Shoppers slowed their spending in June from May, but excluding business at the gas pump, shoppers showed resilience despite ongoing economic uncertainty as they bought cars and took advantage of summer sales events.Retail sales rose 0.2% in June, after being up a revised 1% in May, according to t...
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A suspect in his 20s was shot by the owner of a pool hall in north Houston after trying to break in, HPD said.
A Cypress Kroger remained closed Thursday morning after a shooting inside the store sent two men to the hospital and left one of them in critical condition.The shooting happened around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday at the Kroger located at 20355 Cypresswood Drive.2 in critical condition after shooting insi...
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Shoppers slowed their spending in June from May, but excluding business at the gas pump, shoppers showed resilience despite ongoing economic uncertainty as they bought cars and took advantage of summer sales events.Retail sales rose 0.2% in June, after being up a revised 1% in May, according to t...
Filings for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks as U.S. layoffs remain historically low.The number of Americans applying for jobless aid in the week ending July 11 dropped by 8,000 to 208,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's well below the 219,000 n...
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Officials with the U.S. Navy's elite Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron said they're conducting a review after social media footage showed a jet flying low over a crowd of beachgoers in Pensacola Beach, Florida.
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Tropical development is possible in the eastern Gulf. Tropical Storm Elida has formed in the Pacific.
The heavy downpours that have led to street and area flooding this week have moved out with drier, hotter conditions arriving just in time for the weekend. A few showers and storms can't be ruled out Thursday afternoon though.
Good morning, Houston.☀️Let’s get right into some news of the day this morning! Authorities are investigating multiple shootings that happened in the past 24 hours throughout the Houston area. See the sections below to see what we know. As always, follow us for the latest on Click2Houston.com and...
Houston has endured several soggy days as deep tropical moisture fueled repeated rounds of heavy rain across Southeast Texas. Rainfall totals over the past three days have generally ranged from 1 to 5 inches, with isolated amounts above 6 inches near Bay City. Although a few more showers remain p...
On Thursday's show: We recap calls to investigate last week’s shooting by an ICE agent in Magnolia Park. And we discuss the state of transportation in the region.
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A 70-year-old pool hall owner shot a suspected intruder Thursday after police say the man charged at him with a crowbar during an apparent burglary attempt in Houston’s Acres Homes area.The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Thursday at a pool hall in the 7200 block of North Shepherd Drive near Mill...
Deputies are investigating a reported shooting that left one person injured early Thursday in northwest Harris County.According to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office, deputy constables responded to the 21000 block of Brushy Canyon Drive around 1:28 a.m. after receiving reports of an aggr...
A 70-year-old pool hall owner shot an intruder early Thursday morning after the man allegedly charged at him with a crowbar during a break-in attempt on the 7200 block of North Shepard.The incident happened around 2 a.m.Houston Police Department Lt. Wilkens said officers responded to a shooting s...
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.TEXARKANA — More than a dozen East Texas counties are working to create a groundwater conservation district that would prev...
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest the ouster of his youthful defense minister — seen as an innovator of the country’s successful drone technology but who clashed with the traditional military establ...
The British government on Thursday urged FIFA to investigate Argentina's team after players posed with a banner claiming sovereignty over the contested Falkland Islands.Argentina beat England 2-1 in a World Cup semifinal on Wednesday in Atlanta.During post-match celebrations, Argentine players he...
Japanese communications company Fujitsu is leading a major push in artificial intelligence using Nvidia’s technology, bringing together what it said was the best in Japan’s manufacturing prowess in robotics with AI.The technology area known as “physical AI” refers to smart, futuristic robots that...
Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion. It also raised its annual r...
Computer chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom are slumping again Thursday and weighing on stock markets worldwide. They're drowning out strength for most of the rest of Wall Street, leaving U.S. stock indexes close to flat. The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged, a day af...
An Italian court on Thursday convicted the former CEO of Italy's main highway operator and 29 others in the 2018 Genoa highway bridge collapse that sent vehicles plunging and killed 43 people, a disaster that exposed serious lapses in the maintenance of Italian infrastructure. Dozens of family me...
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More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said Thursday.According to preliminary information, the two boats left Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in late June carryin...
Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday. Neill's family had earlier announced the actor known for “Jurassic Park,” “The Piano” and other films died Monday in Sydney.His agen...
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