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The damage comes as questions continue over the growing use of this surveillance technology in public spaces.

Video shows a DoorDash driver completing her delivery despite being hit by a car that was fleeing from police in Houston. The surveillance video from July 8 shared by a neighborhood resident shows the delivery driver pulling up in front of a home and beginning to get out of her car. At the same time, sirens can be heard in the distance. While standing outside of her vehicle, another car being pursued by Houston police strikes her and her car. She told police she thought he was going to turn but didn’t. The suspect then gets out and runs away....

Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) jumped to attack ICE after a federal immigration officer shot and killed a Mexican national in Houston who authorities say rammed an ICE vehicle and tried to run over an officer. The Texas Democrat demanded that ICE be “held accountable” and called for a full investigation after the shooting. Her response immediately drew pushback from critics who pointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s claim that the man had used his vehicle as a weapon. The shooting happened Tuesday morning during a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Houston, Texas. The man who died was identified as...

A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning by federal agents in Houston's East End, according to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The victim's family is now disputing ICE's account of what happened. ICE officials said the incident unfolded just before 7 a.m. near the intersection of Canal Street and Wayside Drive. An ICE spokesperson said officers were trying to pull over a vehicle as part of a "targeted enforcement operation." They said the driver of the vehicle they tried to pull over, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, tried to get away. ICE officials said Araujo is here illegally from...

A suspected illegal immigrant who tried to run down an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston on Tuesday morning was shot dead by the agent. ICE said the incident took place at about 6:50 a.m. Central Time, when ICE agents tried to stop a vehicle “as part of a targeted enforcement operation to arrest an illegal alien,” according to KRIV-TV in Houston. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national who was allegedly in the U.S. illegally, was not cooperative, according to ICE. “From information we are receiving, he rammed an ICE law enforcement vehicle, refused to follow multiple verbal commands,...

Questions are being raised over how the daughter of a congresswoman landed a $411,000-a-year council job over three other candidates who reportedly scored better than her in interviews. Erica Lee Carter, 46, the daughter of late Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, was appointed as the Harris County Administrator earlier this year in a hotly contested hiring process with over 400 applicants. The role is one of the best paid government jobs in Harris County, which covers over five million people including the city of Houston, with applications coming from CEOs and politicians across the country. But according to a review...

Rice University, a private research university in Houston, Texas, is offering multiple courses centered on pop star Taylor Swift, including one class examining far-left themes such as “American nationalism and whiteness” through Swift’s lyrics and public image. Rice will offer “COLL 118 Mastermind: The Taylor Swift Eras” this fall, in which students will analyze Swift’s albums as “primary texts” and examine “how a single artist can shape global culture and shift industry standards.” “We will decode the history, narrative themes, and lyrical depth of each distinct ‘Era’ to understand how she builds a cohesive universe through her work,” the course...

A Houston man is facing a felony charge after authorities say he used a fraudulent boarding pass to board a United Airlines flight at George Bush Intercontinental Airport before the aircraft was forced to return to the gate, according to court documents reviewed by Fox News Digital. Abdulrahman Oluwatumike Oriyomi, 25, has been charged with impairing or interrupting the operation of a critical infrastructure facility in connection with the May 18 incident, according to a criminal complaint filed in Harris County. Prosecutors later sought a $25,000 bond, arguing that the alleged incident delayed a flight carrying a full plane of...

A Dangerous Foreign Islamist Network Today Operates Openly in Educational Institutions Across Texas, Propelled by Regime-Aligned Activist Groups and Wealthy Khomeinist Mosques June 3, 2026. Sam Westrop. Texas Public Policy Foundation. Children at the Islamic Education Center in Houston perform a song pledging allegiance to Iran’s Supreme Leader. Photo: IEC Houston A Texas Islamist network working to radicalize Shia Muslim students at educational institutions across the state, including Texas public universities, is made up of agents and proxies for the murderous Iranian regime. In March, the Iranian regime and its proxies across the world organized “Al-Quds Day,” a global annual...

HOUSTON, Texas (WKRC) - A constable's office is facing criticism from community members and social media users after posting a mugshot in connection with an arrest. According to a statement issued by Harris County Constable Precinct 2 on Facebook, 28-year-old Fant Jomecia was taken into custody after she allegedly attempted to enter an apartment without permission. Authorities said deputies responded to an apartment complex at 8625 Winkler Drive in Houston, Texas after receiving a report of a suspicious person. Per the statement, management reportedly noticed Jomecia jumping from a balcony in an attempt to enter an apartment unit without the...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a Houston-area care center Wednesday for allegedly running an illegal "birth tourism" operation that helped Chinese nationals come to the state to give birth to babies so they are born in the U.S. Paxton accused the De’Ai Postpartum Care Center of coaching clients who wanted to enter the United States to give birth on how to obtain tourist visas and how to time their trips to ensure they give birth while still in the country, including recommending women apply for a visa before becoming pregnant to avoid detection. The state attorney general claimed the...

