The leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult linked to the deaths of more than 400 people was sentenced on Friday to 200 years in prison for the murders of 191 people. The High Court in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa issued the sentence for Pastor Paul Mackenzie. He was convicted of murdering 190 childr...
A man was shot and killed by a San Antonio police officer after pulling a gun, while another man shot himself following a chase on the far West Side, according to Chief Jesse Salame. The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Friday at Lone Star Parkway and Wild Pine, not far from A...
Japan has protested to Moscow after Russia placed four subsidiaries belonging to Japan Tobacco Inc. under the temporary management of a Russian company and demanded that the measure be withdrawn immediately, Japanese officials said Friday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara to...
Latino voters moved sharply to the left in the midterm elections , propelling Democrats to an improbable electoral sweep in Texas and in battleground House races from coast to coast. It's a remarkable pivot for a demographic that had shifted toward President Donald Trump just two...
The European Union accused TikTok of breaching the bloc's digital rules because its algorithm recommends users a nonstop stream of personalized videos including those that it says could hurt mental health and body image. The short-video sharing platform must change the design of ...
Officials across Europe reported more bomb threats against multiple flights on Friday, following a string of hoaxes that have caused flight diversions this week. No suspicious items were found and no one was injured, but the threats have raised concern because they came as Europe...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS BREEZY & NICE TODAY: Mostly sunny, with highs in the mid-70s SATURDAY: Increasing clouds, chance of light rain late after 2pm SUNDAY: Rain likely, cool, cloudy, & damp FORECAST BREEZY & NICE TODAY A front blew through overnight, giving us breezy conditions. We...
The Texas Republican Party for decades has credited its policies for the “Texas Miracle” that is the state economy, which has grown faster than that of every other major state over the past 25 years. Throughout the campaign and in the hours following Election Day, those same Repu...
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. Associations representing oil companies in Texas said they would welcome Jon Rosenthal to work with the i...
Over nearly 12 years as governor, Greg Abbott transformed Texas into a national model for state-led immigration enforcement, spending billions of dollars to deploy National Guard soldiers, arrest migrants and build border barriers while repeatedly testing the limits of state auth...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his government is seeking specific guarantees from Western allies on how post-war security support would function when the nearly five-year war sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion of his nation finally ends. Zelenskyy's comments in...