Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that he won Minnesota in 2020, despite Democratic presidential candidates carrying the state for more than 40 years. “I thought we won it in 2016. I thought we won it in 20 — I know we won it in 2020,” he said during a speech at the Minnesota … Read more

“This kind of wind is something we have not seen in Harris County since Hurricane Alicia in 1983,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the top government executive in the county, said at a news conference Friday. Hurricane Alicia was a small hurricane but was a Category 3 when it made landfall near San Luis Pass … Read more

The tragic death of a Massachusetts teenager who collapsed after eating an extremely spicy tortilla chip last year may prompt both doctors and food manufacturers to take a closer look at the ingredient that provides the punch — capsaicin. Harris Wolobah died in September at age 14 from cardiopulmonary arrest “in the setting of recent … Read more

TEL AVIV — Israeli officials on Friday announced their forces in Gaza had recovered the bodies of three revelers killed by Hamas attackers near the Supernova, or Nova, music festival on Oct. 7. According to Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari the three — Shani Louk, 23, Amit Buskila, 28, and Itzik Gelenter, 57 — ran … Read more

But Ukraine and its allies signaled that the Russian offensive could be contained. “The Russians don’t have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough, we don’t believe,” said U.S. General Christopher Cavoli, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe. “More to the point, they don’t have the skill and the capability to do it; to operate … Read more

Four people are dead and nearly 1 million customers are without power in Texas as severe storms slammed the Houston area Thursday night. Two deaths were caused by fallen trees and one was from a crane accident, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said at a Thursday night news briefing. Peña noted that these are not … Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a pardon on Thursday for the Army sergeant convicted of murder last year in the fatal shooting of a protester in downtown Austin in July 2020.Daniel Perry was found guilty in the murder of Garrett Foster by a Travis County jury last year and sentenced to 25 years in prison. … Read more

WASHINGTON — On the car ride from Trump Tower to the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was venting to Speaker Mike Johnson about the first 16 days of his hush money trial and how it’s kept him off the campaign trail. “He’s clearly frustrated that he’s been tied up now for the fifth … Read more

“I strongly condemn the vile attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a post on X. “Such acts of violence have no place in our society and undermine democracy, our most precious common good,” she said. “Violence must not be existant in European politics,” German Chancellor Olaf … Read more

The principal of a central Florida elementary school was arrested this week and accused of holding a child in a room for 40 minutes, putting him in a chokehold and hitting him with a charging cable. Dontay Akeem Prophet, 33, who had been principal of Destiny Leadership Academy in Ocala, was arrested Saturday on charges … Read more