WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia, as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to COVID-19 than white Americans, recent polls show, reflecting diverging preferences on how to deal with the pandemic as federal, state and local restrictions fall by the wayside.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Arkansas is suing Family Dollar over the discovery of more than 1,000 rodents in a distribution facility in the state that prompted the discount retail chain to recall items purchased from hundreds of stores in the South.
BEIJING – Americans are increasingly seeing China as a world superpower and a threat, though growing numbers perceive it more as a competitor than an enemy, according to a survey released Thursday. The Washington-based Pew Research Center said that negative views of China reached a new high, with 82% of Americans having either somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable views of the country, a 6 percentage point increase from last year.
WEST COLUMBIA — Back in February, during a break from a winter reading retreat at a beach on the Texas coast, I traveled inland to tour an old plantation. I knew that I would encounter uncomfortable history.
To accomplish great things, one must be willing to perform great work over a great span of time. Rice University in Houston, which has come to exemplify such glory, has in its century of life become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The college started from nothing, except for the dream and generous donation of its founder. It was the job of its first president, Edgar Lovett, to make that dream a reality. With years of hard work and determination, Lovett built the institution and set the direction for greatness for its students and the college itself. Edgar Odell Lovett was born in 1871 in
The dream of a new Rodeo/Agriculture Expo Center at Southeastern Oklahoma State University took another step closer to reality Monday afternoon with an official groundbreaking ceremony. The new facility will be constructed on First Street, near the SE softball complex and inside the Crooked Smile Trail.
The Grayson County District Attorney's Office this week released a list of people recently indicted by grand jurors during the month of April. The indictments are formal charges and are not considered evidence of guilt.
John Wesley Hardin, 37, of Sanger, was sentenced to 34 years in prison for driving while intoxicated 3rd or more offense recently. A news release from the Grayson County District Attorney's Office said Hardin was also sentenced to 10 years in prison for bond jumping and failure to appear.
A man charged with killing 18 older women in the Dallas area over a twoyear span was found guilty of murder Thursday and sentenced to life in prison in one of the cases against him after an earlier mistrial.