Pakistan said it carried out airstrikes early Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier, a sharp escalation in recent fighting between the two countries that threatens international mediation efforts. The airstrikes struck so...
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A Democratic congressman said Wednesday that a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas and then taken to a detention center has been told by a specialist he needs surgery to remove the bullet still lodged near his spine. U.S. Rep. Greg Casar visited a federa...
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County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are preparing for voting to begin in the midterm elections. The problem, whic...
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A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from the White House grounds, ordering early Thursday that CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have their access restored. It's the latest development in an escalating showdown between Trump and medi...
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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election , according to provisional results announced by the Interior Ministry early Thursday. Meanwhile, the governing National Assembly of Independents, known by its French...
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Asian shares were trading mixed in Thursday trading, as investors tried to digest the recent swings in oil prices and the U.S. bond market. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.8% to 65,513.99, as some chipmakers got a boost from the recent interest in artificial intelligence. A...
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Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have no shortage of difficult issues to cover when they sit down for talks on Thursday at the White House. China has resisted the Trump administration's urgings — and economic threats — to use its considerable leverage to prod Iran to agree ...
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The Trump administration said Wednesday it would set aside $7 billion for loans to support energy, mining and infrastructure projects in Argentina, its latest move to secure energy and critical minerals closer to home and back the South American country's libertarian president. T...
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A Briscoe Elementary School teacher is under investigation by law enforcement and Child Protective Services after an incident on campus, according to the San Antonio Independent School District. The alleged incident was reported to the Texas Education Agency, SAISD said. The dist...
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Shohei Ohtani got a hit in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup on Wednesday night after missing two weeks with right biceps discomfort. He went 1 for 4 with two strikeouts and a walk while batting second as the designated hitter against the San Diego Padres. “He looked ...
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Decked in red, more than 50,000 people flowed into the Alamodome Wednesday night for a Bruno Mars concert. Many had spent hundreds of dollars on their tickets, and those looking for last minute tickets to the sold-out show were confronted with re-sale prices in excess of $1,400 f...
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Houston ISD administrators directed some campuses to cut staff and slash spending a month into the school starting, as the district confronts the mounting financial pressure of enrollment losses three years into a state takeover. On Monday, The Texas Tribune published an investig...
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Meta is going all in on a consumer-friendly AI agent and pushing forward with AI-powered wearable devices during a moment in the industry when its CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged it is a “wild time to be building.” At the company's annual Connect conference on Wednesday, Zuckerb...