The parents of an 18-year-old Lexington, North Carolina, woman charged in connection with an alleged plot to attack a Houston synagogue say their daughter had no means or intention to carry out any attack, describing the online activity that led to her arrest as nothing more than fantasy role-play. Angelina Han Hicks was arrested on Wednesday by the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and faces two felony conspiracy counts after investigators alleged she and co-conspirators planned a mass-casualty attack at Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Houston. A juvenile was separately charged in Harris County, Texas. Her father, Dannie Hicks, speaking in...

Houston Police Officers’ Union: “In no way does the HPOU or its leadership condone or tolerate racist behavior from any of our officers.”A Houston police officer has been relieved of duty after a video circulating on social media allegedly shows her making offensive, racist remarks, according to the Houston Police Department. Officer Ashley Gonzalez was sworn in in January 2024 and assigned to the South Gessner Patrol Division. She has been relieved of duty pending an investigation, an HPD source confirmed Tuesday morning. Gonzalez was identified as the speaker in a video of a racist rant that has gone viral...

Governor Abbott is dead serious about sanctuary cities. First, he signed a law back in 2017 making sanctuary cities illegal. He is back reminding Houston that there are consequences when you don’t work with ICE or don’t obey the law he signed. Check this out: Millions of dollars in public safety funding have been frozen for Houston following a recent change in the city’s immigration policy, according to city officials. Houston Mayor John Whitmire’s office confirmed the update to ABC13 on Tuesday, saying the state had froze [sic] nearly $115 million in public safety funding. During a meeting, Whitmire added...

A man who had a history of impersonating law enforcement has been arrested in a 1990 cold case double murder known as the "Lovers' Lane" killings, authorities said. Floyd William Parrott, 64, is charged with capital murder for the killings of Cheryl Henry, 22, and Garland "Andy" Atkinson, 21, Houston police said. The victims' car was found parked in a cul-de-sac on Aug. 23, 1990, police said. Henry and Atkinson, who had been dating for a few weeks, were found near the car, according to court documents. Both of their necks were cut with knives and they were tied up...

A man accused of hiring a hitman to take out US politicians, including President Donald Trump, says he was pressured by Iran's elite ​Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to devise the plot. A man accused of plotting to kill US President Donald Trump and other top politicians told the court on Wednesday he was pressured by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to organise their assassinations. Pakistan national Asif Raza Merchant, 47, was charged in September 2024 with seeking to hire a hitman to assassinate unidentified US politicians. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. The IRGC — Iran's elite...

For generations, the conventional wisdom went something like this: serious money lives in New York. The serious decisions about who gets capital, who gets to list on an exchange, who gets to participate in the grand machinery of American finance—all of it emanated from a few square miles of lower Manhattan, governed by institutions so entrenched they seemed geological. Wall-Street wasn’t just an address. It was a statement about where power lived and who held it. That era is ending. And the remarkable thing isn’t simply that it’s ending — it’s why it’s ending, and what that tells us about...

Most of the country saw population growth slow down or even reverse in 2025, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals. Of the country’s more than 3,000 counties, about 80% saw declining population or slower growth between July 2024 and July 2025. Counties that were already shrinking also saw that trend accelerate. One major reason for the drop, according to the agency, was a significant decline in international immigration to the U.S. in the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term. The biggest swings were along the U.S.-Mexico border. Laredo, Texas; Yuma, Arizona; and El Centro, California, all...

On July 27, 2022, a video was posted to the IslamicTV YouTube channel of Shiite children in Houston, TX performing a song titled “Salute, Commander”, which is an Iranian children’s anthem pledging allegiance to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The video had been first posted by the Islamic Education Center of Houston, TX, on its Facebook and YouTube accounts, but these posts were later removed. The children performed the song in English and Farsi. The song’s lyrics say: “[Khamenei] is calling on his children, his soldiers… In spite of my age, I will be your army’s commander… May my father...

A suspected meteorite crashed through the roof of a woman's home in Houston.Authorities believe it may have been a piece of a three-foot meteor that was seen over the area on Saturday afternoon.>>>Initially, Ellingham's team told James that the rock had likely fallen from a plane, before leaving her home. They returned a short time later and revised their hypothesis, now saying it likely was part of the meteor.James said she was a little scared during the impact, but added that she's definitely going to keep the rock, which she described as being very heavy. NASA has since confirmed there...