By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Eu...
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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 on a Gaza peace agreement, while a top...
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MIDLAND A Mexican national was federally charged in Midland Wednesday for voting in a federal election, announced U.S. Attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas. According to court documents, Imelda Magallanes, 51, was granted Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) st...
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President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the “truly great friendship” he's forged with Xi Jinping as the Chinese leader began his highly anticipated state visit. While Trump has many thorny issues to discuss with the president of America’s biggest economic rival, he focused on h...
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A Flock camera records drivers entering and exiting the southbound I-610 feeder road from a side street in Bellaire on Aug. 23, 2026. Credit: Jon Shapley for The Texas Tribune By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune Laredo, cut off from state funding for its Flock cameras, will ask v...
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Melissa Lucio was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Mariah Alvarez. (Photo Courtesy of Melissa Lucio’s attorneys) By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday rejected a lower court’s finding...
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AUSTIN RRC Commissioner Wayne Christian on Thursday called on Texas oil and gas producers, pipeline operators and other energy companies to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses amid recent cyberattacks involving Texas-bound energy tankers and federal warnings that foreign adve...
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Feature Impact Instant ramen is a comforting classic for students of all ages – from elementary schoolers enjoying a warm bowl on a fall day to college kids fueling up for all-night study sessions. While the nutritional contents of those packages might make you cringe, don’t writ...
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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. The Houth...
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By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer KFC has been taking a licking from fried chicken rivals like Raising Cane’s, but the global fast-food chain has a plan to return to the top of the U.S. pecking order. The Kentucky-born brand opened a new restaurant in McKinney, Texas, on Thurs...
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By AL LESAR The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Arch Manning finally visits Neyland Stadium where his uncle Peyton made quite the legacy for himself when top-ranked Texas visits No. 14 Tennessee. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian doesn’t want his quarterback trying to live up to anyo...
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By SETH BORENSTEIN and JENNIFER PELTZ The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have be...
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By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer FRANKFURT, Germany When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the war , choking off sea passage for some 15 million barrels of oil a day, many feared that prices would skyrocket, cratering the world economy. Instead, nearly seven m...
