A sellout for a WNBA exhibition game? Welcome to the league's Caitlin Clark era
Fans lined up outside the arena more than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut for the Indiana Fever in a preseason game against the Dallas Wings, and the two-time NCAA women’s basketball player of the year did not disappoint.
1 dead and 13 injured in semitrailer crash at a Texas public safety office, with the driver jailed
Authorities say a Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler though the front a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others.
Convicted murderer charged in two new Texas killings offers to return to prison in plea
A convicted murderer who was released early from a Texas prison in 1993 and now faces two new murder charges has offered to enter a plea and to return to prison for 50 years in exchange for avoiding going to trial and facing a possible death sentence.
Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives
In the small town of Comitancillo in Guatemala’s mostly Indigenous highlands, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States recently.
Solar eclipse coverage: Tourists take a chance in Dallas despite cloudy forecast
Dallas was full of tourists eager to witness the solar eclipse on Monday. Sameer Baroova traveled from London. Kevin Sampron is from Denver, and Bernie Smith is from Oregon. They are among the millions who were traveling to the 15 states within the path of totality.
An appeals court blocks a debt relief plan for students who say they were misled by colleges
A federal appeals court says a Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful.”.
Company helping immigrants in detention ordered to pay $811M+ in lawsuit alleging deceptive tactics
A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics.
Women's NCAA Tournament games in Portland played on court with mismatched 3-point lines
The 3-point line for the women’s NCAA Tournament at Moda Center had a discrepancy in distance at each end of the court that went unnoticed through four games over two days before Texas and North Carolina State were informed of the problem ahead of their Elite Eight matchup.
US beats Mexico 2-0 on goals by Adams and Reyna, wins 3rd straight CONCACAF Nations League
Tyler Adams scored from about 35 yards in his first start in more than a year for club or country, Gio Reyna added a second-half goal and the United States beat Mexico 2-0 for its third straight CONCACAF Nations League title.
April’s total solar eclipse: South Florida to get a partial view; Frost Science museum hosts events
South Florida will get a partial view of the next total solar eclipse, a must-see event when the moon lines up between the sun and the Earth. The world will start watching when it passes the Pacific coast of Mexico, over the United States and Canada, and exits into the Atlantic.
As Texas border arrests law teeters in court, other GOP states also push tougher immigration policy
Republican lawmakers across the country were already jockeying to inject their states deeper into immigration enforcement when the Supreme Court, if only briefly, let Texas enforce a new law giving police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally.