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(The Center Square) – Three Muslim men have been charged in connection to a shooting at a youth baseball complex in Katy, Texas, a suburb west of Houston. Shots were fired into the Ameripark youth baseball field, known as “The Rac,” when a youth baseball tournament was being played. Video obtained by KPRC 2 NBC News shows adults and children running away from the fields; “12-year-old Texas Colts players in light blue jerseys [were] running frantically for cover as bullets flew past them,” the news outlet reported. A 27-year-old coach was struck in the shoulder, taken to the hospital and...

Five people were burned when a boiler exploded at a hotel under construction in Downtown Houston, officials say. What we know: According to the Houston Fire Department, the incident occurred at a Holiday Inn that is under construction at Texas Avenue and Austin Street around 11 a.m

Today, Planned Parenthood is closing its Houston, Texas abortion facility that was the biggest abortion center in North America. Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast announced in July that it would close two Houston-area abortion centers, including its 78,000-square-foot Prevention Park facility, once the largest abortion center in the Western Hemisphere. That closing will happen today and hundreds, if not thousands, of pro-life Texans will be on hand to celebrate. The Houston Coalition for Life is hosting two special vigils today. “The events will both honor the lives lost to abortion within the building and celebrate the closure of Planned Parenthood’s Prevention...

Despite a Houston area baseball facility initially claiming Muslim men shooting into a 12-yaer-old baseball game was “recreational shooting,” the Department of Homeland Security says the men are dangerous criminals. DHS also says two of the men never should have been allowed into the country or been granted the immigration status they were by the Biden administration. Three Muslim men were charged last week with felonies after they allegedly fired rounds toward a youth baseball complex in Katy, Texas, a suburb west of Houston. Shots were fired into the Ameripark youth baseball field, known as “The Rac,” when a youth...

A disturbing Halloween display in Houston appears to show effigies of federal immigration agents wearing red MAGA-like hats hanging from gallows — drawing backlash just days after surging anti-ICE rhetoric led to a deadly shooting at an agency facility in Dallas. The shocking front-yard display in the majority-Hispanic Second Ward neighborhood in Harris County showed the red hat-wearing mannequins strung up on a noose from homemade gallows that featured a small Mexican flag, Fox News reported. The figures’ attire — black shirts, tan pants and face masks with zip ties in their pockets — drew comparisons to Immigration and Customs...

A Houston youth baseball coach was nearly gunned down earlier this week while kneeling before God with his young players in a senseless crime. As Fox News reported, a coach for the Texas Colts was in a pregame prayer with his players on Sunday when three people fired gunshots in their direction from a nearby pasture. Video of the incident obtained by local news outlets shows the 12-year-old players running to safety while the bullets fly. One adult is struck and collapses to the ground next to home plate.

Shanghai Academy acts as a front for Chinese spy recruitment, according to FBI The Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington, D.C., think tank, partnered with a Shanghai policy center that the FBI has described as a front for China’s intelligence and spy recruitment operations, according to public records and federal court documents. The Brookings Doha Center, the think tank’s hub in Qatar, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in January 2018, the institution said. The academy is a policy center funded by the Shanghai municipal government that has raised flags within the FBI. The partnership...

It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Houston and you're at your kid's baseball game. The coach is leading the players in prayer before the first inning. Then you hear the shots. Houston Warriors founder Andy Baize said the injured coach was saying a pregame prayer with their team. 'He literally took the bullet for a child that was to his left, and so thankfully we avoided a major disaster. Still very, very emotional over it,' Baize told KHOU 11. The three suspects, Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah did not appear to be targeting the game. They...

Texas was stunned earlier this year when authorities arrested Maria Rojas, who ran an underground abortion clinic. On March 5, Rojas was arrested and is now charged with 15 felonies: 12 for practicing medicine without a license and three for performing illegal abortions. For years, Rojas operated three facilities in Houston. She allegedly tricked women into believing she was a licensed physician when in reality she only had a midwife’s license. Reports say she handed out abortion pills as if she were a doctor, and even went to New Mexico to perform an illegal abortion. Rojas denied everything, but a...

