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Only 14 of 254 counties in Texas employ a medical examiner, while the rest rely on a justice of the peace.

KXAN investigators take listeners on a winding path along Backbone Creek and the mystery behind a young girl’s strangulation in 1965.

KXAN investigates efforts underway to strengthen and modernize this system, as our discoveries also reveal potential gaps in its oversight and prompt a new review of the last day Daynon Lewis was alive.

Nearly 60 years later, the mystery of a girl's strangulation now brings to light concerns over the influence some in the Texas judicial system have to determine cause and manner of death – with scant training and sporadic oversight.

Raymond Zhao and Janet Kim—also known as the TikTok-famous couple @RayandJanny—paid homage to their Chinese and Korean roots for their wedding at Oheka Castle, a French chateau-inspired estate in Huntington, New York

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Rafael Campos smiles after winning the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship. | Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images

Rafael Campos had an incredible week before even making it to Bermuda, and then he capped it off with his first career PGA Tour victory.

A man has pleaded guilty to being the owner of a dangerously out-of-control XL bully dog which killed his neighbour.

Meri Brown wants what she’s owed from her ex Kody Brown. The former couple, who originally married in 1990, have officially split after years of estrangement, and on the Nov. 17 episode of Sister...

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1. What to expect during SpaceX's 6th Starship test flight on Nov. 19  Space.com
2. Starship launch: Megarocket to fly for 6th time from SpaceX's Starbase in Texas  USA TODAY
3. Elon Musk's SpaceX Delays Starship Test Flight, Next Attempt Now Set For Tuesday  Benzinga
4. Starship preparations as rollouts begin ahead of full stack testing  NASASpaceflight.com
5. Starship Flight 6: SpaceX shifts launch to Tuesday  Space Explored

Old age has become a strangely tangled subject in the United States. Even after Joe Biden delivered one of the worst debate performances in recent history, his defenders routinely denounced his critics as ageist. The same thing happened with Senator Dianne Feinstein: Three years after The New Yorker reported that the then 87-year-old’s cognitive decline was an open secret and source of concern on the Hill, public debate over whether she should resign was still dogged by accusations of age discrimination. Читать дальше...

The mainstream press has been criticized for normalizing, or “sanewashing,” Donald Trump and his political allies. Having spent my career migrating back and forth between “straight news” and opinion journalism, I take a more sympathetic view. Reporting the news without expressing your personal opinion imposes valuable discipline. Among other benefits, it minimizes facile shortcuts, which are opinion journalism’s principal vice (and the lingua franca of social media).

As destructive as the next Trump administration will be, it’ll be productive in one critical sense: creating lots of things to get mad about. For some of us, that means having a lot to write about, too. By “us” I mean journalists tasked with reporting  and/or responding to the news of the day. Plenty of advocacy groups also work this way, as evidenced by the dozens of press statements that flood into my inbox every time Trump and his transition team make an announcement: that Elon Musk and Vivek... Читать дальше...

Spooks guarding Prince William have warned the future King that he is still a target for IRA dissident groups after he was booed by pro-Palestine supporters.

When pulling up to a fast food drive-thru, customers usually expect the interaction to follow a predictable routine.

SpaceX is targeting Tuesday (Nov. 19) for the launch of its sixth Starship flight test, during a 30-minute launch window that opens at 5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT).

Matt Gaetz, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Pete Hegseth should be easy for Senate Republicans to reject from being in Donald Trump's second term Cabinet.

Members of the North Fork Community Choir in Paonia, Colo., aim to set aside their opinions on big topics when they sing. When differences arise, they figure out creative solutions to stay in harmony.

Living on a luxury cruise ship had always been on one woman's bucket list. She just had to convince her husband first.

There are many open questions regarding how the new Trump administration will handle economic policies. Some leaders of the repairability movement aren’t all that worried about it.

The chef influencer is launching into the world of packaged good with a line of flavored mayos.

A facelift to Ebay’s UX inspired a new brand that’s less cluttered and more human.

A trial in Minnesota for two men accused of helping smuggle people across the U.S.-Canada border, including four members of an Indian family who froze to death in Manitoba as they tried to make it across in 2022, starts this morning with jury selection.

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This vintage, tattered cat automata perfectly describes how I feel before I've had my morning coffee. The cat automata looks like it's on its last legs with its gaping mouth and tortured looking eyeballs.  — Read the rest

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