August 12, 2024, 6:06pm Business
Texas’ attorney general launched an investigation Monday into Houston’s electric utility over allegations of fraud and waste following Hurricane Beryl, adding to the mounting scrutiny after widespread power outages left millions without electricity for days. Read story
August 12, 2024, 5:20pm Nation & World
In the days after wildfire ripped through a rural neighborhood in the Maui mountain town of Kula, residents were determined to do what they could to prevent a repeat. With donated hoses and some impromptu training, some even learned how to open a standpipe to attack flames themselves if needed. Read story
August 12, 2024, 5:02pm Nation & World
Hunter Biden’s lawyers say prosecutors are inappropriately trying to insert “politically charged” allegations about his foreign business dealings into the upcoming federal tax trial against the president’s son. Read story
August 12, 2024, 5:01pm Life
Mars may be drenched beneath its surface, with enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks to form a global ocean, new research suggests. Read story
August 12, 2024, 4:59pm Nation & World
A judge ruled Monday that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed a New York residence on nominating petitions, invalidating the documents he needs to appear on the ballot in the state. Read story
August 12, 2024, 3:17pm Nation & World
The FBI said Monday it is investigating allegations that sensitive documents from the Trump campaign were stolen in a cyber intrusion days after the campaign declared it had been hacked by Iran. Read story
August 12, 2024, 3:16pm Nation & World
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been spreading false claims that an image of thousands of people waiting at Detroit's airport as Democrat Kamala Harris arrived for a campaign rally was fabricated with the help of artificial intelligence. Read story
August 12, 2024, 2:25pm Nation & World
Ukraine's top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia's neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin. Read story
August 12, 2024, 1:48pm Latest News
It’s Los Angeles’ turn for the torch. Mayor Karen Bass accepted the Olympic flag at the Paris closing ceremony Sunday, before handing it off to a key representative of LA’s local business — Tom Cruise — who in a pre-recorded trek via motorcycle, plane and parachute kicked off the countdown… Read story
August 12, 2024, 1:48pm Entertainment
Charles R. Cross, the Seattle-based author and music journalist who wrote definitive biographies of Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix, died Friday. He was 67. Read story
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