Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday shielded another migrant aid group from deeper questioning as part of a growing Republican-led investigation into organizations that help immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ruled the aid group Team Brownsville was not required to take part
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Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas judge on Thursday shielded another migrant aid group from deeper questioning as part of a growing Republican-led investigation into organizations that help immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border. District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble ruled the aid group Team Brownsville was not required to take part
Continue Reading The Texas Tribune If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing concern for the state’s top officials. Homebuilding in Texas didn’t keep up as the economy
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is an organization that feeds nearly 1,600 families per day. These families can go get food for a variety of reasons. “Actually for me, I’m a senior citizen, it’s real hard you know, for whenever we get our social security.” Manuel Estrella told us. Denise Aguirre,
Continue Reading SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — A man left by his group of office coworkers to complete his final push to the summit of a Colorado mountain became disoriented and fell multiple times during a night on the mountain in freezing rain and high winds. Chaffee County Search and Rescue officials said in a Facebook post that
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By Katherine Dillinger, CNN (CNN) — Two deaths from West Nile virus have been reported in Wisconsin and one in Illinois, the first such deaths in those states this year, according to the state health departments. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that it has received reports of 18 deaths from
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Andrea Saint Martin (CNN Español) — La presidenta electa de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, rechazó este jueves que tener mayoría oficialista en el Congreso represente el inicio de una dictadura. Desde afuera de su casa de transición, Sheinbaum aseguró que el partido Morena siempre ha luchado por la democracia y en contra de los fraudes electorales.
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After 12 weeks in space, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to return home from the International Space Station on September 6 — albeit without its two-person crew. The troubled spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory around 6 p.m. ET, and it will spend about six hours maneuvering
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EL PASO, Texas – The Franklin volleyball team is off to a strong start this season. The Cougars had a great showing at a state tournament in New Braunfels over the weekend. The Cougars finished second in the tournament after losing the championship match to the number one ranked team in Class 6A, Dripping Springs
Continue Reading Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he made “an honest mistake” in failing to correct a White House fellowship application 18 years ago when he wrote he had received a Bronze Star for his military service in Afghanistan that he never ended up receiving. Moore released a statement Thursday after
Continue Reading Associated Press The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a Jewish family had the free-speech right to blanket their yard with signs decrying hate and racism after their next-door neighbor hurled an antisemitic slur at them during a property dispute 10 years ago. The court ruled Simon and Toby Galapo were exercising their rights under
Continue Reading Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ecuador’s government says it has started dismantling infrastructure on a controversial oil drilling block in Yasuni National Park, just as Friday’s court-imposed deadline for completion looms. The Ministry for Energy and Mines said in a statement Wednesday evening that it shut one of 247 wells in the 43-ITT block
Continue Reading OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Five members of an alleged burglary ring are facing federal charges for break-ins that targeted rural pharmacies in western Iowa and western Nebraska in 2022 and 2023, authorities announced Thursday. The Omaha, Nebraska, field division of the Drug Enforcement Administration alleged that the five are part of a larger conspiracy that’s
Continue Reading AP Golf Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Scottie Scheffler started the Tour Championship with a two-shot lead based on his dominant season. And then he looked dominant as ever Thursday, posting the best round at 6-under 65 to build a seven-shot lead and take a huge step toward the FedEx Cup title. Scheffler had five birdies
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By Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — The US Navy rescued two Iranian mariners in distress last Friday in international waters, US Central Command said in a news release. Sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group, which is operating in and around the Gulf of Oman, rescued the Iranian civilians from the water. The
