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Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is launching an energy drink
Can you smell what "The Rock" is cooking? The wrestler-turned-actor-turned-entrepreneur is entering the energy drink business with ZOA, a health drink made with natural caffeine and superfoods.
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As the world begins its vaccination push, delayed rollouts draw criticism and concern
Political leaders are promising that mass vaccination campaigns will see life return to normal, as a more contagious variant of the coronavirus spreads across dozens of countries, adding urgency to the race to end the pandemic.
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Chris Hollins awarded the Democracy Action Hero Award by the Schwarzenegger Institute
The USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, an organization committed to advancing post-partisanship, headed by former California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, recently named Houston-area resident, Chris Hollins, as a recipient of the Institute's Democracy Action Hero Award.
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This cancer doctor wiped out more than $600,000 in medical debt for his former patients
An act of kindness by an Arkansas doctor is helping his former patients face the new year with less debt. Dr. Omar T. Atiq voided more than $650,000 of unpaid medical bills for those once under his care.
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Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the election
Some of America's biggest companies are suspending donations to Republican Congress members who objected to the Electoral College's votes.
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This snake turns its body into a lasso to climb up smooth surfaces
Snake-haters, look away -- and, whatever you do, don't look up.
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Key arrests from the Capitol riot so far
Twenty federal criminal defendants related to last week's deadly pro-Trump riot at the US Capitol have been rounded up across the country since the insurrection, with the allegations showing the danger of the mob.
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Getting Back On Track Rockets blowout Orlando with the help of some key role players.
The Houston Rockets (3-4) broke a two-game losing streak on Friday night as they defeated the Orlando Magic (6-3) by a score of 132-90 at the Toyota Center. Houston used a very strong defensive plan against the depleted Magic to hold them to 33 points in the first half that included the Rockets holding Orlando to only two made baskets in the final 6:58 of the first quarter.
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Lone Star College – Houston North Opens Its Fourth Location
Lone Star College-Houston North is the seventh college within the Lone Star College System. It consists of Fairbanks, Greenspoint, and Victory locations and will now include a fourth location named Fall- brook. The location was built in collaboration with Fallbrook Church
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Start Of A New Era: Texans Hired Nick Caserio As Their New G.M.
The Houston Texans have started the full transition from the Bill O’ Brien era. Houston hired former New England Patriots director of player personnel Nick Caserio as their new general manager. He will join his former coworker of six years with the Patriots, Jack Easterby, who currently serves as executive vice president of football operations.
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America Leads the World in Violence
Gun violence spiked across the country in 2020, the most violent years in decades. 19,000 were killed in shootings, the highest death toll in 20 years (and that does not include gun suicides). Mass shootings -- defined as four or more shot in an incident -- also rose drastically to over 600.
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Facebook bans Trump from posting for remainder of his term in office
Facebook will ban President Donald Trump's account from posting for at least the remainder of his term in office and perhaps "indefinitely," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post on Thursday.
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EU authorizes Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, paving the way for its rollout next week
The European Union has authorized Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved for use in the EU.
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Three The Hardaway Mavericks Tim Hardaway Jr. has offensive outburst to defeat the Rockets.
The Houston Rockets game plan was to keep Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic in check and make the role players beat them. Neither was accomplished as the Mavericks got a triple double (33 points, 16 rebounds, and 11 assists) from Doncic and 30 points from reserve guard Tim Hardaway Jr. as Dallas beat Houston 113-100 in the “Battle of I-45” at the Toyota Center on Tuesday.
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Ending The Year On A High Note Rockets defeat the Kings for their first win of the 2020-21 NBA Season
“Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Those lyrics from Auld Lang Syne, the famous song sung at the stroke of midnight every New Year’s Eve, and ironically can be sung at funerals, graduations and other occasions to bid farewell, was exactly the song the Houston Rockets needed to end their horrendous start to the 2020-21 NBA season.
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It Is What It Is
Another late game miscue costs the Texans a victory at home
In 1982, American R&B singer Richard “Dimples” Fields released the biggest hit single of his career titled, “If It Ain’t One Thing, It’s Another.” The chorus of the song literally sums up the last four weeks of the Houston Texans season.
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What to Watch in 2021
Leave all the events of 2020 in 2020. Don’t look back. Just look forward and push toward to the future of 2021. This is the year where we all will transform in one way or another. Our world will also change with us. This is why we must keep our eyes on the ones leading change. Take a look at a few things and people to keep a lookout for in 2021.
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Trump's tweets and actions put Georgia GOP senators on defense
Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are on defense just under one week from a crucial Senate runoff election that will determine who holds Senate power, as the President's public statements and actions in the final days of his administration are looming over close runoff elections in Georgia.
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Career moves to make in 2021
We've got some big plans for you, 2021. If 2020 left you feeling like all you did was tread water at work, let's make reigniting your career the goal for the new year.
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If Louie Gohmert is right, we might have had Presidents Al Gore and Hillary Clinton
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert's federal lawsuit seeking to empower Vice President Mike Pence in his "discretion" to unilaterally reject certain Electoral College votes -- specifically and conveniently, the ones that went for President-elect Joe Biden from key swing states -- is dead on arrival and accomplishes nothing beyond giving false hope to the last and most reality-resistant of the election deniers.
