AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks that are intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.

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Houston ICE shooting updates: Protesters turn out for vigil to slain father

ICE and the FBI are investigating after a Mexican citizen was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston's Magnolia Park on Tuesday.

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He met his wife at Camp Mystic. Decades later, he lost his granddaughter there

What happens when the place that shaped your life breaks your heart?

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Empower Pharmacy faces few consequences despite years of FDA quality violations

Even after numerous FDA warnings, the agency hasn’t stopped Empower Pharmacy from producing drugs at a scale rarely — if ever — seen in the compounding pharmacy industry.

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Exclusive: Houston mayor's adviser pulls $127K salary while absent from work

Chris Brown, a senior advisor for Mayor John Whitmire's office, has swiped into city facilities on 13 days total in a period of 600 days and sent less than 1 email per week, records show.

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Talarico for Senate: Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton's moral rot

In the Senate contest between Ken Paxton and James Talarico, both Republicans and Democrats should prefer a servant leader over a self-serving crook, writes the Editorial Board.

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Corpus Christi likely to face emergency water restrictions this fall, staff says

The city's residents and massive petrochemical industry could soon be forced to cut water use by as much as 25% amid an historic drought.

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Property taxes too high? Protest them yourself using customized data

Protest Houston-area property taxes in Harris County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County with TX Tax. Use HCAD appraisal district data to build your case.

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Why Camp Mystic is pulling its application to reopen this summer

The Texas Hill Country retreat is stepping back out of respect for grieving families and state lawmakers who cited concerns about the camp’s safety.

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Residents push to protect abandoned Black cemetery in northeast Houston

The city has placed a stop-work order on the site while relevant parties figure out next steps.

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The Black American Culinary Framework

A living culinary canon archiving and exploring Black American foodways through interactive maps, foundational techniques, and curated resources.

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Mother Nature didn’t kill my Chloe. Camp Mystic’s bad decisions did.

Nine months after the flood, the camp’s pattern of failure is clear.

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@kenduque's finished Circuits #900

Re-imagined mainstays like the daily Crossword Puzzle, modern classics like Really Bad Chess and SpellTower, and even a few brand new puzzles.

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Artemis II live updates: NASA fixes light termination system issue

The Artemis II mission will test NASA’s new Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft with a crew aboard, laying the groundwork for future missions that aim to land astronauts on the moon.

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The American job market is broken and Black women are paying the price

Black women are often the first to experience unemployment, and remain unemployed longer than other workers. In 2025, an estimated 300,000 lost their jobs.

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How the Artemis II rocket will get NASA astronauts to the moon and back

NASA’s Artemis II mission will send four astronauts around the moon. Here’s how the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft will work.

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‘No Kings’ protests: Demonstrators rally against Trump administration in Houston

Organizing group 5051 said the estimated crowd size was slightly smaller than previous No Kings rallies.

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You think Caitlin Clark is amazing? You should have seen Comets' Sheryl Swoopes.

Sheryl Swoopes was the first women's player to get her own signature sneaker and the WNBA partly built its ad campaign around her when the league formed.

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Texas steakhouse chain ordered to pay $21M for illegal tip pooling

A federal judge ordered Perry’s Steakhouse to pay millions in back wages and damages for violating tipped worker labor laws. The restaurant plans to appeal the judgement.

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The WNBA is returning to Houston as Fertittas complete deal for Connecticut Sun

The Connecticut Sun franchise will move to Houston after the 2026 season to bring WNBA back to Houston for first time since 2008.

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The Woodlands wasn’t picked for free underground tunnels from Elon Musk’s company | Here’s who was

The vision for an underground tunnel system in The Woodlands won't be moving forwawrd.

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