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The 'Game of Thrones' character originally slated to survive
There was lots of death in the final season of "Game of Thrones," but one character who got killed was actually supposed to survive the carnage.
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Rapper Meek Mill says Las Vegas Cosmopolitan hotel is 'racist as hell' after they turned him away
Meek Mill is asking Twitter for "lawyers ASAP" after a run-in with the hotel staff of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
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JLS singer Oritsé Williams cleared of raping fan
JLS singer Oritsé Williams has been cleared of raping a woman after a 2016 concert. Williams and his tour manager Jamien Nagadhana, both 32, were charged by police in September, over allegations of a sexual offence in a hotel room in Wolverhampton, England.
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Trump says he's not 'personally bothered' by North Korea missile tests
President Donald Trump refused to back away from his positive assessment of North Korea on Monday, saying he wasn't "personally bothered" by the regime's recent short-range missile tests despite the contradictory views of his Japanese hosts and his own national security adviser.
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Trump says Rolling Thunder ride will return to DC, organizers say not so fast
As hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists arrive in the nation's capital Sunday to participate in the final Rolling Thunder, where they pay tribute to service members killed in action or taken as prisoners of war, President Donald Trump says the event will continue next year -- even as the group's president says the annual event is set to end.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets with unidentified members of Bikers for Trump during the annual Rolling Thunder First Amendment Demonstration Run May 29, 2016 …
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Pete Buttigieg says he wants to 'live a life that's worthy' of fellow service members
Calling Memorial Day "a day beyond politics," Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday reflected on the holiday's meaning and paid tribute to the members of the military he served with in Afghanistan.
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A private group says it's started building its own border wall using millions donated in GoFundMe campaign
A group that raised millions of dollars in a GoFundMe campaign says it has broken ground on a project to build its own stretch of border wall on private property.
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'He's going to have to earn it': Can Joe Biden hold on to his place as Democratic front-runner?
Joe Biden promises in nearly every speech he makes that "no one is going to work harder" to earn votes in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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Here's the next political truism that Trump might overturn
The 2020 election may test as never before one of the most enduring rules of presidential politics, the straightforward four-word maxim coined by Democratic strategist James Carville in 1992: "It's the economy, stupid."
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NFL star J.J. Watt announces engagement to soccer player Kealia Ohai
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt and Houston Dash forward Kealia Ohai made their engagement official on Sunday.
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Aushanae Haller - North Houston Early College High School
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Yoana Pineda - Houston MSTC
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Patrice Stubblefield - Houston Academy for International Studies
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“Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century” by Lorene Cary
You were their hope for the future. For your elders, your birth represented things they wished would happen but that they’d never know. It was a joy for them to see you come into the world but for you, as in the new book “Ladysitting” by Lorene Cary, it’s harder to see them go.
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Why are Tony Buzbee and Bill King Attacking Our Black Elected Officials?
“Corrupt” “Vindictive” “Show pony” “Petty” “Pay to play politics” “Dictator.”
These are just a few of the epithets being hurled at Mayor Sylvester Turner by his two opponents in the November city elections.
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Texas House Passes 'Save Chick-fil-A' bill Critics Say Will Discriminate Against LGBTQ Community
The Texas House passed legislation on Tuesday that supporters say provides religious protections, but Democrats and critics argue would allow discrimination against the state's LGBTQ community.
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XFL Commissioner & CEO Oliver Luck and Houston XFL Head Coach June Jones
Published on May 24, 2019
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XFL Returns to Houston
Oliver Luck stood at the podium and flashed his huge smile that most Houstonians remember from his time as a quarterback for the Houston Oilers, CEO of Houston Sports Authority, and President/GM of the Houston Dynamo. Luck was in town to announce the new coach and general manager of the XFL team that will begin play in Houston at TDEC Stadium at the beginning of 2020.
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Survey: Teen Girls’ Interest in STEM Careers Declines
New Survey by Junior Achievement Asks Teens about Career and Job Goals
A new survey by Junior Achievement (JA) conducted by the research group Engine shows that only 9 percent of girls between ages of 13 and 17 are interested in careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). This is down from 11 percent from a similar survey in 2018. Teen boys’ interest in STEM careers increased slightly to 27 percent, up from 24 percent in 2018. The survey of 1,004 teens was conducted from April 16 to 21, 2019.
