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Austin city manager proposes $6B+ budget, as mayor floats tax rate change
The city of Austin’s draft budget for fiscal year 2026 released to the public Friday, a new step in the city’s budget ...
Iran says it would resume nuclear talks with US if guaranteed no further attacks
Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that his country would accept a resumption of nuclear talks with the U.S. if there were ...
Chelsea’s Fernández calls US heat dangerous, says FIFA should avoid afternoon World Cup kickoffs
Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández heads into Sunday’s Club World Cup final wary of the weather, along with Paris ...
Trump’s sudden shifts make his policies baffling to countries trying to negotiate lower tariffs
In the past week, President Donald Trump has managed to make his erratic trade policies even more baffling to countries ...
A year after Trump’s near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man
President Donald Trump was on stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds earlier this month, kicking off the country’s 250th ...
Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population
Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths ...
Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing
Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the middle of the York River, Bryan Watts looks down at a circle of sticks and pine ...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...
The Alcaraz-Sinner final at Wimbledon is the first French Open rematch since Federer-Nadal in 2008
It’s fitting that the Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner on Sunday represents the first time the same ...
Turkish president hails the start of disarmament by militant Kurdish separatists
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed start of a disarmament process by militant Kurdish separatists as ...
Russia warns US, South Korea and Japan against forming security alliance targeting North Korea
Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting ...
Iran says 5 inmates at Evin prison were killed in Israel’s airstrike on Tehran
An Israeli airstrike on Iran’s capital last month killed five inmates at Evin prison and resulted in the escape of several others, Iranian media reported Saturday. The ...