A 4-year-old boy died on Sunday in Johnson County, Texas, after being swept away by floodwaters, the authorities said.
Several rivers north of Houston were forecast to reach or exceed their floods of record, the authorities said. Evacuation orders were in place for some areas.
Muenster, Texas, has hosted a German-heritage festival for nearly 50 years. But then some locals rebelled.
Mr. Cuellar and his wife are accused of accepting bribes from a bank in Mexico City and an oil and gas company owned by Azerbaijan. He has maintained they are innocent.
Several counties were under flood warnings in the Houston area and other parts of Southeast Texas on Friday.
Some residents in the Houston area along the east bank of the San Jacinto River were urged to leave before nightfall. Crews had rescued people and animals from flooded areas.
An early 19th-century Cape Cod-style home with a writing studio in Provincetown, a 1939 cottage in Austin and an 1840 house in Charleston.
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
Days after a crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters, at least 50 people were arrested after new tents were erected on the Austin campus.
The move by the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center was the second time this month that a hospital has taken this rare step.
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An infant was among those killed, officials said. Parts of five states — Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas — were under a tornado watch on Sunday.
Many museums around the country have had children’s programs for years — but they are on the rise now more than ever.
Storms destroyed homes and injured several people in Iowa and Nebraska, including in Omaha. A tornado also hit near Des Moines.
The airline expects fewer deliveries of Boeing planes than before, and cited “significant challenges” in achieving growth plans because of it.
Many parents and nutritionists applauded stricter federal regulations, but food companies say the changes could increase costs and waste.
In a biennial show this spring and summer between two museums on either side of the border, artists tell fresh stories about a contentious region.
A single spillover, from a bird to a cow, led to the infections, a review of genetic data has found.
There’s plenty of barbecue and Mexican — as you’d expect — but also world-class Japanese, Korean and more. Comments welcome, as always.
To reduce the risk PFAS pose, we need far more comprehensive mandates that test, monitor and limit the entire class of chemicals.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
Residents in parts of South Dakota, Nebraska, Texas and Nevada were unable to call the emergency number, officials said. Service was later restored in Las Vegas, Nebraska and South Dakota.
The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.
A horticulture expert shares his must-read list.
Along with the departure of two senior executives, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.
Large hail, damaging winds, heavy rain and isolated tornadoes are expected on Monday in the Plains before moving into the Midwest on Tuesday.
The federal grants will support Samsung’s new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.
The authorities said that a man driving a semitrailer truck crashed into a Department of Public Safety office in Brenham, Texas, after he had been denied a commercial driver’s license.
A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs.
The Texan trio’s vibes have spawned countless imitators, but their magic isn’t so easy to replicate.
Storms were moving east, setting off numerous warnings and watches from Texas to Florida. There were reports of tornadoes in Louisiana and Texas, with one person killed in a Mississippi storm.
What people in the path of totality were seeing and saying as the eclipse unfolded across the continent.
To attract movie and television production, states must try to offer the best incentives. The competition drives spending on Hollywood subsidies ever higher.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
The new contract would provide raises and better benefits, following similar deals at other big airlines.
Since the end of a pandemic-era policy that barred states from removing people from Medicaid, Texas has dropped over half a million people from the program, more than any other state.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
Hay nuevas vacunas contra la COVID-19 que funcionan. Pero también hay menos puntos de vacunación, menos alcance y menos soluciones creativas para generar conciencia y aumentar el acceso a las inyecciones.
Getting shots into arms isn’t rocket science, or at least it shouldn’t be.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
The death of at least 53 migrants in Texas, more than half of whom were from Mexico, is testing U.S. efforts to enlist Mexico in deterring migration.
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Daniel Defense was one of nearly 500 gun and ammunition makers and retailers that collected a total of $125 million from the Paycheck Protection Program.