CAIRO (AP) — Six ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia 's port of Yanbu on the Red Sea and the southwestern city of Taif have been intercepted, a Saudi military spokesperson said Thursday, blaming Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen as fighting escalates. There was no immediate cla...
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Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have no shortage of difficult issues to cover when they sit down for talks Thursday at the White House. The leaders are tackling issues like trade irritants, artificial intelligence safeguards and the war in Iran. Trump wants China to use it...
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Permian High School Theatre has announced new performance dates for “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” which will now take the stage in the newly renovated Permian High School Auditorium on Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, November 7, at 2 p.m. and ...
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Israel's increasingly isolated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in New York on Thursday to address the United Nations General Assembly, but no meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump was planned. Hamas said it was ready to move forward with the next stages of a Gaza peace a...
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Southwestern Mexico braced for heavy rain and mudslides Wednesday after Polo, a powerful Pacific cyclone, became a major hurricane. Forecasters also warned another system headed for Hawaii could cause catastrophic flooding later in the week. Hurricane Polo, an ...
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Texas state Rep. Angela Paxton (R) told a group of conservative women to vote Republican “even if we’re mad at them,” marking the first time she has publicly weighed in on her estranged husband's Senate race as he trails in the polls. Paxton filed for divorce in July 2025 from Te...
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MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) - The first month of the high school football season is in the books, and Midland junior cornerback MJ Washington made his mark in Week 4. Washington is our Week 4 Athlete of the Week after helping the Bulldogs shut out Bastrop 49-0 on the road. The jun...
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge on Wednesday dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit accusing The Des Moines Register and its former pollster of misrepresenting the state of the 2024 presidential race, rejecting the president’s claim that the newspaper’s poll coverage violated Iowa’s co...
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By ANNA WILDER The Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas County election offices throughout Texas are scrambling to process a massive backlog of voter registration applications stemming from an error at the state level, a headache that is hitting just as they are prep...
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A 54-year-old Odessa man was arrested Saturday after being accused of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl. According to an Odessa police report released Tuesday, officers were dispatched to an apartment in reference to a sexual assault on Sept. 15. When officers arrived, a woma...
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A Midland man out on bail in connection with a 2024 Midland homicide was arrested Sept. 15 after being accused of threatening two women with a gun and kidnapping one of them. According to an Odessa Police Department report released Tuesday, officers were dispatched to the Legado ...
