By Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story Feb. 29, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — In a case that gripped the hearts of Houstonians, justice has been served as the perpetrator behind the tragic death of two-year-old Maliyah Bass has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Harris County District Attorney Kim
Continue ReadingBy Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story Feb. 29, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — As the sun rises over the sprawling cityscape of Houston, it heralds not just a new day but also the promise of continued advocacy and leadership from Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. Representing Texas’s 18th Congressional District, Jackson
Continue ReadingBy Francis Page, Jr. Click here for updates on this story Feb. 28, 2024 (Houston Style Magazine) — • Dynamic Leadership: Amanda Edwards is heralded as a dynamic, trailblazing leader, poised to infuse Congress with fresh perspectives and innovative strategies. • Houston Proud: Edwards celebrates her “native Houstonian” roots and boasts an illustrious academic pedigree
Continue ReadingBy Manu Raju and Ted Barrett, CNN The under-the-radar race to replace Mitch McConnell is a wide-open affair with no clear front-runner, according to many GOP senators, as the top contenders begin jockeying to win over their colleagues for a position central to their party’s agenda and strategy. The election to succeed McConnell – the
Continue ReadingBERLIN (AP) — Authorities say a grenade and other weapons have been found in searches of the Berlin apartment where a suspected former member of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction group was arrested this week after more than three decades in hiding. Daniela Klette was arrested on Monday. She is accused of participating in
Continue ReadingBy Anna Cooban, CNN London (CNN) — European consumer rights groups have accused Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, of carrying out a “massive” and “illegal” operation of collecting data from hundreds of millions of users in the region. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), an umbrella body for 45 consumer groups, said eight of
Continue ReadingBy Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN New York (CNN) — It’s no secret that commercial real estate (CRE) has become a source of stress for banks. Had they known there was going to be a pandemic that would completely disrupt where people work, they likely would have given more pause to lending money to clients who lease
Continue ReadingBy MEGAN JANETSKY and GABRIELA SELSER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — A panel of U.N.-backed human rights experts has accused Nicaragua’s government of committing “serious systematic human rights violations, tantamount to crimes against humanity.” That’s according to findings released Thursday from an investigation into the country’s expanding crackdown on political dissent. The government of
Continue ReadingBy Alicia Wallace, CNN New York (CNN) — Rising prices continued to loom large in January, but new data released Thursday showed that inflation is still on a downward — albeit bumpy — path toward the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index was up 2.4% for the 12 months that ended
Continue ReadingBy STAN CHOE AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street’s latest winning month is heading toward a quiet finish as U.S. stocks drift around their record heights. The S&P 500 rose 0.2% in afternoon trading, continuing its run of modest moves since hitting an all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
Continue ReadingOpinion by Ofri Bibas Levy (CNN) — We were naive. When countless people around the world watched the footage of armed terrorists abducting two little redheaded boys and their mother on October 7th, we were naive enough to believe it would be just a matter of days until the world’s outrage would be so great, the pressure
Continue Readingmacamilarincon (CNN) –– La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos acordó este miércoles decidir si el expresidente Donald Trump puede argumentar inmunidad en el caso federal de subversión electoral que lidera el fiscal especial Jack Smith. La decisión del alto tribunal suma otra apelación explosiva del exmandatario a su expediente y probablemente retrasará aún más su
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In one of the weirdest high schools in history, Cleopatra is dating class president Frida Kahlo and John F. Kennedy’s best friend is Abraham Lincoln. This is “Clone High,” a cult animated show that’s enjoying a new life on the streamer Max some two decades
Continue ReadingBy MEG KINNARD and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Donald Trump’s campaign has vowed not to talk about her anymore. Many pundits have written her off entirely. But Nikki Haley is still campaigning across the country — and plenty of Republican voters are coming to hear what she has to say.
Continue ReadingBy EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought
Continue ReadingBy COLLEEN LONG, SEUNG MIN KIM and JILL COLVIN Associated Press EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger Donald Trump both head to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much both candidates want
Continue ReadingValeria Ordóñez Ghio (CNN Español) — Uno de los elementos importantes para la jornada electoral de México es la tinta indeleble con la que se marca el dedo de los ciudadanos tras emitir su voto. La tinta forma parte de los materiales electorales – junto con los plumones y las boletas – que se utilizan
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — This year hasn’t started well for aviation safety, with a runway collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and a door plug blowing out mid-air from an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 in January, and with four more fatal accidents involving regional and business aircraft in the weeks since. However, commercial
Continue ReadingBy LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire for his secret hospital stay last month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Thursday that the Defense Department has made changes to improve the notification process if he must transfer decision-making authorities due to illness or lack of communications. He said there were no
Continue ReadingOpinion by Catherine Russell (CNN) — The conflict in Gaza has now passed the 20-week mark. Since October, unrelenting war has squeezed people farther and farther south, pushing them to Rafah, the final stretch of Gazan territory before the Egyptian border. In just the past six weeks, the population of Rafah has increased from less
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