California’s first-in-the-nation reparations task force met for a final time in a crowded hearing room in Sacramento Thursday.

A task force which included Texas City Police have arrested a suspect connected to a fatal Texas City shooting which happened on May 31.

A fugitive accused of shooting and killing a man in north Houston in April has been arrested in a small Tennesee town, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

A horse was rescued from rising flood waters in Montgomery Sunday.

California's first-in-the-nation task force studying reparations for Black residents is meeting in Oakland to discuss potential eligibility requirements and what form reparations could take.

In San Antonio on Wednesday, Governor Greg Abbott’s Texas Task Force for Concert Safety met for the fifth time in less than two months. Friday afternoon Brendon Anthony, the Chair of the Task Force, spoke with KPRC 2 Investigates, admitting many are watching the recommendations the committee is working on closely.

A French senior naval officer says the Islamic State group is using stealth to regenerate its forces by developing its military capabilities underground and France is deploying its warships and aircraft in the region to help troops on the ground root out the threat.

As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, the government mobilized all the resources it could. Some of the home’s residents, suddenly confined to their rooms or their floor, were bewildered and chafed at restrictions, even trying to take the elevator and escape confinement. The soldiers’ mission: fan out across the country to visit hundreds of nursing homes and help shore up their defenses against the pandemic. On top of that, nursing home staff in Portugal commonly work in several different care homes and travel between them on public transport. They have already been to more than half of the targeted 2,770 care homes.

FILE - In this May 7, 2019 file photo, first lady Melania Trump arrives for a one year anniversary event for her Be Best initiative in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Melania Trump has announced plans to renovate the White House Rose Garden. Melania Trump on Monday announced details of a plan already underway to spruce up the White House Rose Garden, an iconic outdoor space famous for its proximity to the Oval Office. She used the Rose Garden to announce her “Be Best” youth program in May 2018. The White House did not provide a cost estimate.

Thats what Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking in a 10-minute survey to be completed by Saturday, June 27. Responses to this survey, which are anonymous, will provide the City of Houston with information regarding the ways the coronavirus pandemic has impacted residents lives. Initiative and Task Force. Initiative and Task Force, launched in April 2020, is a component of the City of Houstons COVID-19 Response and Recovery Effort, especially for vulnerable and at-risk populations. Task Force to push more resources into the Houston neighborhoods that are most at-risk for community spread of the COVID-19 disease, Turner is quoted saying in a news release.