Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a brief visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly this week without meeting U.S. President Donald Trump, highlighting tensions between the two allies as they differ over the war with Iran and Israel faces growing international criticism over Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
The Texas Department of Transportation is proposing a $209 million project to widen a section of the Grand Parkway and add two flyover ramps at Interstate 45 near Spring to address traffic congestion.
Texas election officials are working to process tens of thousands of voter registration applications delayed after the Department of Public Safety failed to transmit applications from its online driver services portal to county election offices, just weeks before the November midterm elections.
Storms damaged El Paso’s Scenic Drive on Wednesday, forcing authorities to close the popular roadway in both directions indefinitely while officials assess the damage.
Garnet Coleman, a Democrat who represented Houston’s House District 147 in the Texas Legislature for more than three decades, died Wednesday at age 65, his family said.
Houston Independent School District administrators have directed some campuses to cut staff and spending a month into the school year as the district faces declining enrollment and reduced state funding during its third year under a state takeover.
Celia Veloso, the mother of Mary Jane Veloso, said she only believed her daughter had finally secured her freedom after human rights lawyer Edre Olalia called her following President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s decision to grant Veloso an absolute pardon on Friday.
Lawyer Ernesto Francisco Jr. has asked the Supreme Court to nullify the Senate Impeachment Court’s Sept. 23, 2026 ruling that changed the voting threshold for convicting Vice President Sara Duterte, arguing that the Senate cannot alter a requirement set in the 1987 Constitution.
Davao City Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte and former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV will join the prosecution’s next set of witnesses in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial as the panel presents evidence on allegations of unexplained wealth.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed into law a measure postponing the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) scheduled for Nov. 2 and extending the terms of incumbent barangay and SK officials to five years.