The week in politics (July 1, 2026)
On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And foodies discuss their favorite places for happy hour food and drink.
On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And foodies discuss their favorite places for happy hour food and drink.
Recent reporting and curated coverage across every beat we cover.
Here are the best 4th of July 2026 furniture sales to shop right now.
The average price for regular unleaded gasoline in Texas is $3.30 per gallon, according to AAA.
Traffic in the area was backed up to Fry Road as crews worked to clear the 18-wheeler crash that happened just after 5 a.m Wednesday, HPD said.
Abbott previously outlined a broad regulatory framework around data centers amid backlash from rural communities around their impact on residential neighborhoods.
The tropics remain relatively quiet for the end of June and heading into July.
Increasing moisture levels will lead to higher rain chances as we head into July.
President Donald Trump's administration looked to the Supreme Court to greenlight its sweeping hard-line immigration agenda and, by and large, it got the backing it was looking for with one key exception — birthright citizenship. After lower courts repeatedly ruled against the Trump administratio...
Mexico defeated Ecuador 2-0 on Tuesday night to break a 40-year drought without a win in the knockout stage and progressed to the World Cup round of 16.
As Texans head to the beach and lakes this summer, health experts are urging swimmers to take extra precautions against a rare but potentially life-threatening infection caused by flesh-eating bacteria.Doctors say one of the most important ways to protect yourself is to avoid swimming if you have...
The matchup versus Bosnia-Herzegovina represents the U.S. men's team first knockout game following the group stage.
The Fourth of July forecast is looking very familiar for Southeast Texas: hot, humid, and only slightly damp at times.After several rounds of rain in recent weeks, Houston is settling back into a more typical summer pattern. That means warm, muggy nights, steamy afternoons, and only isolated show...
Good morning, Houston.☀️We have so much breaking news to get to, so let’s do it. We are currently working on breaking news scenes throughout the Houston area this morning. The first, a crash on the Katy Freeway that has shut down multiple lanes and killed two people. The second incident was on Hi...
On Wednesday's show: We discuss the latest developments in politics in our weekly roundup. And foodies discuss their favorite places for happy hour food and drink.
Naomi Osaka had a new look to show off before winning her second-round match at Wimbledon. Osaka, whose fashion reveals have become an event of their own at Grand Slam tournaments, wore a less elaborate outfit for her walk-on than the “Kill Bill” inspired kimono she sported for her opening-round ...
Two people are dead after an 18-wheeler overturned onto a vehicle, causing the car to catch fire Wednesday morning on the Katy Freeway, according to the Houston Police Department.The crash happened around 5 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of I-10 Katy Freeway near State Highway 6.Construction halted ...
At least six people were killed and many others injured on Wednesday in a fire at an apartment block on the outskirts of the Belgian city of Antwerp, police said.The blaze was caused by a technical failure on the ground floor of the building, where more than 200 people live in 80 apartments, in t...
One person is dead, and two others are in custody after a police chase involving a stolen vehicle ended in a crash early Wednesday morning in west Houston.According to Lt. Willkens with the Houston Police Department, officers were pursuing a stolen vehicle around 4 a.m. when the chase ended in a ...
One of the stars of the American firmament once advised citizens of all stripes how to express their love of country. Mark Twain's long-ago words capture how Americans are stepping out this week to wish their nation a happy milestone birthday.“Our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete,” Twain...
The Pearland Police Department says it has identified the suspect accused of assaulting and robbing a 79-year-old man outside a Walgreens earlier this month.Police announced Tuesday that the suspect has been identified as a juvenile. Officers are continuing their investigation and are working to ...
Trump brushed off his loss after the Supreme Court rejected his attempt to end birthright citizenship -- rooted in the 14th Amendment
This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization.Nearly two decades had passed since the storm. For many, the memory of what had happened on Goat Island had largely vanished into the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, what residents remembered that y...
KERR COUNTY — Alicia Baker can’t bring herself to clean her daughter’s bedroom.Eleven-year-old Madelyn “Emmy” Jeffrey left a pile of craft supplies on the floor in their San Antonio home before heading off to the Guadalupe River with her grandparents, where they drowned in the flood last Fourth o...
2 were killed and dozens injured after a bus carrying a Royal Jordanian crew from JFK to a hotel crashed on the Long Island Expressway in New York City.
President Donald Trump will visit North Dakota on Wednesday to see the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, a massive facility exploring the 26th president's life, built in the rugged, lonely landscape where the young easterner built his conservation values while ranching and hunting in the 1...
A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vessel was identified as a foreign container ship, with no other details.The report appeared aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait, which th...
Mourners gathered Wednesday in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore to bury 14 schoolchildren who were killed when the roof of a tutoring center collapsed on Tuesday. Police are investigating whether negligence during ongoing construction work caused the collapse that left another eight children inj...
Angelica Mundrain wants the bodies of her son, niece and nephew to be pulled from the rubble of her flattened beachfront apartment. She has spent every minute of the past six days waiting for the heavy machinery needed to remove the slabs of concrete and twisted metal that trapped them. So have o...
Ice. Urgently and in large quantities.At a Paris-region hospital, emergency medics needed it to plunge patients into cold-water baths to speedily bring down their temperatures so they wouldn't join the growing tally of dead from a record-smashing heat wave. But lacking an ice-making machine, wher...
Turkey is rolling out sweeping security measures for the upcoming NATO summit, deploying tens of thousands of police and placing air defenses on high alert, while banning public gatherings and imposing controversial restrictions on freedom of expression and assembly.That's meant to safeguard the ...
Episode: 3264 David Hockney, Digital Painting, and Art’s Technophobia. Today, painting with pixels, in the hands of a master.
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Last month, the Education Department announced it would offload oversight of special education to ...
Six people who pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration and shooting outside a Texas immigrant detention center are set to be sentenced Wednesday. Other protesters have already been sentenced to decades behind bars, including a former Marine who was handed a 100-year prison term.A pol...
A group of traditionalist Catholics directly defied Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday by consecrating four bishops without his consent, dismissing the resulting excommunications and saying the break with the church was necessary to defend the Catholic faith.The Society of St. Pius X, which opposes modern...
The lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.Fuel rationing has been introduced in many regions, with hourslong queues of c...
It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there rem...
In Kimberley Kausen’s home, a passed “sell by” date on a jug of milk means different things to different family members. For her daughter, it means the jug belongs in the trash. For her husband, it means the milk is still good for a few more days.Kausen, a chef and cooking teacher in Irvine, Cali...
Standing in front of a large group of football players, Ramon Chinyoung reminded them about what’s possible when you dream big and work hard.Chinyoung is rising on the NFL coaching ladder. His roots are in Houston, though, at the high school football level as the head coach at Willow ridge.Now, C...
When Morocco advanced to the Round of 32 in the FIFA World Cup 2026, Madiha Bekkali knew she wanted her son to see them play in person and bought tickets to the game in Guadalajara, Mexico, against the Netherlands. Friends of hers told her not to waste her money and to wait until Morocco reached ...
A 38-year-old man from Magnolia faces a murder charge in connection with a woman found dead inside a vehicle in League City, police said.
A young employee was killed and a customer was injured after a vehicle crashed into a building in Atascocita on Tuesday, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office
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