Mark Zuckerberg made a deal with Meta's board to help him pay a proposed California tax on billionaires without losing his ownership stake in the company he founded, according to regulatory filings published this week. If passed by voters in the Nov. 3 election, the measure would levy a one-time...
schools
The Texas Comptroller's office is refusing to release records showing how families are spending taxpayer-funded school voucher dollars, ABC13's partners at the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday....
government
Voters are leaving “I Voted" stickers at Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s Houston memorial as recent ICE encounters draw scrutiny.
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Voters in Brazoria County Precinct 2 received text messages falsely claiming that votes for the late Republican candidate, Judge Richard Davis, would not count in the general election....
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Carmen Turner allegedly hired two tax clerks with county funds, only to employ them as caregivers for her 81-year-old mother. She’s also accused of hiring the father of her adult son for a full-time job in Fort Bend, when prosecutors said he was working in Chicago....
parks
A New World screwworm infestation has been confirmed in a hunter-harvested female elk in West Texas, prompting wildlife officials to urge hunters and landowners to watch for signs of the parasite as hunting season gets underway. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) rece...
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Tennessee execution team members failed multiple times to establish working IV lines in Christa Pike’s arms before her attempted execution and warned that some of her veins may have ruptured, or “blown,” before she was injected with pentobarbital, her attorney wrote in a court do...
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The New York Giants know better than to underestimate the Houston Texans entering Sunday’s matchup even though they’ve won just two games this season. That’s especially true with the way C.J. Stroud is playing. Stroud was the AFC Offensive Player of the Week after throwing for 31...
business
For the first time, Fort Bend County taxpayers got to see how much the county is willing to give up to attract a Tesla solar site.
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El Salvador deployed 100 special forces soldiers to Haiti on Thursday to help rescue four missing soldiers from the Central American country who recently came under attack by gangs, two officials told The Associated Press. The special forces arrived a day after Salvadorean Presid...
schools
Jay Wright saw the direction college basketball was headed four years ago, when the transfer portal began to reshape the way teams were constructed, and abruptly retired after leading Villanova to a pair of national championships. Some would argue the chaos has only gotten worse....
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The New York City Council voted Thursday to ban horse-drawn carriages, a move that will end an industry that has operated in the city since 1858.
