resumption of military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections in the United States. Trump, while stumping for Republicans this week, has hinted that he was confident that an endgame to the war could come i...
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Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew....
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to thread a needle on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by condemning Hamas’ “horrific war crimes” and denouncing Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. It did not go well. Instead, his comments further angered some Jewish critics who cons...
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A U.S. Army Special Operations soldier died after suffering injuries during an airborne training event in Nevada. Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Frakes, 34, was identified as the soldier....
safety
A police chief suggested a possible serial killer could be responsible for a string of deaths in Lansing, Michigan.
schools
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. As rural schools face declining enrollment, shifting learning models and growing demands on limited resou...
safety
In a statement released by the Louisiana State Police on Monday, investigators said they believe Munn-Holliday was one of the drivers involved in a hit-and-run crash in the early morning hours of Sept. 30....
schools
KPRC 2 is working on a story and wants to hear about your experience. Classrooms at Pugh Elementary reach 89 degrees Email desk@kprc.com and copy tbruck@kprc.com with: Your child’s school and grade What the problem is and how long it’s been happening Whether you contacted the sch...
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The crew splashed down off the coast of California Thursday morning after undocking from the International Space Station the day before.
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A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot by a security officer Thursday just inside the busy entrance of a federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, authorities said. The 42-year-old man tried to fire his gun but failed and then pulled out a knife around 9:30 a....
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Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew. SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Ange...
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Christa Pike's case is unprecedented: she’s believed to be the only person to ever survive two shots of lethal injection during an execution.
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A man has been charged with murder after investigators say an argument between roommates escalated into a fatal shooting in northwest Harris County. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 7, at a residence in the 6400 block of Hayman Drive. According to the Harris County S...
schools
An upstate New York county prosecutor has reopened an investigation the alleged 2024 sexual assault of a female Cornell student at a fraternity house.
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ABC News has reviewed records from Cornell's internal investigation — which began in November 2024 and lasted through May 2025.
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Cornell University has retained former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to lead an independent review of how Cornell responds to sexual assault cases....
safety
Two investigations are underway into a former Cornell University student's allegations that she was raped at a fraternity house in 2024.
safety
A day after Cornell authorities alerted students about a reported rape, campus police got an anonymous tip about Chi Phi seeking to keep the alleged incident under wraps....
Local
A teen employee was killed in a stabbing at a McDonald’s in northwest Harris County late Wednesday night, according to the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office. Deputies responded to the McDonald’s in the 13300 block of Louetta Road for reports of an in-progress stabbing. ...
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University of Missouri football player Johnnie "DJ" Jones underwent a successful heart transplant surgery, his coach says.
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Pacific Health Sciences is recalling one lot of Babies’ Magic Tea Baby Sleep Gripe Water after testing found undeclared ethanol, methanol and isopropanol in the infant dietary supplement....
government
President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to seniors for Medicare premiums.
safety
HPD said the crash involved a motorcyclist and a sedan. At some point, the sedan made a turn and hit the motorcyclist, throwing him off. Police said the driver stayed on scene but is not cooperating with the investigation....
safety
A man wanted for a 2012 kidnapping in Davenport, Iowa was arrested in California after living under an alias for nearly 14 years, according to the U.S. Marshals Service....
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Two juvenile humpback whales stranded on sandbars off New York's coast returned to open water.
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The first debate in Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race turned combative Thursday as Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed repeatedly traded personal attacks, talked over each other and even continued arguing during a commercial break. The contentious hourlon...
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The USS Lincoln carrier strike group will return to its homeport of San Diego, concluding a 10-month deployment where it played a key role in the war with Iran....
safety
Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity linked to the so-called war on drugs he waged while in office, the court announced Thursday. Duterte, 81, denies the ...
schools
With gas prices climbing, Amazon is giving Prime members a bigger break at the pump just in time for the holiday travel season. Amazon is doubling its Prime gas discount to 20 cents per gallon every Friday through Jan. 29, 2027. Abbott wants to eliminate school property taxes for...
schools
Opal Lee, a retired Texas teacher known for her activism and as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," turned 100 on Wednesday. A celebration honoring her decades of advocacy was held at the National Juneteenth Museum in Fort Worth, Texas....
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In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid....
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They're piled on river banks, lodged in uprooted trees, embedded in sediment and jammed under logs. Many are tangled in mounds of debris up to two stories high. Two years after Hurricane Helene leveled forests, bulldozed houses and filled western North Carolina rivers with everyt...
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President Donald Trump rallied supporters in San Antonio as Republicans work to shore up several competitive races across Texas, including Ken Paxton's U.S. Senate bid and Carlos De La Cruz's campaign in the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District....
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President Trump says the FBI may investigate the death of Nolan Wells, the Mississippi 18-year-old who died on a July 4th boat outing with friends.
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The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as layoffs remain low and most American workers enjoy job security . The Labor Department said Thursday that initial jobless claims ticked down to 197,000 from a revised 199,000 the week before. ...
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President Trump appeared to be trying to add context to previous remarks about Iran potentially targeting Los Angeles and San Diego.
