The Sherman school board also temporarily ended the superintendent oversight of its fine arts programs pending the results of the investigation.

After Max Hightower scored a role in the seminal American musical, administrators changed their policy on performers’ gender. After backlash, the school board directed the school to produce the original version “Oklahoma!” — not a youth version that cut Hightower’s solo.

A trip to the grocery store has become more expensive for everyone. Even nonprofits like Families Helping Families are struggling to provide food to those in need due to rising costs.

A Katy woman said she’s scared for her life after getting threats because someone hacked into her Facebook account, pretending to sell items she’s never even seen before.

The Biden administration's number two diplomat is retiring after decades of U.S. government service.

Prince Harry’s “Spare” has sold more than 3.2 million copies worldwide after just one week of publication and will likely rank among the among the bestselling memoirs of all time.

No, the public has not tired of hearing about Prince Harry.

Officials from the United States and its Asian allies Japan and South Korea suspect North Korea is preparing for a nuclear test.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman is warning North Korea against escalating its provocations.

The United States is doubling down on its investment in the Pacific.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has met with her counterparts from South Korea and Japan, emphasizing the U.S. commitment to defend its allies and trilateral security cooperation to confront an accelerating nuclear threat from North Korea.

Gov. Greg Abbott continued to make his rounds to visit the hardest-hit areas of Texas impacted by the severe weather.

A U.S.-sponsored show of alliance with Japan and South Korea has stumbled after American diplomats apparently couldn’t convince their Asian allies to share a news conference stage.

The United States and Pakistan have held difficult talks over the path forward in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan at a time when relations between the two countries are shaky.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have long threatened to sue school districts that defy Abbott’s ban on local mask mandates. On Friday, Paxton made good on that threat.

A senior U.S. diplomat has called on China to rise above their differences and work with the United States on difficult global issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic as a responsible global power.

High-level face-to-face talks between U.S. and Chinese diplomats have highlighted sharp differences between the sides.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to China on a visit that comes as tensions between Washington and Beijing soar.

A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he’d get their charges reduced in exchange for cash.

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Officials say the European Union is completing plans to allow American tourists to travel to the 27-nation bloc this summer.

U.S. prosecutors say a former midfielder for Colombia’s national soccer team has been sentenced in a Texas courtroom to more than 11 years in prison for drug trafficking.

She was speaking of U.S. foreign objectives overall, including the Iran deal. Biden's first priority for renewed talks is getting both Iran and the United States back in compliance with the nuclear deal, which offered Iran relief from sanctions in exchange for Iran accepting limits on its nuclear material and gear. “It would be a first step.”But Biden also faces pressure both from Democrats and Republican opponents of the Iran deal. The United States' European allies will be eager to help Biden wrack up a win on the new Iran talks if possible, Nasr said. Besides tapping Sherman for his administration, Biden has called back William Burns, who led secret early talks with Iran in Oman, as his CIA director.