The state asked FEMA to reconsider individual aid for 20 counties hit by the July floods, citing 2,944 damaged homes and businesses. Trump promised more relief the same day but gave no amount or timeline.
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A Boston judge paused a rule cutting the time refugees have to contest termination of their status from 30 days to 10. DHS estimated up to 186,000 refugees could be affected.
The Fed held rates steady on Oct. 28, six days before the midterms, while saying inflation remains elevated. Two officials wanted a hike.
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The state asked FEMA to reconsider individual aid for 20 counties hit by the July floods, citing 2,944 damaged homes and businesses. Trump promised more relief the same day but gave no amount or timeline.
A Boston judge paused a rule cutting the time refugees have to contest termination of their status from 30 days to 10. DHS estimated up to 186,000 refugees could be affected.
Tens of millions of Americans voted early ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Here is what the early-vote numbers show, what they do not, and why your vote still matters.
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Texas logs close to 8,000 reported animal-vehicle crashes a year, most at night on rural roads from October through December. The end of daylight saving time puts more drivers on the road in the dark just as deer are on the move.
About 700,000 sandhill cranes winter in Texas, from the Panhandle to the coast. Here is how to know one, when they peak and where to go, from Muleshoe to Aransas County.
A firefly unrecorded for 43 years has been found in Delaware. Its rediscovery reveals what may be happening to the fireflies many of us remember chasing as children — and why leaving a little ground wild can matter.
A court fight with an irrigation district has federal lawyers weighing a move of 2.8 miles of wall from a levee into the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge near Alamo. Here is what was said in court.
Parks and Wildlife will open areas in Galveston, Matagorda, Aransas and Corpus Christi bays and the Lower Laguna Madre. Recreational harvesters may keep only oysters 3 inches or longer, with a limit of two sacks per person.
The Houston hospital's clinic, required by a May settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, offers free care for five years to patients who received gender-transition interventions and want to reverse course.
Replacing every unknown line could cost $11.5 million. The city wants computer modeling and meter checks to narrow the list first.
The CDC says more than 400 Americans die each year from unintentional, non-fire carbon monoxide poisoning. Here are the symptoms and the steps that protect a household.
All Saints' Day falls on Sunday, Nov. 1. Here is how the feast began in the age of Roman persecution and how it came to be observed on Nov. 1.
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Two bishops who prayed with President Trump on Oct. 22 say the White House released photos and video without permission and turned the meeting into a political moment.
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in tiny Praha is perhaps the best-known of Texas's painted churches. Here is the story of the Bohemian parish and the Swiss painter behind it.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church marks 30 years on Nov. 1 and 8 under the theme "Do You Know Our Suffering?"
Proposition A would fund Rosamond, Mantua and other road projects. The city's list totals $51.15 million, and the estimated bill tops $98 million.
Texas logs close to 8,000 reported animal-vehicle crashes a year, most at night on rural roads from October through December. The end of daylight saving time puts more drivers on the road in the dark just as deer are on the move.
Tens of millions of Americans voted early ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Here is what the early-vote numbers show, what they do not, and why your vote still matters.
Most of Terrell's charter amendments are housekeeping. A few would change how the council votes, redistricts and handles politics on the city payroll.
The Houston hospital's clinic, required by a May settlement with Attorney General Ken Paxton, offers free care for five years to patients who received gender-transition interventions and want to reverse course.
The Pentagon's FORTRESS initiative aims to keep major U.S. bases running for 90 days if war knocks out the grid and supply chains. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
The Marco would bring a boat-sized lagoon, office towers, hotels and up to 4,400 homes to the tollway and U.S. 380. Incentive deals come next.
After seven days of early voting, Texans with a Democratic primary history made up 35% of ballots to 33% for Republican primary voters, a first in one analyst's memory. The GOP's answer may lie with 2.1 million regulars who have yet to vote.
San Augustine, Texas (ZIP 75972) grew up beside a Spanish mission the Ais people refused to live in. Its founders bought the town site for ninety dollars in 1833 and laid it out in what may have been the first street grid in Texas.
