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La Porte area firefighters and a Harris County Hazmat unit reportedly controlled a chemical spill Monday after a pipeline broke on the northeast side of La Porte, 20 miles away from Houston during Hurricane Harvey. The spill prompted officials to declare a "chemical emergency." The city of Shoreacres and the La Porte police indicated that after 7 p.m., the issue was resolved with no injuries.

NEW YORK (AP) - No longer the event it was when Eminem ruled the charts, the MTV Video Music Awards tallied 5.68 million viewers across 10 different networks on Sunday for a show dominated by Kendrick Lamar's coronation and the debut of Taylor Swift's new video.

Sean Spicer finally gets to meet the pope

A later date for the game will be explored.

A later date for the game will be explored.

August trading volume has been the lightest it’s been in three years, so enjoy the quiet while it lasts because after Labor Day a host of catalysts await traders returning from vacations that can rock the market and boost volumes considerably.

She's taking lounge wear to a whole new level.

Here’s an exercise first attempted after Raiders quarterback Derek Carr signed the richest . . . contract . . . ever in June. Now that Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has done the same, it’s time to look at whose hand will be the next on the baseball bat as quarterbacks outdo each other, one at a [more]

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Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times was thrown out Tuesday by a federal judge.

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Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, at an event in Tampa, Fla., last year. In her lawsuit, she contended that an editorial in The Times had linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona even though the news organization knew the connection was false.

Touching down in Corpus, Christi, Texas, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump gets a first-hand look into the damage that was caused by Tropical Storm Harvey when it made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane just five days prior.

Touching down in Corpus, Christi, Texas, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump gets a first-hand look into the damage that was caused by Tropical Storm Harvey when it made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane just five days prior.

Of the 67 episodes chronicling life during wartime in Westeros, female representation behind the scenes has been truly shocking.

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 faculty at Dartmouth College have condemned a statement by its president distancing the institution from comments by a professor who specializes in the anti-fascism movement. Mark Bray, author of "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook," has explained the movement in television interviews, saying many recognize self-defense is a legitimate response to white supremacist and neo-Nazi violence. On Aug. 21, Dartmouth President Philip Hanlon wrote that Bray's statements "supporting... Читать дальше...

A President Trump appointee said “Internet crimes” were to blame for inappropriate comments by an online user made against Barack Obama.

Raymond Tanter, Edward Stafford

Security, Asia

The Trump administration deserves credit for refraining from following a “one shoe fits all” policy toward regime change in Pyongyang.

Does the “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander?” analogy apply to Pyongyang and Tehran? Relying on a “one size fits all” approach may lead to disaster. A regime-change policy for a rogue Tehran could serve the national interest because Iran has a viable coalition of dissidents;... Читать дальше...

A NASA camera orbiting the moon turned its lens toward Earth during the total solar eclipse last week, capturing a photo of the black shadow that swept across the United States and blocked out the sun to viewers on the ground.

Sounds awesome, actually.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man wanted in connection with the beating of a black man in Charlottesville on the day of a white nationalist rally turned himself in to authorities in Georgia and will be extradited to Virginia, officials said.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man wanted in connection with the beating of a black man in Charlottesville on the day of a white nationalist rally turned himself in to authorities in Georgia and will be extradited to Virginia, officials said.

New York has one of the highest real estate prices in the US, with one-bedroom apartments costing an average of $3,000 a month. Now, it’s about to become the most expensive place in the United States to purchase cigarettes, thanks to new legislation signed Monday by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.