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Russia attacked facilities of Ukraine’s Naftogaz Group 13 times over the past week and has targeted its premises almost 300 times since the start of the year, the state energy company said Monday. Russia has repeatedly battered the Ukrainian power grid since its all-out invasion ...
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Panettiere, star of "Heroes" and "Nashville," died at 36, her representative told ABC News.
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On Monday's show: We discuss the latest state school ratings and questions about reading proficiency at some HISD schools. And we mull over the reasons people, industry, and venues are moving from the core of the city outward....
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The Houston Texans continue training camp after coming off their 27-7 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers last Thursday. They are now preparing for their busiest week of camp. Starting Tuesday, the Las Vegas Raiders will be in town for a joint practice following by preseason game nu...
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South Korea on Monday expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula, as U.S. President Donald Trump's order to cut military exercises with South Korea caused concerns it might hurt the allies' readiness ag...
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Hello, Houston.☀️ It’s a new week, and I hope your students are getting settled back into school and their routine. Before we get into the breaking news of the day, let’s talk about the weather... It’s going to be HOT this week. So, if you have kiddos who have outside activities ...
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Early Week Forecast: High pressure continues to bring a hot, humid, and dry weather pattern that looks to stick around beyond Monday. Houston won’t get an opportunity for rain until late in the week, and the chance is only around 20%. Temperatures will climb into the upper 90s, w...
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The Houston Astros had the national stage on Sunday night but fell to the Seattle Mariners 3-2. The victory gave the Mariners the series win while extending their dominance over the Astros this season. The Mariners are 9-2 against Houston, with more games to come later in the sea...
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A late-June U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively allows the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status from any nationality. That puts more than 100,000 TPS recipients in Texas at risk of being expelled from the country....
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Austin Current is a nonprofit local news organization supported by The Texas Tribune, reporting on Austin government, education and community. Sign up for the Current’s free newsletter here . On a hot August afternoon, Marcus Martin walked out of the Travis County Correctional Co...
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DALLAS — Texas cities have floated unusual proposals to slash their spending as they face yawning budget gaps, from laying off employees and charging non-residents higher zoo ticket prices, to asking voters to reconsider public funding to a new arena for the San Antonio Spurs. Th...
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Iran said Monday it is working to finalize a joint statement with Oman on a plan to manage the transit of ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway to commercial shipping has been a key demand of the United States, but it remains unclear whether the deal wi...
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Cristiano Ronaldo says this Saudi Pro League season is likely to be the last of his professional career. The 41-year-old superstar’s contract with Riyadh club Al-Nassr, signed in December 2022, expires next June, and he has told Vogue magazine that another is unlikely. “This is p...
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Mideast negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner was meeting Monday with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the premier rejected the 15-point, U.S.-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza. In the latest round of meetings, the U.S. is angling for ...
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The deal that U.S. President Donald Trump signed at Versailles in June set an ambitious 60-day deadline for ending the war with Iran and reaching an accord on its nuclear program . The deadline was Monday, and the two sides are further apart than they were then. Talks, such as th...
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Shares were mixed in Europe and Asia on Monday after U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high following a weaker than expected report on the U.S. economy. Oil prices slipped. In early European trading, Germany's DAX was nearly unchanged at 26,429.59, while the CAC 40 in Pa...
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Episode: 3400 In which we cause water to, like a Hell-broth boil and bubble within a nuclear reactor. Today, For a charm of powerful trouble …
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Thousands of people were still waiting for aid on the Indonesian island of Flores as the country celebrated its 81st Independence Day on Monday, days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 54 people, injured dozens and damaged hundreds of homes and other buildings. Many resi...
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The fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a dark Florida road was a “targeted ambush” hatched by his ex-wife and her husband, following years of post-marriage strife over religion and how to raise twin children, a prosecutor told jurors Monday. Jared Bridegan, 33, was k...
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Sporting red-white-and-blue sneakers and a matching bedazzled manicure ahead of Florida's primaries on Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz smiles and tells voters she is “running for reelection to Congress.” That’s true — with a caveat. Wasserman Schultz is seeking her 12th te...
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The attacks began on a July weekend and have continued for a month, stretching from Moscow and St. Petersburg, to cities in the south, and eastward to the Ural Mountains. The targets weren't oil refineries, maritime hubs or arms plants hit by other Ukrainian strikes, but warehous...
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Opening statements are set to begin Monday in the trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur, kicking off weeks of testimony that will revisit what happened on a Las Vegas nearly 30 years ago. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is charged with murder with a deadl...
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Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus changes to how th...
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Andrew Garfield wants audiences to look up from their phones and remember that there is still plenty of magic in the world around them. That idea drew the two-time Oscar nominee to “The Magic Faraway Tree,” a family adventure about Tim, a stay-at-home father whose family is force...
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Hayden Panettiere, star of popular television series including “Heroes” and “Nashville,” has died. She was 36. Panettiere’s father, Skip, announced the actor’s death in a statement provided to ABC News on Sunday. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of ou...
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A Humble ISD elementary school is celebrating a dramatic turnaround after improving its state accountability rating from an F to a B in just one school year. Jack M. Fields Elementary posted a 24-point increase over its 2025 score—the largest year-to-year gain among Humble ISD ca...
