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Rockets' Jalen Green is Ready to Shed the "Rookie" Label
The media huddled around the Houston Rockets practice facility microphone, still laughing about rookie Alperen Sengun’s favorite English phrase he learned during his first year in the United States. Another young man walks in with a massive smile on his face and greets everyone in his presence.
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Chef Jacoby Ponder Tantalizes Taste Buds With Delicious Peach Bourbon BBQ Chicken Recipe
As spring approaches and the weather warms up outside, Chef Jacoby Ponder will tantalize your taste buds with his Peach Bourbon BBQ Chicken recipe, available in his new “Supper” cookbook set to drop in Fall of 2022. This recipe offers a refreshing blend of both sweet and savory flavors, while maintaining the classic smoky flavor of fresh-off-the-grill barbecue.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. Pleads Guilty to Forcible Touch
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. entered a plea of guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of forcibly touching a woman at a New York City nightclub in 2018.
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People of Color MUST Get Out and Vote!
Republicans are already gloating about the elections coming this fall. With Joe Biden lagging in the polls, Trump's Big Lie rousing the Republican base, inflation distracting from the remarkable jobs recovery, Democrats look to be in trouble. Much can change in the months left before the election -- and one central question is whether increased registration and voting among African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans will begin to turn more districts and more states blue, particularly those in the South.
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Vice President Kamala Harris to Announce Reforms to Ease the Burden of Medical Debt
One-in-three adults in the United States are saddled with medical debt, which now counts as the largest source of debt in collections – more than credit cards, utilities, and auto loans combined. According to a White House fact sheet, Black and Hispanic households are more likely to hold medical debt than white households.
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Houston’s Restaurant of the Year Is Giving Away a Car to a Single Mom for Mother’s Day
The Greasy Spoon is doing something special for a local single mother for Mother’s Day.
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Around The Bases: Astros Bats Go Cold In Series Split With Arizona
After a scorching start at the plate against the Los Angeles Angels, where the team scored 20 runs in four games, Houston struggled to get four runs in the last two games against the Diamondbacks, going 14-for-68 from the batter’s box.
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With the BA.2 subvariant on the rise, what's safe and what's not? A medical expert explains
As the United States navigates a third year of the Covid-19 pandemic, cases are rising modestly in the Northeast, Philadelphia has reinstituted an indoor mask mandate and some colleges are requiring masks during the final days of the spring semester.
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3 former police officers charged in George Floyd's death reject plea deal
Three former Minneapolis police officers set to stand trial on state charges in George Floyd's death have rejected a plea deal with prosecutors, the Minnesota attorney general's office told CNN.
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Their Brooklyn neighborhood felt like a safe haven in a big city. Tuesday's subway attack changed that
John Acevedo woke up to a commotion outside. Not so strange for a New Yorker, perhaps, but unheard of in his neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, far off the tourist path. The 20-year-old could make out the sounds of sirens on the street, helicopters overhead. When he stepped outside his front door, he found himself in the middle of chaos.
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White House taps top HHS lawyer as No. 2 Covid response official
The White House has tapped Lisa Barclay, the Department of Health and Human Service's deputy general counsel, to serve as its deputy coronavirus response coordinator, a White House official said.
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Father, son rescued after crashing down 500-foot cliff
- A Rancho Cordova father and son were rescued after their car plunged 500 feet down a cliff along Highway 49 in Mariposa County.
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CDC to extend federal transportation mask mandate for additional 15 days
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to extend the federal transportation mask mandate for another 15 days to early May, according to a Biden administration official familiar with the decision.
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Dorm room broken into as residents slept, police say
UC Santa Cruz Interim Chief of Police issued a community alert Tuesday after a dorm room at College Ten was broken into as the people inside slept.
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Sheriff: Attempted kidnapping suspect told boy he was cute, tried to get him into car
A man accused of attempting to kidnap a child in Orange County on Monday is expected to face a judge Wednesday. Vinh Nguyen, 37, was arrested on charges of false imprisonment, luring of a child and battery.
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Cedric McMillan, star bodybuilder, dead at 44
Bodybuilder Cedric McMillan has died at the age of 44, his sponsor confirmed Tuesday.
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TV show theme song helps family reunite with lost pet
Losing a pet can be heartbreaking for a family. But with a little luck and some help from a few strangers, a Lancaster County family found its missing pet.
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2 men face more than 14 years in prison for a Minnesota mosque bombing
Two Illinois men were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in the 2017 bombing of the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.
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How Republicans could still screw up the best political environment in 30 years
Mitch McConnell is feeling pretty good right about now. During an appearance at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, the Senate minority leader said that the "atmosphere for Republicans is better than it was in 1994," when the party won control of both the House and Senate in a wave election. "From an atmospheric point of view, it's a perfect storm of problems for Democrats because it's an entirely Democratic government," added McConnell.
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Austria's Chancellor met with Putin to 'confront' him with atrocities he saw in Ukraine
Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer said he went to Moscow to "look in President Putin's eyes and confront him with what I saw" in Ukraine, he told CNN Wednesday.
