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Air Force Special Operations Command has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week.

Five Houston men have been taken into federal custody after they were charged in a large-scale mail theft and credit card fraud scheme resulting in more than $1.2 million in losses, the United States Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department says it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry won't seek reelection to the U.S. House next year after all.

The major philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, said Tuesday it will commit $50 million to increase civic engagement among women and youth over the next three years as part of its strategy to support democracy in the U.S. Alex Soros, chair of the Open Society Foundations and son of its founder billionaire investor George Soros, said in a statement that the advocacy of women and young people is essential to stopping the advancement of authoritarianism.

U.S. employers posted 8.7 million job openings in October, the fewest since March 2021, in a sign that hiring is cooling in the face of higher interest rates yet remains at a still-healthy pace.

Asian shares declined Tuesday on heavy selling of property and technology shares.

Most stocks slipped on Wall Street, but the market hung near its highest level in 20 months following a mixed set of reports on the economy.

The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds.

U.S. auto safety regulators say they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago.

Georgia Republicans are advancing a proposed congressional map that maintains their party's 9-5 majority in the state's congressional delegation.

A survey shows most business economists think the U.S. economy could avoid a recession next year, even if the job market ends up weakening under pressure brought by high interest rates.

Vice President Kamala Harris flew to the Middle East to tackle climate change and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two challenges that have flummoxed White Houses for decades.

Louisiana lawmakers now have until the end of January to draw and pass new congressional boundaries to replace the current map that a federal judge says dilutes the power of the state’s Black voters.

The U.S. military has confirmed that it will permanently end live-fire training in Makua Valley on Oahu.

BMW is recalling a small number of SUVs in the U.S. because the driver’s air bag inflators can blow apart in a crash, hurling metal shrapnel and possibly injuring or killing people.

U.S. officials are proposing a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx to help a snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in parts of the contiguous U.S. by the end of the century.

U.S. health officials say flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections may be peaking.

World AIDS Day is a great opportunity to remind people that HIV is still here.

Asian shares have slipped after Wall Street closed out its best month of the year with big gains in November.

Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is expected to testify before Congress early next year as part of Republicans’ yearslong investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and the U.S. response to the disease.

Asian shares are mostly higher ahead of the release of U.S. consumer inflation data.

A temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war has been extended another day.

Republican demands to stop the flow of migrants at the Mexico-U.S. border have left Congress scrambling.

Vice President Kamala Harris will join the United States delegation at the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Dubai.

Top diplomats from more than 50 countries have arrived in North Macedonia for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

A lot of activity, but mostly off shore this year

The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal.

The Japanese coast guard says a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission off of the country’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members.

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s not just you.

Asian shares are mixed after a strong report on U.S. consumer confidence and hopes the Federal Reserve is finished with its aggressive interest rate hikes sent shares higher on Wall Street.

For those who’d like to participate in Giving Tuesday, we assembled a list of charitable Houston organizations worth considering. The station has featured several of these organizations through its KPRC 2 Community initiative.

A record number of passengers traveled through U.S. airports over Thanksgiving weekend, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday.

The Pentagon says the five armed assailants captured by U.S. forces after seizing a commercial ship near Yemen over the weekend were likely Somali and not Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East as the U.S. hopes to find a way to extend a cease-fire in Gaza and get more hostages released.

The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing taste for SUVs, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests.

The number of people sickened by salmonella from cut and whole cantaloupes has more than doubled in a week.

Shares are mixed in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain.

Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy.

A man who won one of the largest lottery payments in U.S. history has filed a federal lawsuit against the mother of his child in an attempt to keep his identity concealed.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain.

South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea but the launch likely failed.

The White House says it's very concerned that Iran may provide ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine.

Thanksgiving may be a time for Americans to come together, but opinion is divided over what’s on the crowded dinner table.

A multi-vehicle crash has left one person dead and shut down multiple northbound lanes on US 59 at Fondren Road, according to Houston TranStar.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street’s rally ran out of momentum.

A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington.

Asian shares are mostly higher after a rally on Wall Street led by gains in Microsoft after it announced it was hiring Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker.

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr_ says the situation for his nation in the South China Sea “has become more dire.”.

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its “plant hardiness zone map” for the first time in a decade.

The 92-year-old businessman who represented Taiwan at this week’s summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in San Francisco says he's hopeful that a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will help reduce tensions between the two superpowers and in the region.

U.S. health officials say at least seven states are seeing high levels of the flu and that cases are rising in other parts of the country.

We still need rain to help with our drought

Honda is recalling nearly 250,000 vehicles in the U.S. because bearings can fail, causing the engines to stall and increasing the risk of a crash.

Asian stocks are mostly lower after Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish as momentum slowed following a strong rally in the first half of November.

