A deluge of 90,000 rubber ducks poured out of a truck and into the Chicago River on Thursday, then bobbed along a stretch of the skyscraper-lined river in the annual Chicago Ducky Derby that raises thousands of dollars for charity. The truck dumped the ducks from one side of a half-raised bridge....
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WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is heading to Texas to campaign with Johnny Garcia, who is running in a redistricted San Antonio-area congressoinal seat that Democrats believe they can win, according to a person familiar with the campaign. Jeffries, who is pois...
government
Fifth-generation Kansas farmer Glenn Brunkow describes this time of year as “go time,” when farmers are combining fields, hauling crops to town and moving livestock from summer pastures to their winter homes. But this harvest season, they’re doing it with diesel prices more than ...
business
Elon Musk on Monday pledged to give one share of his company SpaceX to “every kid in America” next year. The offer arrived a day after artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced in a social media post that it will commit 5% of its shares to a new “public benefit” fund. I...
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Today at 10:30 a.m., cocktails through the ages, wings by popular demand and schooling that bends to the student. FOUR BROTHERS AMERICAN ALCHEMY MENU The show opened on location at Four Brothers at Omni La Mansión del Río, 112 College St., where the bar team walked through Americ...
safety
Saudi Arabia says it has executed 2 Bangladeshi nationals over “indecent acts” inside a mosque in Mecca. Bangladesh said it had not been informed of the executions beforehand. Meanwhile, Israeli police have arrested 10 suspects in connection of a wave of settler violence, includi...
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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels struck a military camp for government forces in southern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 20 soldiers, Yemeni military officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the recent surge in fighting. The rebels fired ballistic missiles on the al-Alam...
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The U.S. Air Force has identified the service member who died after falling while rappelling from the Alamodome ceiling during a pregame ceremony before Saturday night’s UTSA football game against the Navy. Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, a Tactical Air Control Party instructor assigne...
government
Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton was recognized by leaders at a North Side church during Sunday service that will become an early voting location Monday, amid calls from voting rights advocates for Bexar County elections to not use the site as a polling place. Paxton posted a...
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Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys know they’ve dug themselves a hole with their slow start. The Cowboys (2-4) believe they still have what it takes to turn things around. “We’ve just got to go get a win,” Prescott said after the Cowboys’ 23-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers on S...
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Halley Froehlich was sure she'd spend her scientific career in the United States. Her family has been in America since the 1700s. But over the past two years, delayed federal grants and fears about the future motivated her to pack her life into boxes. She moved to Finland with he...
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In June, as public opinion on data centers soured, Gov. Greg Abbott took his first big swing at reining in the industry, issuing a round of regulatory recommendations to the Legislature that included his call to end a major tax break for the facilities. Donors with ties to the da...
safety
Amid growing privacy concerns over Flock cameras, a Texas man has asked a federal appeals court to toss out his armed robbery conviction and 60-year prison sentence, arguing that the AI-powered camera system gives law enforcement more surveillance power than the Constitution allo...
