A strong and shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaskan peninsula late on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in the US state and heightened surveillance across the pacific. There were no immediate reports of loss of property or life. Tsunami warning sirens were sounded close to a Walmart store in Kodiak, Alaska, a video filmed by a local resident and …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has directed the deputy commissioner to determine reasons behind the damage to life and property in the wake of slightly above normal rainfall in E-11. The federal minister, who is also the MNA from this area of the capital, has also directed the ICT administration and Capital Development Authority (CDA) …

NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a veiled warning on Wednesday about Indian democracy backsliding in his first official visit to New Delhi. Rights groups say civil liberties and the space for dissent are under increasing attack in the world’s biggest democracy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Antony Blinken told a joint news conference with Foreign …

PTI MPA Nazir Chohan was on Thursday sent into physical remand of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days in connection with a complaint registered by the prime minister’s aide, Shahzad Akbar. Chohan was arrested in Lahore by the FIA on Wednesday on Akbar’s complaint. It was his second arrest in as many days. A day earlier he was taken in custody …

A Forney woman has been accused of assaulting a public servant during an incident the woman’s relatives have called a case of police brutality. Antanique Ray, 41, was arrested Tuesday after a Kaufman County sheriff’s deputy restrained her daughter, 18-year-old Nekia Trigg, as the teenager walked through a Forney neighborhood. Part of the incident was captured on cellphone video, and the …

Front-line health care workers at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas are preparing for another COVID-19 surge. This one, they say, is preventable. More unvaccinated people are being hospitalized with the dangerous delta variant at rates similar to last year’s late-fall spike. “It’s devastating,” said Joseph Chang, Parkland’s chief medical officer. “This is a completely preventable situation this time, and that …

The Dallas Police Department has placed an officer on administrative leave and is conducting a criminal review after he punched a man several times in the face during a street brawl in Deep Ellum. A video circulating on social media shows a large group of men and women fighting near Elm Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. It’s not clear when the incident …

Veteran Waco economist Ray Perryman is used to seeing an annual parade of best for business rankings that put Texas at the top. Those rankings shape perceptions about the state’s business climate — a longtime selling point touted by politicians and economic development specialists alike. That’s why Perryman finds one recent ranking “eerily disturbing.” Texas fell to fourth in business …

A Coppell man was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison for his scheme to obtain nearly $25 million in forgivable loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas announced. The PPP, managed by the Small Business Administration, was created to help keep struggling small businesses afloat during the …

When he addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month in Dallas, former President Donald Trump bragged about his lofty win total in the GOP congressional races in which he’s endorsed a candidate. “Every day, more people are realizing that we were right on all of the key issues, and that this is one reason why our endorsement has …