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. HOUSTON — As executive director of the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council, Barbie Brashear has directly...
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Facing a yawning budget gap, San Antonio’s city council will consider raising the city’s tax rate for the first time since 1992. The city’s plan to close a projected $158 million deficit over the next two years involves a mix of cuts, shifting around funds, raising fees, and a pa...
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After the routing they delivered in the 2024 election, Texas Republicans were on a roll, pushing through conservative priorities , drawing redder congressional maps and excising Democrats from legislative leadership positions. What a difference 18 months can make. With November f...
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Books that educators and researchers often call “mirror books” are those that reflect a reader's own experiences, identity or culture and can be used to encourage reading and support family literacy....
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS ISOLATED RAIN: A lucky few will see a downpour; brief, heavy possible STAYING HOT: Any hope for a cool-down next week has gone away FIRE UPDATE: Two large fires now burning west of SA FORECAST ISOLATED RAIN, MORE CLOUDS TODAY Good news: we did NOT hit 100° on ...
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South African police said Thursday a ninth woman’s body has been discovered in an area east of Johannesburg, and said it could be linked to a series of killings they are investigating. All nine bodies were found in the Ekurhuleni municipality over the last two months, raising con...
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King Charles III is meeting Thursday with senior leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia to discuss artificial intelligence and make a plea to ensure the technology remains in the service of people and the planet. The gathering in Scotland, which includes Brita...
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Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body say they have found “reasonable grounds” to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. The international fact-finding mission on ...
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Chinese technology giant Huawei launched new chip technologies in a challenge to global leaders such as Nvidia that highlights the narrowing gap between China and the U.S. in artificial intelligence . Huawei's announcement Thursday at its annual key conference in Shanghai came ju...
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A Russian barrage of missiles and drones targeting Ukraine's capital and the surrounding region injured at least 19 people overnight and into Thursday morning, authorities said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces carried out overnight strikes against targets in R...
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World shares mostly advanced on Thursday despite Wall Street closed lower following the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike decision for the first time in three years. The quarter of a percentage point increase brings the Fed’s key rate to a target range of 3.75%-4.00% , as it a...
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The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates unchanged Thursday even though inflation in the United Kingdom has risen to a five-month high as the fallout from the Iran war continues to ratchet up fuel prices. Economists expect a majority of the nine-member Monetary Poli...
government
It's a challenging time for Russia to hold a parliamentary election, even one whose outcome is all but assured. The economic and political climate has been seriously affected by 4½ years of full-fledged war with Ukraine. Swarms of enemy drones have inflicted massive damage on Rus...
