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Volkswagen reported weak sales numbers on Friday, a day after the giant German automaker announced plans to slash the number of models by nearly half as sales plunged, particularly in China. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company said group sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter to ...
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His championship belts draped over each shoulder, boxer Jermall Charlo, the pride of Alief, made it abundantly clear.Charlo, a 34-0, undefeated former middle weight and super middleweight champion, fights Koen Mazoudier on July 25 in Sydney, Australia as part of the undercard of ...
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The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed while driving on the Grand Parkway near FM 529 early Friday morning.A 19-year-old man was shot and killed while driving on the Grand Parkway in west Harris County Friday morning, accor...
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Last December, after Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities that his agency would pursue, including protections against harmful chemic...
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Texas baseball fans will have plenty of familiar names to follow during the 2026 MLB All-Star Weekend in Philadelphia this weekend. Players from major and minor league teams across Texas are taking part in events ranging from the MLB All-Star Futures Game with some of the brighte...
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The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won’t be attacked anymore, senior U.S. officials said Friday, adding that internal Tehran power struggles have made it difficult to reach and kee...
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The annual Guns N’ Hoses charity hockey game returns Saturday at Ice Skate Memorial City, raising money for a firefighter battling cancer while drawing attention to the rink’s planned closure.A longtime Houston tradition is returning to the ice this weekend, but organizers say th...
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The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling. The EU's executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against Meta Platfor...
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The Harris County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after two people were shot during a parking lot takeover in northeast Harris County early Friday morning.Deputies were called around 1:25 a.m. Friday to the area of Eastex Freeway and Little York Road after reports of a shooting...
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When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions.It also highlighted the complex engineering behind adaptive reuse pro...
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A man was arrested after allegedly cutting his brother’s throat during a family disturbance and refusing to surrender, leading to a SWAT response.The man has since been charged with aggravated assault of a family member. Harris County Medical Examiner rules death of Lorenzo Salga...
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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.Stephen F. Austin State University will phase out its Early Childhood Laboratory over the next few years b...
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When Texans linebacker Jamal Hill sprinted down the field to cover a kickoff against the Arizona Cardinals last December, there was no stopping him.Hill accelerated at top speed before delivering a textbook tackle on Jalen Brooks. The force of the hit dislodged the football with ...
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China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country's space program, state media said.The first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform in the sea, t...
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Many Jewish adults feel unsafe in the United States, a new AP-NORC poll finds, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research points to how Jewish ad...
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Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March filed a lawsuit Friday against the vessel’s operator over labor rights violations and unfair dismissal.The ship, the Mayuree Naree, was hit by a projectile north of Oman on March 11, killing th...
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U.S. stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.The S&P 500 rose 0.4% to close out its fourth winning week in the last five. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 149 points, or 0.3%, and the N...
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A wildfire roared through a remote expat community in southern Spain overnight, killing at least 12 people as victims tried to flee the flames in cars and on foot, authorities said Friday. Eight people were injured and 23 missing, Andalusia’s regional leader Juan Manuel Moreno sa...
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As dusk settled over Gurdaspur's fields, villagers gathered in the courtyard of a Sikh temple to watch a movie that has been blocked by Indian officials.“Satluj” tells the true tale of a human rights activist who investigated thousands of disappearances and extrajudicial killings...
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After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil.In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation where any slip-up could h...
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A powerful typhoon was heading toward China's east coast Friday, the latest in a series of deadly storms that have already claimed 50 lives this week in two other parts of the country.Typhoon Bavi, with maximum sustained winds of 155 kph (96 mph), was first expected to pass north...
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Ashleigh Hallam teaches English as a second language at her local library in Indiana. Soccer is now teaching her Spanish as a second language.For her, this World Cup couldn't make more sense.Hallam is among a sizable number of English-speaking people in the U.S. who are doing som...
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On Friday, a group of retired judges stepped off a tour bus in a ritzy Michigan suburb after three days of barnstorming through corn fields, cities and coal towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They carried with them a message.In courthouses and public squares, they marked the nation'...
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The stars of Disney's live-action adaptation of "Moana" were in Washington Heights for the New York premiere on Thursday night.
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Newly obtained surveillance video is providing the clearest look yet at the moments leading up to the deadly ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston’s East End, as new details about where he was shot and expert analysis raise additional questions about what happened.Thi...
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Records show Steven Henry has been charged with arson and tampering with physical evidence in the death of 39-year-old Adrean Arrington, whose body was found shot inside a burning vehicle....
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Lamar Consolidated ISD will open its new Career and Technical Education (CTE) Center in Rosenberg next month, designed to help prepare students for careers after high school. Lamar CISD to open new CTE Center in August District and local leaders say the new center will connect st...
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Surveillance video is helping to paint a clearer picture of what happened in the moments leading to Tuesday's deadly ICE shooting.
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Three defendants charged with violent felony offenses are now wanted after being released on personal recognizance bonds following competency restoration at Vernon State Hospital. Breaking Bond: 3 defendants released on PR bonds now wanted after missing court Defendants found in....
