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Violence Displaced Members Of More Than Half A Million Mexican Households In Past 5 Years By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press620 words MEXICO CITY (AP) — Violence has forcibly displaced people from more than half a million households across Mexico in the past five years, according to new figures released by Mexico’s national statistics agency, the first numbers that speak to the depth of what many…

Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Use Revamped Federal Voter Eligibility Database For Now By ALI SWENSON, JOHN HANNA and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting.…

Tasia Fortune’s Hanging Was ‘Staged’ After Her Death In A Drug Dispute, Mississippi Police Say By ED WHITE and SOPHIE BATES Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Tasia Fortune was apparently killed in a drug dispute before her body was hung in a tree in a “staged” lynching behind an abandoned home in the Mississippi capital this summer, a detective testified Friday. The Aug. 3 discovery of the b…

Xi Says He’ll See Trump Again Soon As He Wraps Up US Visit With A Look At The Constitution By MICHELLE L. PRICE and FU TING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up his state visit to Washington on Friday by announcing that he will meet President Donald Trump two more times before the end of the year, doubling the number of face-to-face discussions between the le…

New Mexico Jury Finds Facebook Liable For Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections By MIKELLA SCHUETTLER Associated Press/Report for America A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the platform in the latest legal setback against the social media giant that has already cost it billions of dollars. The jury found over 43 million violation…

Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump TV Ad Campaign Grows With New Spot, Wider Reach By ALI SWENSON Associated Press The Trump administration on Friday appeared to ramp up its use of U.S. government-funded political advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, airing its second TV ad in three days while expanding its spending on the first to at least $443,000. The White House maintains the ads are “publ…

Texas Job Growth Slows, Still Better Than National Average The rate of job growth in Texas is slowing a bit, but it still outpaces the national average. Texas employers added 56-hundred nonfarm jobs last month, boosting the state’s growth rate about one percent for the year. That’s about twice the nationwide average growth rate. More than 159-thousand jobs have been added statewide so far this ye…

County Treasurer Cited For 4-Vehicle Accident On North Freeway Houston police say Harris County Treasurer Dr. Carla Wyatt caused a four-vehicle accident on the North Freeway a week ago. The collision happened shortly after noon last Friday on I-45 near Tidwell Road. Wyatt reportedly rear-ended first one vehicle, then a second, which was knocked into a third. No injuries were reported. Police tick…

Man Accused Of Killing 6 In Austin, Bexar County Plans To Plead Insanity Attorneys for the man accused of killing six people in Bexar County and Austin in 2023 say they plan to plead insanity in his trial next month. Shane James reportedly shot and killed his parents at their Bexar County home in December 2023 before driving to Austin, where investigators say he killed four people and wounded thr…

Tarrant County Rushes To Process Delayed Voter Registrations Before Deadline Tarrant County is rushing to process tens of thousands of voter registration applications at the last minute. The applications were delayed because of a problem at the Texas Department of Public Safety. Election workers are plowing through a reported backlog of about 64-thousand voter registration records. The rush comes…