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SportsPHOENIX, Ariz. — The Houston Rockets clawed all the way back from a 19-point first-half deficit Saturday night, but the trip home to Houston, Texas, comes after a 102-99 loss to the Phoenix Suns, who closed the game on a late burst from Devin Booker.…
Business
HOUSTON, Texas — MD Anderson Cancer Center plans to spend $3.4 billion on two new buildings at its Texas Medical Center campus in Houston, a cancer treatment tower and a radiation and imaging center that together would add close to 2 million square feet of space. Both buildings are planned…
From Merger Monday
The New Orleans City Council approved a 45-year tax arrangement on Thursday for the planned Omni New Orleans, one of the last local steps for a $625 million convention headquarters hotel across from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rather than paying a conventional property-tax bill, the Dallas-based developers would make…
From Merger Monday
Fox Corp. borrowed $10.4 billion on Friday as it completed its roughly $22 billion purchase of Roku Inc., drawing $2 billion under an amended term loan and $8.4 billion under a new bridge facility to cover part of the cash it owed Roku holders. An 8-K filed with the Securities and…
Politics
AUSTIN, Texas — Houston Democrat Senfronia Thompson told reporters at the Texas Capitol on Friday that she has lined up a majority of the Texas House behind her bid for speaker, putting the veteran lawmaker on track to lead the chamber when the next session opens in January. If she…
Politics
HOUSTON, Texas — Mayor John Whitmire signed a Friday executive order that resets when city officers may phone federal immigration agents, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security pushed back the same afternoon, saying weaker local teamwork could put more federal officers on Houston streets. Under the revised Houston Police…
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