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Blocks away from NASA's Johnson Space Center, a new monument titled "Earth Rise" is bringing some of Space City's hidden heroes into the light.
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The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal crash on N State Highway 6 tonight. The single vehicle crash happened just before 6:30 p.m. this evening on Highway 6 just north of Clay Road in the Cypress area. Investigators say the adult female driver is deceased. A ...
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President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial — in the spot where he had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration . Trump made the accusation in a social media post on Sunday w...
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The lawsuit filed by the family of the "Revenge of the Nerds" actor says his death was preventable, claiming the psychiatric care team did not take proper measures to prevent self-harm....
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Von Miller is set to sign with his hometown Dallas Cowboys and doesn't even want to wait a week for the team to get back from training camp in California before joining the club. The NFL's active leader in sacks has agreed to a one-year contract for what will be his third team in...
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One person was killed while two others were taken to the hospital after a crash in west Harris County on Sunday evening, authorities said.
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There's certainly a good case to be made that Diana Taurasi is the best player in WNBA history. For Phoenix Mercury fans, that case is already closed: She's undeniably the G.O.A.T. Taurasi was inducted into the Mercury Ring of Honor on Sunday at halftime of a game between the Mer...
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President Donald Trump cited his “very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un when revealing the U.S. would scale back its role in military exercises with South Korea....
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As the Rice University football team enters the 2026 season unranked, the players face demands at one of the nation's highest-rated universities for academics....
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A football coach and teacher in Wharton County were killed in a crash Saturday.
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East Bernard ISD is mourning the deaths of Athletic Director and Head Football Coach Jeremy Jenkins and his wife, Brandy Jenkins, a teacher at East Bernard Junior High School. According to a message from Superintendent Courtney Hudgins, the couple died in a car crash Saturday eve...
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East Bernard ISD officials said that their Athletic Director and Head Football Coach, Jeremy Jenkins, and his wife, Brandy Jenkins, a teacher in the district, were killed in a car accident....
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Scottie Scheffler was back to his dominant form Sunday, turning a two-shot lead into a runaway in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He closed with a 4-under 66 for an eight-shot victory, the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind. Scheffler ended nearly seven months w...
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The Houston Zoo said its veterinary team is treating Rhossi, a sea turtle that was found and rescued on a Welsh beach in 2023, before releasing him back into the Gulf....
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Jack Whaley blinked back tears as he clutched the U.S. Amateur championship trophy and could only think of the countless times his father kept encouraging him, kept playing golf with him, all to urge a promising teenager on the cusp of quitting the game to stick with it for bette...
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President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said South Korea declined to help denuclearize Iran. Trump said in a social media post that the exercises slated to begin this week...
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Days of severe storms and flooding across Indiana have left at least six people dead, including a 4-year-old boy, as swollen rivers inundated communities....
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The latest D23 news and updates on Villains Land, Piston Peak National Park, Tropical Americas, and more coming to Walt Disney World's theme parks.
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When looking back at the FIFA World Cup 2026 games here in Houston, one topic everyone kept mentioning was how beautiful the stadium looked with a full grass field instead of the usual synthetic turf. The Houston Dynamo’s Director of Sports Turf & Grounds, Dan Bergstrom, was part...
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Rodri, Spain’s World Cup-winning captain, appears to be heading back to Spain after Manchester City and Barcelona reached an agreement over the midfielder’s transfer. The clubs have agreed to a deal for Rodri worth 76.5 million euros ($88.5 million), a person with knowledge of th...
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South Korea’s dog meat restaurants are in the peak of their final busy season as the country’s ban on the slaughter and sale of dog meat takes effect next year....
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Emergency crews are on the scene of a major crash involving a motorcycle on the Sam Houston Tollway, local authorities said Sunday afternoon.
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Traffic cameras captured several deputy patrol cars blocking all southbound lanes of the freeway near Richey and removing a person from a vehicle, taking them into custody....
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An investigation is underway after a motorcycle crash on Beltway 8 near Gessner Road on Sunday afternoon, causing all eastbound lanes to be shut down, authorities said....
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A 35-year-old man faces multiple felony charges after stealing a deputy’s patrol vehicle and leading law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit that ended in a rollover crash, authorities said....
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The makers of Lacnola Lactation Granola recalled certain pouches because of fears they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
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Colombia's president has asked his ally Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 289 people....
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Three goals for three lost finals. Cameroon finally won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over tournament debutant Malawi. Marie Ngah Manga headed two goals and Naomi Eto scored the other while Cameroon kept Malawi’s Chawinga sisters in check to claim...
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A church service in Houston was disrupted late Sunday morning after reports of gunfire near a church in southwest Houston, according to a churchgoer who reached out to KPRC 2. The Houston Police Department said the shooting happened at 14109 South Post Oak Road. HPD said the call...
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Former major league pitcher Tommy John, the namesake behind the elbow surgery that prolonged his career for 14 more years, has died.
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An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing "30 to 40" people in Gaza each night.
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A fire broke out late Sunday morning at the original Mia’s Table restaurant in Houston, damaging the kitchen area before firefighters brought the blaze under control, officials said....
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Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83. He died at his home in Bradenton, Florida, on Saturday night, agent Mik...
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Hurricane Lala has weakened to a tropical storm after skirting Hawaii without making landfall, but it's not done punishing the Big Island with hurricane-force gusts....
