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![In this photo provided by the NHRA, Doug Kalitta does a burnout in Top Fuel at the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals drag races at World Wide Technology Raceway on Oct. 4 in Madison, Ill. Kalitta won for the fourth time at the St. Louis-area track, beating Steve Torrence in the final round with a 3.690-second run at 322.58 mph.]()
Drag racer slams into spectators in Texas; 2 killed, 5 hurtFour people were airlifted to hospitals in San Antonio.
Houston & Texas
![In this photo provided by the NHRA, Doug Kalitta does a burnout in Top Fuel at the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals drag races at World Wide Technology Raceway on Oct. 4 in Madison, Ill. Kalitta won for the fourth time at the St. Louis-area track, beating Steve Torrence in the final round with a 3.690-second run at 322.58 mph.]()
Drag racer slams into spectators in Texas; 2 killed, 5 hurtFour people were airlifted to hospitals in San Antonio.
National News
![A car drives on Highway 101, which is partially flooded in Corte Madera, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021.]()
Forecasters say California storm could bring 'historic' rainSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A powerful storm roared ashore Sunday in Northern California, flooding highways, toppling trees and causing mud flows in areas burned bare by recent fires as forecasters...![A bouquet of flowers is left to honor cinematographer Halyna Hutchins outside the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. Hutchins died after actor Alec Baldwin fired a fatal gunshot from a prop gun that he had been told was safe.]()
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
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![A caravan of migrants, mostly from Central America, head north along coastal highway just outside of Huehuetan at Chiapas State, Mexico, on Sunday, October 24, 2021.]()
2,000 migrants continue walk through southern MexicoHUEHUETAN, Mexico (AP) — A group of about 2,000 mainly Central American migrants continued their mass trek from the southern Mexico city of Tapachula on Sunday, reaching a town about 16 miles (26...By MARCO UGARTE
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![President Joe Biden departs the White House to board Marine One on Oct. 15. Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, will travel to the Vatican later this week.]()
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![The west coast of Mexico is bracing for Hurricane Pamela.]()
Texas woman, child found dead due to Hurricane Pamela floodingPamela made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast early Wednesday and moved inland into central Texas and southeastern Oklahoma.
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![FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, file photo, law enforcement officers walk in the parking lot of Timberview High School after a shooting inside the school located in south Arlington, Texas. A 15-year-old injured in the Timberview High School shooting earlier this month was released from the hospital over the weekend, Arlington police said.]()
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![Eliza Paul (left), Texas Department of Transportation's engineer for the Houston district, and Laura Ryan, who sits on the Texas Transportation Commission, will speak at Thursday's high-dollar "State of TxDOT" luncheon hosted by the Transportation Advocacy Group.]()
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![In this September 2021 photo provided by NYU Langone Health, a surgical team at the hospital in New York examines a pig kidney attached to the body of a deceased recipient for any signs of rejection. From left are Drs. Zoe A. Stewart-Lewis, Robert A. Montgomery, Bonnie E. Lonze and Jeffrey Stern. The test was a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. (Joe Carrotta/NYU Langone Health via AP)]()
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![This undated photo provided by the Smith County Jail shows William George Davis. Davis, a former nurse who was fired last month from a Texas hospital, is being held on a murder charge after one patient died and two others slipped into vegetative states. The Texas Board of Nursing in March suspended Davis' license after determining he entered three patients' rooms at Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital in Tyler and "performed an intervention" that either killed or critically harmed them. (Smith County Jail via AP)]()
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![MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 14: Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo speaks to reporters outside City Hall after city commissioners voted to fire him on October 14, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The firing comes just six months into the job after Acevedo penned a letter accusing three of the commissioners of interfering with reform efforts and a confidential internal investigation, according to a published report.]()
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![Consul General of France Valerie Baraban presents Ruth Steinfeld with the French Legion of Honor in the Holocaust Museum Houston on Sunday, Oct.17, 2021, in Houston.]()
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![FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2018, file photo, the 1935 statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, by sculptor Alexander Phimister, sits in storage at Hensley Field, the former Naval Air Station on the west side of Mountain Creek Lake in Dallas. The statue of Lee, which the city of Dallas removed from a park and later sold in an online auction, is now on display at a golf resort in West Texas, the Houston Chronicle reported, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)]()
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![United States Secret Service special agents wait outside the University of California Irvine Medical Center is seen in Orange, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. Former President Bill Clinton is the UC Irvine Medical Center hospital in California being treated for a non-COVID-related infection, a spokesman said Thursday night.]()
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![A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the LUCY spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Lucy, will observe Trojan asteroids, a unique family of asteroids that orbit the sun in front of and behind Jupiter.]()
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![Harris County Medical Examiner van exits the Memorial Hermann Hospital transporting a Harris County Pct. 4 deputy who was shot and killed to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Houston. Three constable deputies were shot in an ambush early Saturday morning while working an extra shift at a Houston bar. Authorities took one person into custody but were still searching for a man believed to be the shooter, Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief James Jones told reporters. (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via AP)]()
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![A Medical Center Hospital patient under the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service died Monday following a shooting.]()
