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KFAR RUMMAN, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s air force carried out two airstrikes early Monday on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 12 people and wounding others, including children, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite a truce reached more than [...]
The exhibit, called "Every Step Remembered," uses pairs of shoes to represent lives lost to suicide in Williamson County.
Hispanic Heritage Month kicks off across the United States on Sept. 15. The celebration runs through Oct. 15, but the month-long celebration used to only be a week long. President Ronald Reagan expanded the celebration to a month in 1988.
The Supreme Court refused to clear the way for President Trump’s mail-in voting plan for the midterms on Monday over the dissents of two conservative justices, keeping intact a judge’s block that declared the plan unlawful.
For the second time in two weeks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday said migrants were found in locked train rail cars in the South Texas border down of Del Rio.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is widely expected to lift its short-term interest rate Wednesday for the first time in three years to fight stubbornly high inflation, a move that would put the central bank at odds with President Donald Trump's support for a cut. A quarter-point increase in the Fed's rate, currently about [...]
What staff find while cleaning out hydrothermal areas at Yellowstone National Park can be surprising, and they shared all of it, from common to funny to just plain weird.
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility were confined to outdoor cages just slightly larger than phone booths for more than an hour at a time.
The bad news? We'll likely break a record with today's heat. The good news? Temperatures tick down a few degrees for the rest of the week. -Meteorologist Kristen Currie
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump's bid to restrict mail ballots for the midterm elections, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they’ve used for years and have accounted for nearly [...]
After criticism from Republican leaders including Dustin Burrows and John Cornyn, Railroad Commission candidate Bo French defended social media posts targeting a group of UT Austin students, insisting his comments were about policy, not race.
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- A Colombian national, who is known by his alias "El Calvo," pleaded guilty in court on Monday, Sept. 14 in El Paso for his role in what federal authorities are calling a "dangerous human smuggling conspiracy" that left 40 migrants and two boat captains missing at sea. Luis Enrique Linero [...]
Pushback to the AI vehicle surveillance systems operated by Flock Safety has grown on both sides of the aisle.
Child advocates, pediatricians and mental health experts urged Texas lawmakers on Monday to expand online safety protections for children.
A Travis County grand jury indicted Ernest Ferniz on six counts of tampering with a governmental record with intent to defraud or harm, a state jail felony.
