FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS QUIET TODAY: We’re on repeat... cool morning, warm afternoon WEEKEND: Patchy AM fog Saturday, more clouds on Sunday TUESDAY RAIN CHANCE: Showers possible FORECAST QUIET TODAY/FRIDAY While afternoon temperatures are climbing, the mornings have remained comfortable. That’ll be t...
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The International Criminal Court and officials working at the tribunal have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, an official said Thursday. The award came just days after the Trump administration announced sweeping new sanctions on the ICC as part ...
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Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries listened from the front row at the old Ohio church as the Sunday congregation heard of scripture’s guidance for calming a gathering storm. “Wind, hush!” the speaker advised, describing the power to bring about change. Jeffries nodded along, the w...
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EDINBURG — In years past, the march toward Election Day brought discord to Carlos Cancino’s home in Edinburg. “My wife and I used to get into big old arguments during the elections, because she doesn’t like Trump,” Cancino said. “And I was a Trump supporter. We used to literally ...
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In the moments leading up to the Republican-dominated State Board of Education finalizing a rewrite of social studies lessons this summer, Will Hickman proposed a minor change. A majority of board members had preliminarily approved a requirement that public school students learn ...
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio opened a new $55 million Public Health and Education Building, which will serve over 1,200 students working toward degrees in education, public health and medicine. TAMUSA opens new $55M public health and education building was first posted on Oct...
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French authorities in multiple cities banned protests planned across the country on Thursday after a weekend of clashes and widespread looting in France's most violent unrest in years. The turmoil in Paris and other French cities has prompted a strong security response from the g...
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Seven oil tankers caught fire or were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz overnight after being hit by Iran or striking naval mines, Tehran said Thursday, a markedly high number as tensions wind upward over concerns about a return to all-out war. With days before Israel’s close elect...
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Subtropical Storm Josephine pushed north from the U.S. Northeast coast early Thursday, bringing some coastal flooding and possible gale-force winds to the Eastern Seaboard. The storm had maximum sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph) and was centered about 265 miles (425 kilometers)...
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Russia bombarded Kyiv with ballistic missiles in an hourslong nighttime barrage, and the Russian military said Thursday that its air defenses intercepted 808 drones fired by Ukraine at Moscow and other cities, in attacks that dampened new hopes of progress in ending the war . At ...
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Iran's state television reported on Thursday that seven oil tankers were either struck by attacks or hit naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz overnight, possibly the largest single-day number of vessels damaged in the waterway since the Iran war started on Feb. 28. Here is the lat...
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Women plan street demonstrations in more than 20 Polish cities and towns Thursday to protest the lack of access to free and legal abortion . They're accusing Prime Minister Donald Tusk's liberal government of failing to fulfill its promise to relax Poland's strict abortion laws, ...
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A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday, days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car. Nunchucks are a weapon used in martial arts consisting of two sticks or rods...