U.S. health inspectors found a host of sanitation and manufacturing problems at an Indian plant that recently recalled eyedrops sold in the U.S. The problems include cracked floors, barefoot workers and manipulated testing records.

One of the thorniest problems of the 21st century is how to get people to eat less meat.

Demonstrators seeking a cease-fire in Gaza blocked bridges on both sides of the U.S., including a major span into San Francisco during a global trade summit with President Joseph Biden and other world leaders.

Walmart extended its streak of strong quarterly gains heading into the holiday season as its low-prices continue to attract shoppers looking for deals in a tough economic environment.

Last year, Texas joined more than 30 other states in banning TikTok on government-issued cell phones and computers. A nationwide coalition of professors are suing the state over the ban, arguing it has limited their ability to teach and research the social media app.

Obesity rates in the U.S. have been rising steadily for well over a decade and some of the world’s biggest drug developers are tapping into the growing treatment market.

Mexico said Texas’ Senate Bill 4 will violate the human rights of Mexican immigrants living in Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott said he plans to sign the proposal into law.

An 18-wheeler caught on fire on Wednesday on U.S. 59 and is causing a traffic jam, according to the Houston Fire Department.

Taiwan will take part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco this week, a rare opportunity for the self-governing island democracy of 23 million people and its high-tech economy to break the diplomatic embargo on it imposed by authoritarian China.

The Department of Energy is making a push to strengthen the U.S. battery supply chain — the minerals and parts that go into batteries.

U.S. wholesale prices fell sharply last month as inflationary pressure continued to ease in the face of a year and a half of higher interest rates.

China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue.

Asian shares have retreated after Wall Street added a bit more to its big rally from a day before.

Thirteen Texas Republicans opposed the GOP-led legislation, which would keep the government funded as Congress negotiates federal appropriations. The bill passed after nearly all Democrats came to back it.

Police in El Salvador have arrested 10 people accused of operating a migrant smuggling ring.

U.S. authorities say illegal border crossings from Mexico fell 14% in October from a month earlier, following three months of big increases.

Approximately 37.3 million people, or about 11% of the U.S. population, have diabetes while an additional 96 million have prediabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine — decades after the shots were made widely available in other countries, including the U.S., Canada and Australia.

Home Depot is continuing to see its sales decline amid inflation concerns, and the home improvement retailer narrowed its fiscal 2023 outlook.

Asian shares are trading mostly higher ahead of potentially market-moving developments, including a U.S.-China summit and data releases in the U.S., Japan and China.

A Houston man is being hailed a hero after jumping into action and pulling an injured Houston police officer to safety after he was shot in the leg.

U.S. health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for possible cases of lead poisoning in children.

Stellantis says it will offer buyout or early retirement packages to about 6,400 nonunion U.S. salaried employees.

Rory McIlroy is Europe's No. 1 golfer for the fifth time.

U.S. officials say five U.S. service members were killed when a military helicopter crashed during training over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

U.S. European Command says a U.S. military aircraft has gone down over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

While the rainfall we are seeing this week in southeast Texas is most welcome, many areas are still dealing with drought conditions.

A European company has cancelled plans to build blades for offshore wind turbines in coastal Virginia.

Patrick Parker Walsh is one of thousands of thieves who perpetrated the greatest grift in U.S. history — potentially plundering more than $280 billion in federal COVID-19 aid.

Wall Street rose sharply to add to an already strong November, which is on track to be one of the market's best months of the year.

The proportion of U.S. kindergartners exempted from school attendance vaccination requirements has hit its highest level ever.

The average rate on the benchmark 30-year home loan fell for the second week in a row, positive news for prospective homebuyers after rates touched a 22-year high just last month.

The Census Bureau is predicting an older and more diverse America in the coming decades, along with other projections through the year 2100.

Apple might end up on the hook after all for billions of euros in back taxes to Ireland in the latest twist in a longrunning European Union dispute.

Asian shares have retreated after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street.

Beyond Meat’s revenue fell nearly 9% in the third quarter as higher sales of its plant-based meat in Europe failed to make up for plummeting demand in the U.S. Beyond Meat on Wednesday reported revenue of $75.3 million for the July-September period.

Senator John Whitmire and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee led the Houston mayoral race. But neither got enough votes to win Tuesday’s election.

Shares are meandering in Asia after a another mixed close as Wall Street recalibrates following recent big swings.

Syphilis cases in U.S. newborns again are on the rise.

Asian shares are mixed in muted trading as attention focuses on prospects for improved China-U.S. relations from meetings next week on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim summit.

A glitch in the network that processes electronic transfers between nearly all U.S. bank accounts has led to delays in settling deposits, some of which remain stalled.

Starbucks is increasing pay and benefits for most U.S. hourly workers after ending its fiscal year with record sales.

Asian shares have advanced following Wall Street gains last week that were buoyed by hopes for early interest rate cuts.