Houston officials tap former Trump aides for homelessness policy consulting
Whitmire, a Democrat, has leaned on Republicans in Austin and D.C. to secure funding for the city.
Whitmire, a Democrat, has leaned on Republicans in Austin and D.C. to secure funding for the city.
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A man who lives at The Athena apartments in southwest Houston helped first responders get people out of their units as fire started to spread Friday afternoon. From our KPRC 2 Tower camera, you could see thick gray and then white smoke billowing across the skyline. Anthony, one o...
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The daughter of former President George W. Bush donated $2,500 to Lone Star Rising PAC, according to the political action committee's FEC report for the third quarter of 2026....
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Body worn camera video showing a Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper used Signal to notify federal immigration authorities about an undocumented teenager last summer, prompted an agency-wide warning from a senior leader within DPS, email records show. The 28-minute vi...
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A DHS spokesperson said the incident is under an active internal investigation, and the ICE agent has been suspended.
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Officials say they upgraded their ALPR policy and found an officer was violating that policy.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is offering a temporary increase in the reward for new information leading to an arrest in the 1995 murder of an El Paso woman inside her home....
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An Austin man has been booked into Harris County jail after being arrested on felony charges for attempting to sleep with 15-year-old Houston teen, including wanting to bring her to a President Trump rally and get her pregnant....
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President Trump’s press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday after less than a week on the job, according to The New York Times . Her brief tenure was marked by a rocky first press briefing on Tuesday and mounting questions about whether she had misrepresented her legal ba...
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President Donald Trump on Thursday said Sen. John Cornyn and Republican political strategist Karl Rove were “doing everything possible to make it hard” for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to win the upcoming U.S. Senate election....
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Two women were arrested after a child allegedly suffered burns to the feet at a Lafayette County, Mississippi, daycare.
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Houston, we know you’ve been waiting for cooler weather, and guess what? IT’S HERE! A cold front will move through Friday night into Saturday morning, bringing temperatures in the 50s to some areas around Houston. By the afternoon, temperatures will climb into the 70s, making for...
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