A 71-year-old man lost his life in Fort Bend County after being attacked by 7 pit bulls. Freddy Garcia was out on Monday on his regular stroll through the neighborhood to the convenience store, something he did a lot with family or friends. He lived in a garage apartment on[Read More…]
By Yiming Woo KYIV, July 22 (Reuters) – Meet Snake, a kitten with a heck of a war story. And the Ukrainian special forces soldier who saved him. When Ukraine’s military released images in early July of its troops raising the country’s blue and yellow flag over Snake Island, a[Read More…]
By Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to protect access to contraception, responding to concerns that it could be threatened by a conservative Supreme Court that revoked the ruling that guaranteed a nationwide right to abortion. The bill passed[Read More…]
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON, July 20 (Reuters) – Former finance minister Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss will battle it out to become Britain’s next prime minister after they won the final lawmaker vote, setting up the last stage of the contest to replace Boris Johnson.[Read More…]
A small plane crashed in a field near Beasley in Fort Bend County, Texas, on Thursday. Although the number of people on the plane is unknown, there are no reports of injuries or casualties. The plane went down in a field near Highway 59 and Darst Road, but was able[Read More…]
July 18 (Reuters) – Employees at a Miami investment firm had learned of a pending merger deal between former President Donald Trump’s social media company and a blank-check entity long before it was announced, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the discussions. Officials of[Read More…]
Although monkeypox has been proven to not be the new pandemic of 2022 after the terrible outcome with COVID in 2019, it is still real and spreading. Fort Bend County health officials are investigating what seems to be the first case of it in the area. Those suspected to have[Read More…]
MOSCOW, July 18 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google was fined 21.1 billion roubles ($373 million) on Monday by a Moscow court for a repeated failure to remove content Russia deems illegal, such as “fake news” about the conflict in Ukraine, Russia’s communications regulator said. Moscow has long objected to foreign tech[Read More…]
July 18 (Reuters) – Strikes and staff shortages are forcing airlines to cancel thousands of flights and causing hours-long queues at major airports, dashing hopes of a sizzling first summer after COVID lockdowns. Here is a summary of some of the key developments: LABOUR UNREST: After sweeping job cuts and[Read More…]
By David Shepardson July 14 (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Thursday that DNA testing results found the driver of a pickup truck involved in a fatal March crash that killed nine in Texas was not a 13-year-old but his father, according to the preliminary report.[Read More…]