A Houston-area imam has sparked both outrage and concern after launching a campaign to pressure Muslim-owned stores to stop selling pork, alcohol, and lottery tickets. The campaign, led by Imam F. Qasim ibn Ali Khan of Masjid At-Tawhid, was captured in a viral video showing him confronting a store employee and accusing the business of selling 'haram' products forbidden under Islamic law. Khan, who leads a Nation of Islam-affiliated mosque warns business owners they will face boycotts and public protests if they refuse to comply.

You have 30 days to stop selling alcohol and pork.

42-year-old Texas man is facing a murder charge in the shooting of an 11-year-old boy after the victim and his friends banged on the suspect's door late Saturday night in what police described as a "ding-dong-ditch" prank that has been trending on TikTok and other social media platforms, authorities said. The suspect, Leon Gonzalo Jr., was arrested and booked at the Harris County Jail on Tuesday morning, charged with one count of murder, according to Harris County court records.

An 11-year-old boy was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday after he was shot while running from a home he had rung the doorbell on, Houston city officials said. The boy had been ringing doorbells Saturday night in the area and running as part of a game known as “doorbell ditch,” the city said in a statement. “A witness stated the male was running from a house, after ringing the doorbell, just prior to suffering a gunshot wound,” it said. Officers responding to the shooting on the 9700 block of Racine Street released a person who had been detained for...

Despite the ongoing budget concerns, commissioners voted 4–1 this week to allocate funding for the 2025 Gay Softball World Series. The measure, sponsored by Garcia, dedicates $468,610 to the tournament, with Ramsey casting the lone “no” vote. Garcia said the money would come in part from a tourism fund designed to attract events that bring visitors to the county. However, while part of the funding does come from that tourism fund, the other part comes from Precinct 2’s General Fund—largely supported by property taxes. In effect, at least 50 percent of the $468,610 will come from local property tax revenue...

Oil giant Shell USA allegedly ousted all the white employees from its corporate security team in Houston — replacing them with less qualified people of color in what amounted to a discriminatory purge, according to a bombshell lawsuit. Kevin Taylor and Gulf War veteran Michelle Romak, who are both white, claim they were booted from their jobs earlier this year despite each having more than a decade of relevant experience at Shell, according to the lawsuit filed in the US Southern District of Texas on Tuesday. They are suing Shell and Wayne Hunt, a regional security manager – alleging they...

A Chinese doctor was busted at a Texas airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle US-funded cancer research back to his home country – and could face federal charges for the brazen theft. Yunhai Li, 35, was nabbed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on July 9 after border patrol discovered the sensitive confidential medical records on his laptop during an inspection ahead of his flight to China, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. The Chinese national, who was employed as a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center since 2022, was reportedly working on a vaccine to prevent...

Two masked suspects who allegedly impersonated police officers were shot and killed by a homeowner in Houston on Friday night after they attempted to enter a residence under false pretenses, according to local news station KHOU and the Houston Police Department (HPD). Newsweek reached out to the HPD via email on Saturday for comment. **SNIP** What To Know The incident occurred around 11 p.m. on Bellnole Drive in southeast Houston, according to the HPD, with both suspects, believed to be in their 30s, pronounced dead at the scene after exchanging gunfire with the homeowner. The suspects approached the home claiming...

Shenghua Wen, 42, received around $2 million (€1.7 million) from North Korean officials to ship firearms and ammunition from California. A Chinese national in California has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shipping firearms and ammunition to North Korea. North Korean officials paid Shenghua Wen around $2 million (€1.7 million) to ship two containers of weapons and other items from Long Beach in California to North Korea via Hong Kong in 2023, according to the US Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. The 42-year-old pleaded guilty in June to one count of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic...

EXCLUSIVE: Despite the US saying we are not accepting Palestinian “refugees” into the United States under the Trump administration, I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas this month. The Palestinians traveled from Gaza to the US with the help of a group called “Heal Palestine”.

Roland Mehrez Beainy, owner of the recently opened Trump Burger restaurant in Houston, is currently facing deportation after failing to leave the U.S. on time and being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE confirmed that Beainy, 28, originally from Lebanon, entered the United States in 2019 on a non-immigrant visitor visa but failed to depart as required by February 12, 2024. He was arrested on May 16, 2025, and placed into immigration proceedings. An immigration judge granted him bond on June 13 while his case continues. Trump-inspired burger joint just opened in Houston — Here’s what you can...