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Here’s your Election Day forecast


November 3, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — More award-winning weather is coming to Southeast Texas this week. If you are heading to the polls early Tuesday for Election Day, take a jacket, because temperatures will be in the mid 40s in the morning. I cast my vote for more of this weather! https://t.co/kYz1z4P7gd pic.twitter.com/mLlixa8LlJ — Travis Herzog (@TravisABC13) November 2, 2020   After that, the nice, …

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Houston ranks No. 3 for people struggling the most financially, study says


November 3, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas — During the pandemic-produced recession, debt and loans are weighing heavily on the hearts and minds of Houstonians. A study released this week by personal finance website WalletHub found Houston ranks first among the country’s 100 largest United States cities for online searches about debt and first for online searches about loans. Overall, Houston ranks third for financial …

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What a new Houston Methodist study says about COVID-19 mutation


November 3, 2020

With concerns that America is starting to see an uptick in COVID-19 cases, we’re learning more about how the virus has mutated. The Houston Methodist researchers study was recently published in mBio, one of the leading journals for the American Society for Microbiology. We’re less than a month away from Thanksgiving, and gatherings could only make it easier for the virus to …

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Prosecutors allege contractor overcharged Houston ISD $6 million in scheme with former COO


November 3, 2020

HOUSTON (KTRK) — A landscaping business allegedly billed the Houston Independent School District $6 million for work it was contracted to perform, but never completed, according to a filing in federal court this week. Federal investigators say Southwest Wholesale LLC, which contracts with HISD, overbilled the district hundreds of thousands of dollars annually from 2013 to February 2020, when the …

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Experts warn voters to prepare for Election days, not just Election Day


November 3, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Election night could turn into election week, according to political experts. In three of the last five presidential elections, 2000, 2004 and 2016, the count went past midnight and this year is expected to be no different. The large number of mail-in ballots that have to be verified and the likelihood of close races could slow …

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Muslim Democratic Caucus of Texas ran a full campaign in Texas.


November 3, 2020

by: Raja Zahid Khanzada Dallas:Muslim Democratic Caucus of Texas ran a full campaign in Texas. The group ran final robocall messages to Muslim community in Texas in multiple languages. According to the details Muslim Caucus ran its last campaign on the election evening where they sent phone calls to 16,000 Muslim voters who have still to vote. Muslim Democratic Caucus …

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Stocks plunge as rising Covid cases heighten lockdown fears


November 2, 2020

Stocks on the Pakistan Stock Exchange plunged once again on Monday, an almost identical trajectory to the one witnessed on the previous trading day (Thursday), as rising Covid-19 cases in the country and around the world rattled investor sentiment, pushing the benchmark index down approximately 1,000 points within an hour of the opening bell. The KSE-100 index was down 963.74 …

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The rise of social media marketing


November 2, 2020

The use of social media is growing at an exponential rate globally and Pakistan is no exception. In fact, in Pakistan, the requirements for social media usage are near perfect. About 65 per cent of our population is under 35 years and 50pc is under 22 years. This means a tech-savvy, app-driven youth cohort, whose principal medium of dealing with …

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