The unpaid franchise fees date as far back as 2007, a lawsuit alleges. | Continue reading
So far, no space exploring nations have claimed responsibility for the rocket. | Continue reading
Fed up with constant daily calls from unknown numbers, Austin accountant Dan Graham took... | Continue reading
WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United... | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Nesmith, the singer-songwriter, author, actor-director and... | Continue reading
Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, explains how the... | Continue reading
Authorities are tight-lipped about whether or not the teenager would face any charges... | Continue reading
BEIJING (AP) — Three astronauts who lived for 90 days on China's space station departed... | Continue reading
Don't be alarmed by this very scary-looking solar phenomenon. | Continue reading
And they shoot acid from their tails. | Continue reading
As a winter storm sent Texas spiraling into crisis with widespread power outages, a lack... | Continue reading
Twitter has permanently banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s account after he continued... | Continue reading
A Texas trauma surgeon is doing her part outside of the hospital to keep people informed... | Continue reading
We all know that 2020 was a no-good, horrible, fearful, tumultuous year that will be... | Continue reading
One of the Bay Area’s oldest tech companies is moving its headquarters out of Silicon... | Continue reading
The secretive data and surveillance company Palantir will offer its stock to public investors for the first time Wednesday, a long-anticipated move that promises to transform its business and its public profile. The direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange is one of the mos … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - The cityscape resembles the surface of a distant planet, populated by a masked alien culture. The air, choked with blown ash, is difficult to breathe. There is the Golden Gate Bridge, looming in the distance through a drift-smoke haze, and the Salesforce Tower, w … | Continue reading
The change was prompted by Apple's forthcoming split. | Continue reading
Traveling to Baltimore in the fall of 1864, Orville Wood had no way of knowing he would soon uncover the most elaborate election conspiracy in America's brief history. Wood was a merchant from Clinton County in the most northeastern corner of New York. As a supporter of Presiden … | Continue reading
Operating in the shadows of the online marketplace, specialized tech companies you've likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of our personal data to generate secret "surveillance scores" - digital mug shots of millions of Americans - that supposedly predict our future beha … | Continue reading
Witnesses said it appeared workers were burning papers in barrels. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made a visit to Tulsa, which is being considered as a site for the automaker's new U.S. assembly plant. | Continue reading
The bodies have been arriving at Anahi Ortiz's office in frantic spurts - as many as nine overdose deaths in 36 hours. "We've literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on," said Ortiz, a coroner in Columbus, Ohio. In Roanoke County, Va., police have responded to twice as ma … | Continue reading
The drug that buoyed expectations for a coronavirus treatment and drew international attention for Gilead Sciences, remdesivir, started as a reject, an also-ran in the search for antiviral drugs. Its path to relevance did not begin until Robert Jordan cleared it. A Gilead scient … | Continue reading
Best Buy will furlough approximately 51,000 store employees beginning April 19, the retailer announced on Wednesday. | Continue reading
MAKINDYE-LUKULI, Uganda (AP) - The darkening clouds are ominous for many in this urban neighborhood, promising rushing rainwaters stinking of human waste from overflowing septic tanks. As Africa faces a population boom unmatched anywhere in the world, millions of people are movi … | Continue reading
Cyber attackers that appear linked to the Chinese government infiltrated at least 10 global telecommunications carriers over several years and stole customer data, a Boston-based research firm said. | Continue reading
The University of Houston got a big win this week when a state appeals court agreed to reverse a lower court ruling that would have allowed a Houston photographer to sue the university for using an aerial photograph the university used to promote its business school. | Continue reading
A crew of anti-gay protestors rallied outside the federal courthouse Friday afternoon, announcing they have sued the Houston Public Library over a city-sponsored Drag Queen Story Hour which they say violates their freedom of religion. Opponents of the story hour h … | Continue reading
Tara Thomas thought her daughter was just having nightmares. "There's a monster in my room," the almost-3-year-old would say, sometimes pointing to the green light on the Nest Cam installed on the wall above her bed. Then Thomas realized her daughter's nightmares were real. In A … | Continue reading
Texas Central, the company behind the proposed high speed train between Houston and Dallas, may begin construction in late 2019 or early 2020 despite a recent court ruling against it. | Continue reading
Reconstructing the intricate French Gothic cathedral is bound to be no simple task, and will likely take years, if not decades. But some on Twitter pointed out a sliver of hope amidst the ashes: detailed 3D maps of the landmark have been created in recent years. | Continue reading
Laura Maradiaga, 11, was ordered deported without her family in Houston after what her lawyer calls a "mistake" on behalf of the local immigration court. | Continue reading
A federal court this week sided with an inmate who sued the Texas prison system to get a cotton blanket after repeatedly telling officials he was allergic to the standard-issued bedding, which he alleged is made of "recycled waste" and causes open sores. | Continue reading
In the Rockets' first game after trading their tallest forward, James Ennis III, the backup at power forward remained unchanged. It was still James Harden. | Continue reading
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africa's troubled power utility on Tuesday implemented power cuts nationwide, intensifying concern about growth in one of Africa's biggest economies even as the country announced it has emerged from recession.State-owned Eskom said it took the measure, w … | Continue reading
A Chinese researcher is missing a week after announcing he successfully edited the DNA of babies, Chinese media reports. Researcher He Jiankui said last week that he had altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatments. He said two of the edited embryos were born he … | Continue reading
Rice University officials announced Tuesday they will provide full tuition scholarships to undergraduate domestic students from low- and middle-income backgrounds starting in the fall of 2019, the latest effort by a major university to respond to rising concerns about soaring hig … | Continue reading
Robb Kulin, an Alaska native in NASA's 2017 astronaut class, is resigning at the end of this month, NASA officials confirmed Monday. | Continue reading
The Texas prison system on Friday voted to slash the cost of inmate calls home by more than 75 percent. | Continue reading
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station's operators $15,000 - a f … | Continue reading
Rome Shubert was sitting in his first-period art class shortly before 7:30 a.m. Friday when another student barged in and threw something on the desks behind him. Rome heard three loud pops and dropped to the ground, flipping his desk in front of him to shield himself.Then, he sa … | Continue reading
Authorities are investigating a shooting this morning at Santa Fe High School. | Continue reading