Texas' most populous county -- Harris County, which is home to Houston -- has filed a lawsuit against state officials challenging the constitutionality of a new law that eliminates the position of local elections administrator, Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee announced Thursday.
Japan's busiest shipping port said Thursday it would resume operations after a ransomware attack prevented the port from receiving shipping containers for two days.
Twitter is threatening Meta with a lawsuit after the blockbuster launch of Meta's new Twitter rival, Threads — in perhaps the clearest sign yet that Twitter views the app as a competitive threat.
After a parent spotted a cracked steel support pillar at the top of a North Carolina roller coaster last week, Carowinds amusement park said in a statement Thursday that its maintenance team is working with the damaged ride's manufacturer.
The Twitter account for the Netflix series "Peaky Blinders" posted a message on Wednesday strongly disapproving of the use of footage of star Cillian Murphy as lead character Thomas Shelby in a Ron DeSantis video targeting the LGBTQ+ community, from the account @Proudelephantus. The video was retweeted by @DeSantisWarRoom, which is a campaign Twitter account for DeSantis' presidential bid.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign raised $20 million during the second fundraising quarter that ended June 30, the campaign announced Thursday.
Race correction in medicine is the use of a patient's race in a scientific equation that can influence how they are treated. Race correction in medicine has pitted medical students against their teachers, attracted the attention of Congress and led to a big lawsuit against the NFL.
A Texas man reported missing eight years ago as a teen actually returned home a day later and has been there all along with his mother, who deceived police by giving fake names and insisting he was gone in the years before his discovery last week at a Houston church, city police said Thursday.
Stocks tumbled on Thursday after fresh data signaled that the labor market remains piping hot, heightening concerns that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates for longer than expected.
When central banks raise interest rates, mortgage borrowers can expect higher monthly repayments, while savers are supposed to be rewarded with bigger returns on their deposits. Or so the theory goes.
The family of an Alabama man who died after a police officer tased him is demanding to view body camera footage of the incident and claims the man was mistakenly apprehended, according to the family's attorney.
A child has been killed after a car crashed into an elementary school in southwest London, injuring six other children and two adults, London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
OceanGate -- the owner of the Titan submersible which imploded during a voyage to the Titanic, killing five -- says it has suspended its exploration and commercial operations, according to its website.
The White House is closely monitoring the upcoming labor talks in the US auto industry, negotiations that could put it at odds with the traditional support of a major union. So President Joe Biden is tapping a trusted adviser, Gene Sperling, to serve as the administration's point person in upcoming labor negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and the nation's three unionized automakers.