Continue Reading AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two 18-year-old men charged with killing former “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor have pleaded not guilty. Robert Barceleau and Sergio Estrada entered the pleas in a Los Angeles court Thursday to charges of murder, grand theft and attempted robbery. Wactor was fatally shot when he interrupted thieves stealing
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on firearms at the State Fair of Texas, one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations. Fair organizers earlier this month announced a ban on guns after a shooting last year on the 277-acre (112-hectare) fairgrounds in the heart
Continue Reading DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a ban on firearms at the State Fair of Texas, one of the state’s biggest annual celebrations. Fair organizers earlier this month announced a ban on guns after a shooting last year on the 277-acre (112-hectare) fairgrounds in the heart
Continue Reading By Aaron Pellish and Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump said Thursday he will implement a policy as president that would pay for in vitro fertilization treatments, without specifying how the treatments would be paid for. “I’m announcing today in a major statement that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for, or
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — A former police officer in Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to five years in prison for fatally shooting a 27-year-old man who had been sleeping in the driver’s seat of a car stopped at a traffic light. Former Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Enis Jevric pleaded guilty in February to involuntary manslaughter and
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By Logan Smith Click here for updates on this story Colorado (KCNC) — A Colorado warehouse worker was convicted Thursday of enriching himself by collecting the pay of “fake” co-workers and then arranging the killing of the supervisor who discovered the plot. Jerrelle Smith, 44, was found guilty of murder and racketeering charges by an
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Español) — Haidee Viviana Aceves Pérez obtuvo este jueves el segundo lugar en la carrera de 100 metros dorso clase S2 de la paranatación femenina y le dio a México su primera medalla en los Juegos Paralímpicos de París 2024. La deportista mexicana –originaria del estado de Jalisco– ganó la medalla de plata
Continue Reading By Ashley Sharp Click here for updates on this story SOLANO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — The Solano County Sheriff’s Office has launched the Doe Cold Case Project, focusing on unsolved crimes in the county where the victim’s body has never been identified. New eyes and new technology are leading to new discoveries already within the
Continue Reading KOVR By Ashley Sharp Click here for updates on this story SOLANO COUNTY, California (KOVR) — The Solano County Sheriff’s Office has launched the Doe Cold Case Project, focusing on unsolved crimes in the county where the victim’s body has never been identified. New eyes and new technology are leading to new discoveries already within
Continue Reading SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador is nearly 2½ years into a state of emergency that has suspended key civil liberties. But President Nayib Bukele says the security advances achieved during that time are now sustainable without it. Bukele tells Time magazine in an interview published Thursday that “In the near future, we
Continue Reading By Antonella Francini, Emmanuel Miculita, Anna Chernova and Zahid Mahmood, CNN (CNN) — French prosecutors told CNN they have requested more information from Switzerland over allegations that Telegram founder Pavel Durov conducted “acts of violence” against one of his children. Irina Bolgar, the former partner of the Russian-born billionaire and the child’s mother, made the claims
Continue Reading Rocío Muñoz-Ledo (CNN) — El consumo de marihuana y alucinógenos “se mantuvo en niveles históricamente altos” entre los adultos más jóvenes y de mediana edad en Estados Unidos en 2023, de acuerdo con la más reciente encuesta de “Monitoring the Future”, un estudio realizado por investigadores de la Universidad de Michigan desde 1975 y financiado
Continue Reading AP Business Writer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dispatching errors and the failure of two backup systems allowed a Union Pacific train to slam into 74 railcars that had been parked on a side track for nine months in Southern California in 2022. That’s according to a National Transportation Safety Board report issued Thursday detailing what
Continue Reading By Jay Sirkin Click here for updates on this story WAUWATOSA, Wisconsin (WTMJ) — Wauwatosa police released body-cam video of an incident at the center of a TMJ4 Lighthouse investigation. It shows what led officers to tase a 37-year-old man at a cemetery last May. Johnny George went into cardiac arrest and became unresponsive after
Continue Reading AP Pro Football Writer FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Dak Prescott has his No. 1 receiver back, and a plea from CeeDee Lamb for the Dallas Cowboys to get his quarterback signed beyond this season as well. The $136 million, four-year contract that ended Lamb’s long holdout also begged the obvious question of whether Prescott was
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