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Marking the coordinates on a handheld GPS, an Israeli diver threw an anchor into the water as another quickly chucked an orange buoy beside it. Cramped on the boat's bow, the first team assembled their gear, put on wet suits and tested oxygen tanks before jumping in. But after ho...
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Lorenzo Salgado's family was photographed with DA Sean Teare following the shooting of their father by an ICE agent on Tuesday.
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The 52-year-old Houston man fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this week was not the target of the agency’s operation, said U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, who has called for release of any video footage capturing the deadly episode.Garci...
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Season 22 of "Project Runway" welcomes a new group of designers hoping to make a name for themselves in the fashion world,
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Residents showed up to Harris County commissioners court to voice their concerns and demand that officials cancel contracts related to Flock safety cameras....
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Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in much of Asia.But delivering soybean curd in all shapes and textures is only a small slice of her mission. And it’s just that. A mission.More than simply a v...
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A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturns a lower court decision th...
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A Houston city councilmember is proposing a local ordinance to penalize people with unsecured loads on their vehicles.
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was not the intended target in an ICE enforcement operation that ended with Salgado Araujo being fatally shot on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia’s office told KPRC 2 Thursday.The information comes around the same time the Department of Homeland Security (D...
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A high-stakes legal and political power struggle over who holds the lawful authority to lead Fort Bend County reached a boiling point Thursday, as competing factions traded public challenges ahead of critical upcoming budget hearings. The growing crisis has effectively split the ...
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You may want to have an umbrella ready if you're going out and about over the next few days. Houston weather: Wet weather days possible Friday, this weekend JULY HEAT CONTINUES Highs have climbed into the mid 90s today with heat index values reaching the triple digits. A......
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The defendant in Charlie Kirk's killing told his roommate "he wishes he hadn't done it" the day after Kirk was shot in the neck while speaking to a crowd at Utah Valley University, according to a recording played in a Utah court Thursday....
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The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences has released its report following the deadly ICE shooting in East Houston that took the life of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Houston ICE Shooting: Medical Examiner lists cause of death following shooting According to the report, Lorenzo...
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The fight over who should lead Fort Bend County has brought county business to a standstill, and experts said it could get worse.
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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.MISSION — A historic chapel that served as the basis for the city’s name will no longer lie behind a borde...
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The Harris County Medical Examiner has ruled the manner of death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo a homicide.Records from the medical examiner’s office shows Araujo died from a “penetrating gunshot wound of the torso.”A ruling of homicide from the medical examiner is not the same as in ...
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See what's in store at Disney's San Diego Comic-Con activations, including immersive experiences, major panels and more.
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The fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE agents in east Houston this week left many in the city’s immigrant community shaken, and with questions. Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national whose family said had lived in Houston for more than 30 years, was shot Tuesday morning ...
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A Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday.The Democratic congresswoman, whose district includes the ...
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Hear from young siblings from California's Central Valley who play the roles of a villager and young Moana in the new live-action film.
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A woman has been arrested and is now facing felony charges after police say she helped kidnap a man at gunpoint outside of a southwest Houston nightclub....
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Two days after a federal immigration agent fatally shot a man during what the government called an enforcement operation in Houston’s East End, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed there is no body camera footage of the incident. DHS blamed what it called “back-to-b...
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In the days following the shooting, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's family has called for an independent investigation into the case and said they have not heard anything from the Department of Homeland Security or ICE....
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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expands immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump’s second administration, several fatal shootings involving ICE agents have drawn national attention.The latest happened on July 7 in Houston, where 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgad...
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There is no state law that specifically guarantees A/C to renters, but for a lot of you, a broken A/C isn't just uncomfortable; it's a major health and safety hazard....
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A Waller County judge sentenced Ronald Brandyburg to life in prison Thursday for the 2020 murder of Brookshire resident Clifford Richard. Man gets life sentence for 2020 Brookshire murder Judge Gary W. Chaney of the 506th Judicial District Court imposed the sente......
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Kylian Mbappé shook off a missed penalty kick to score his eighth goal of this year's World Cup, helping France beat Morocco 2-0 and reach the semifinals for the third time in a row.Now Les Bleus have to hope he can overcome an injury that had him summoning for help and leaving t...
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Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare confirmed that they are conducting an investigation in connection to the deadly ICE shooting that occurred earlier this week. Houston ICE Shooting: Harris County DA says they'll be conducting an investigation According to a statement fr....
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FOX 26 has learned from new information following the deadly ICE shooting that occurred earlier this week in East Houston. New info on ...
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A Houston-area 6-year-old is already making waves in junior golf after becoming the youngest golfer to qualify for the Under Armour Junior Tour Summer Nationals.Hudson Guidry started swinging a golf club at just 6 months old, his parents said. By age 2, they had him evaluated by ...
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A suspect in custody for a deadly shooting at an Atascocita home has now been charged for another deadly shooting, according to the Harris Coun...
