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Historically a Republican stronghold, Tarrant County has emerged as a key battleground as voters narrowly supported Democratic candidates at the top of the statewide ballot in recent elections....
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Tiger Woods pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge Wednesday following a rollover crash in March near his home in Florida where he initially was accused of driving under the influence. Woods appeared in a courtroom in Martin County where he agreed to the reduced charge. ...
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State Sen. Mayes Middleton spent lavishly to capture the Republican nomination and build statewide name recognition. But the most recent polling shows him just five percentage points ahead of Democratic state Sen. Nathan Johnson -- with more than a fifth of voters still undecided...
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the Trump administration Tuesday to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough,” as he pushed back against a fresh wave of attacks from Washington. Carney said U.S.-Canada trade talks could resume if Washington beca...
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Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her children, but she says postpartum psychosis led to her actions.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pressing the Army to explain why it told a unit based in Europe to stop specializing in drone warfare , an order that comes as the world's battlefields rapidly evolve and military tactics increasingly rely on uncrewed systems to fight. The ...
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The closely watched trial has featured conflicting testimony about her mental health and what role it played in the killings.
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If Kansas megachurch pastor and Democratic nominee Adam Hamilton manages to pull off an upset victory in his race for a U.S. Senate seat, he'd join a very small group. In the past 100 years, only incumbent Raphael Warnock of Georgia has accomplished what Hamilton aspires to do: s...
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Adam Hamilton has spent decades trying to bring people to Jesus as founder of the nation’s largest United Methodist church. Now he wants to bring Kansas voters to the polls as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. A first-time candidate, Hamilton faces an unusual balancing act ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in London on Wednesday to meet new Prime Minister Andy Burnham and visit the Bayeux Tapestry at its temporary home in the British Museum. The two leaders and their spouses will join King Charles III and Queen Camilla for a private viewing ...
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On Wednesday's show: We get an update on the after effects of Tropical Storm Edouard after it made its way through southeast Texas. And we discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup....
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Iran targeted Gulf allies of the United States on Wednesday, firing drones at Kuwait and Bahrain after a night of U.S. aerial bombardment of Iran. Iranian officials said one of the U.S. strikes on the country overnight struck a wedding party, leaving at least five people dead and...
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Hello, Houston.☀️ It’s going to be a wet morning, so let’s get into how you can stay dry. If you don’t know, a tropical depression is headed to our area and will likely impact your morning commute or routine. Although Edouard has downgraded from a tropical storm to a depression, ...
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Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is coming back to Houston for a Halloween concert at Reliant Stadium. Ye will bring his Ye Live Concert Tour to Houston on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, according to Reliant Park. The Houston stop is one of several newly announced U.S. date...
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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has docked in eastern Thailand after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.
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A Montgomery County man is warning others after he says he came close to paying $15,000 to callers who convinced him he had missed federal jury duty and could be arrested if he did not pay. Steve McCreight said he has received suspicious calls before and typically recognizes them...
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McDonald’s is giving Texans something the rest of the country can’t get. The fast-food chain has launched a limited-time Texas Meal, available only at participating McDonald’s locations across the Lone Star State. The meal, which launched Sept. 1, includes a 10-piece Chicken McNu...
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Dyson is bringing its high-tech approach to oral care with a new electric toothbrush that can look inside your mouth, identify gaps between your teeth, and blast them with mouthrinse. The Dyson CameraJet launched Sept. 1, marking the company’s first entry into the electric toothb...
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Russian aerial attacks overnight and during daylight Wednesday killed two civilians and wounded six in a central Ukraine city, local officials said, while the Kyiv and Odesa regions bore the brunt of Moscow's latest attacks. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified ...
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Labor Day weekend is almost here and travelers across the country are gearing up to head to the airport or hit the highway for the last vacation of the summer....
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Before they were the most-trusted hands behind Marvel’s largest epics, Joe and Anthony Russo presided over a slightly less potent assemblage of talent: the Bluth family of “Arrested Development.” Beginning with “Arrested Development” ( 14 episodes directed ) and “Community” (34 e...
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This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center . There are at least 596 operating and planned data centers across Texas, with more emerging every month, according to Texas Tribune research. To get this number, we analyzed data from Data Center Map and Cleanview, which both compi...
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Brian José Morales García had only been installing air conditioners in the Texas heat for a few months when the construction crew he was with got pulled over near Fredericksburg by a Texas Department of Public Safety officer. The routine traffic stop resulted in the 25-year-old’s...
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Edouard made landfall as a tropical storm near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana at 2:25 p.m. on Tuesday September 1st, as a 60-mph storm. The center of circulation will impact parts of southeast Texas Wednesday. Edouard is now a tropical depression and will continue to weaken as it conti...
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 3,000 people out of over 6,100 confirmed cases, the latest government data showed Wednesday, as the disease is spreading at an unprecedented speed, faster than efforts to track and slow it. Data from Congo’s Ministry of Health showed th...
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The European Union’s top diplomat said Wednesday that an attempted attack on a German airport blamed on Russia appears to be “state sponsored terrorism,” as EU countries weighed their response. The German government on Tuesday blamed Russia for the attempted attack at Leipzig/Hal...
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Bahrain intercepted an Iranian aerial attack early Wednesday, as Tehran continued to fire on allies of the United States in the Gulf region despite threats from President Donald Trump to escalate American military attacks. Bahrain, which hosts an important U.S. naval base, said i...
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Olivia Rodrigo launches her new exhibit "the cure unraveled" at the Grammy Museum, showcasing the artistry behind the music video. It's open Sept. 2, 2026 through Feb. 22, 2027....
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Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, officials said Wednesday, as search efforts continued following catastrophic floods that killed at least 1,118 people and left more than 3,900 missing. Nepal’s Foreign Ministry said 324 foreign...
