Day: July 24, 2023

Early-morning San Antonio house fire kills 3, injures 3 others

2:15 pm July 24, 2023

An early morning house fire in San Antonio killed three people and injured three others, the city’s fire chief said. One woman died at the scene and two others — an adult and a child — later died at a hospital. The three people hospitalized were listed in critical condition, said San Antonio Fire Department […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott uses disaster declaration to install razor wire along US-Mexico border

2:02 pm July 24, 2023

Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America’s southern border. For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the state’s 1,200-mile […]

China is playing Biden officials for suckers on climate

2:00 pm July 24, 2023

This week, John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, was in China eager to revive joint U.S.-China efforts to tackle climate change. Chalk this up as another episode in the Biden administration’s fumbling foreign policy to placate the Chinese Communist Party. China is playing Biden officials for suckers. Kerry is the third administration official in […]

Oklahoma man who was imprisoned for nearly 50 years freed after judge ordered new trial

1:58 pm July 24, 2023

A man who had been imprisoned in Oklahoma for almost 50 years for a fatal shooting that he has long claimed he didn’t commit has been freed from custody after a judge ordered a new trial. Glynn Ray Simmons had been convicted in the 1974 death during a robbery of Carolyn Sue Rogers, a liquor […]

Former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte launches Republican bid for governor

1:57 pm July 24, 2023

Former Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she’s running for New Hampshire governor to “protect our Live Free or Die way of life.” The former state attorney general, who later represented the key New England battleground state in the U.S. Senate for a term, on Monday officially launched a 2024 campaign for governor, in the race […]