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Exceptional windstorms that could leave some Houston residents without power for weeks left damage in their wake comparable to that caused by a hurricane, meteorologists said Friday. “We believe this windstorm is the most significant windstorm likely for the Houston area since Hurricane Alicia back in 1983,” said Janice Maldonado, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service Houston/Galveston office. At least four people died after the storms barreled through Houston on Thursday.
A group of U.S. medical workers left the Gaza Strip after getting stuck at the hospital where they were providing care, the White House said on Friday. Reports emerged earlier this week of American doctors being unable to leave Gaza after Israel closed the Rafah border crossing, including 10 from the U.S.-based Palestinian American Medical Association, who had intended to leave after a two-week mission at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, a city near Rafah in southern Gaza. On Friday, 17 American doctors and healthcare workers, out of a total of 20, got out of Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.
Since it’s not being televised, — the only images of testimony from inside the courtroom are portraits being done by sketch artists like Jane Rosenberg, whose sketches depict Trump and other key figures in various states and moods.
Stocks trod water as investors assess the chances of the Dow succeeding in another bid to cross 40,000 for the first time.
Melissa McCarthy shares what she's learned about weight loss and keeping a healthy body image in Hollywood.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel on Saturday to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will visit Israel on Sunday to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that Sullivan will stress in his talks with the Israelis the need to go after Hamas militants in Gaza in a targeted way, not with a full-scale assault on the southern city of Gaza.
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Friday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito should recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election after a new report said an upside-down American flag flew outside his home in the days after the Jan.
A US Supreme Court justice faced calls on Friday to recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump after an inverted American flag -- a symbol of the former president's false election fraud claims -- was flown outside his home."Flying an upside-down American flag -- a symbol of the so-called 'Stop the Steal' movement -- clearly creates the appearance of bias," Durbin said.
Apple's iPad Pro is an amazing piece of technology, but it needs the software to keep up.
A man whose family members were key architects of the American conservative movement is set to be sentenced Friday for his role in the Jan. 6 riot.
A legislator in South Carolina has had his law license suspended after a former client accused him of forging his signature to reach a settlement in a lawsuit without his permission. Democratic Rep. Marvin Pendarvis cannot practice law until the state Supreme Court lifts the suspension, justices said Friday in a written order. Pendarvis has not responded publicly to the lawsuit against him by former client Adrian Lewis.
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticized Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling her “racist,” following a tense House Oversight markup Thursday evening that quickly devolved into personal attacks.
Croatian lawmakers on Friday voted into office a new government that marks a tilt to the right in another European Union nation ahead of the 27-nation bloc's parliamentary election next month. Although it is still dominated by conservative Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, the new Croatian government now also includes hard-right Homeland Movement, a relatively new party that emerged as a kingmaker after an inconclusive parliamentary election in April. The new Cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who started his third consecutive term in office, was approved in a 79-61 vote in the 151-member Sabor, or the Croatian assembly.
Viral kids creator Rachel Griffin Accurso, known as Ms. Rachel, said she’s experienced bullying online following a fundraiser she launched for children in Gaza.
Right now, neither candidate is strong enough to capitalize on his opponent's flaws.
A mayoral candidate was among the six people killed by gunfire at a political campaign event in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Thursday, according to the Institute of Elections and Citizen Participation (IEPC).
A plush toy of the Hindu god Ganesh is helping a community of South Asian women discuss infertility in a way they never have before.
The company ended the project less than a year after it started.
A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial testified Friday that the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt followed Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say the Democrat arranged in return for bribes. James Bret Tate, a U.S. diplomat who was based in Cairo for several years and promoted U.S. agricultural interests, told a Manhattan federal court jury how Halal meat certification ended up in the hands of a single company run by Menendez's codefendant, Wael “Will” Hana, rather than several companies that had done it in the past. Prosecutors say Menendez, 70, of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, was behind the creation of the monopoly as a partial payback for bribes he received from Hana, a friend of Menendez's wife.
Pacific Island and Polynesian baby names: 86 baby names from the Pacific Islands to consider for parents looking for rare, distinctive and usual names.
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