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Asian shares tumbled Wednesday after stocks slipped on Wall Street and as a bond market sell-off deepened globally. U.S. futures edged higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 dropped 2.9% to 64,325.64. Market heavyweight SoftBank Group, the Japanese multinational investment holding firm which...
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Episode: 2851 The Lake Breeze Fan: Unplanned Obsolescence. Today, invention and obsolescence.
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Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice. Few Italians had an appetite for the alien predator blamed for decimating their prized Manila clams. While experiments in containment continue, inclu...
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George Clooney may be at the Venice Film Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, but he didn’t dwell just on memories and nostalgia on Wednesday. Before the award ceremony, which he plans to attend with his wife Amal Clooney, the 65-year-old actor and director addressed...
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Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, a day after telling the judge they couldn’t agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children. On Tuesday morning, the jury, then in its fourth day of deliberations,...
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The realization brought Qwynn Galloway-Salazar to tears. She was looking for civilian work two decades ago after leaving the Army Reserves, but what she saw was the disconnect between her and the panel of interviewers. As a Black woman, she didn’t fit the stereotypes of who veter...
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Shabana Basij-Rasikh smiles as she points to the sign in the middle of campus: School of Leadership of Afghanistan, SOLA, a home in Rwanda. The sign, like the campus, is virtually brand new – with classes beginning for the first time later this month. It is a declaration, but als...
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The Corpus Christi City Council voted 5-3 Tuesday night to reject, again, an almost billion-dollar water treatment plant after a decade of effort and its long-term water supply still in question. The proposed desalination plant was intended to provide a drought-proof source of dr...
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When Javion White transferred from Tulsa to the University of Houston this offseason, UH Head Coach Willie Fritz knew he was getting someone who would bring a different level of physicality to the defensive unit. Coach Fritz can’t wait to see him play in this weekend’s season-ope...
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Montgomery County is preparing for Tropical Storm Eduardo, with schools closing, government offices shutting down and emergency management crews staying overnight as the county braces for potential flooding. Despite limited storm activity so far, residents say they are staying pr...
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More than four decades after 16-year-old Laura Miller disappeared, her father faced the man prosecutors say helped cause her death. Texas EquuSearch founder Tim Miller delivered emotional testimony Tuesday in the trial of James Elmore Jr., who faces manslaughter and tampering wit...
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Texas collected $4.62 billion in state sales tax revenue in August, a 7.1% increase from August 2025, Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced on Tuesday....
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Nearly 150,000 Ford Mustangs have been recalled over concerns that a wiring issue could cause a wide variety of problems, ranging from headlights not operating to the car not being able to move....
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Two weeks after the Texas Medical Board made disciplinary action public against a local plastic surgeon, the board renewed his license to practice in the state....
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Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement. It was the second p...
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A crash involving an overturned truck on the connector ramp from U.S. Highway 59 to the North Loop on Tuesday evening is causing major traffic delays, TranStar cameras show....
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Eight hundred yards. That’s how far one fisherman on Crystal Beach managed to get his bait out into the Gulf — with the help of a drone. It was impressive to watch. It was also against federal law. KPRC 2’s Bill Barajas was out on the Bolivar Peninsula Tuesday when he came across...
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Gael Monfils stood in the middle of the court and bowed to the crowd that was treating the Frenchman to a roaring ovation on his 40th birthday. The match was still a ways from ending. But after leaping in the air to smash a forehand winner — a daredevil shot that few outside one ...
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Entergy Texas says that crews are working to restore power as nearly 70,000 customers are without power as of 7:15 p.m. Tuesday amid Tropical Storm Edouard's landfall....
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Authorities say North Loop 610 at the Eastex Freeway is currently closed in both directions after a truck hauling gravel and other items tipped over while on an overpass above and spilled contents on the freeway below. The incident happened at approximately 6:47 p.m., according t...
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The I-610 North Loop is shut down in both directions on Tuesday night in north Houston.
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On the surface, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Egypt this week is a run-of-the-mill opportunity for two countries to strengthen economic and diplomatic ties. But there is deep subtext to the meeting between Xi and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi : China, the Uni...
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The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived in eastern Thailand early Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying about 5,000 service members, approach Laem Chabang port in Chonburi province ...
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Dozens of young people gathered recently on a beach in Peru’s capital to dance, pose and show off their most creative moves — all in pursuit of one thing: aura. They were taking part in a so-called “aura battle," a real-world spin on the Internet trend known as “aura farming” tha...
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Updated guidelines now list 19 modifiable dementia risk factors, expanded from the original 12.
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An anonymous whistleblower warns an untested online system for mail-in ballots could cause severe election disruptions as a legal battle over the Trump executive order plays out in federal court....
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The Alex Eala fans came bearing Filipino flags, and wearing hats telling her to fight on (“Laban Alex”). They cheered her sizzling groundstrokes, documented her volleys and serves in photos and video, and in some cases FaceTimed with friends or family. And this was only at the pr...
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Ariana Grande’s final words, before she stepped offstage and out of the spotlight, were for her fans. Addressing the crowd during her last concert in London Tuesday before she takes a break from the public eye, the singer was full of emotion and gratitude. Grande thanked the audi...
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Officials in Texas' third most populous county voted on Tuesday to reduce polling locations by 92.
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Tropical Storm Edouard is sweeping across Southeast Texas, bringing the potential for power outages. Here's how many outages have been reported, how to view the outage map, and how to report an outage at your home....
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Vice President JD Vance said in a podcast released Tuesday that if a 2024 assassination attempt had killed Donald Trump, he would have always wondered if it was part of a conspiracy and might not have accepted even another Republican as the next president. Vance made the statemen...
