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UPDATE: Cuba: 3 Survivors ‘Critical’ After Crash Of Jet Carrying 110

Associated Press

Posted on May 18, 2018 · Relatives of those who died gathered at a morgue in the capital, as investigators tried to piece together why the aging Boeing 737 went down and erupted in flames shortly after takeoff early Friday afternoon

Tags Crash cuba Cuba Plane Crash havana plane

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US Tourist Fears He Was Hit In Cuba, Years Before Diplomats

Josh Lederman, Associated Press

Posted on October 19, 2017 · The State Department has received reports of several citizens who visited Cuba and say they've developed symptoms similar to what embassy victims experienced

Tags cuba diplomats havana Tourist U.S. US government

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United Airlines To Offer Nonstop Flight From Houston To Havana

Florian Martin

Posted on July 7, 2016 · Houston is one of 10 cities the U.S. Department of Transportation chose for the connection.

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Biden administration extending Title 42 migrant expulsions, says Mexican government

Dan Katz, Texas Public Radio / Yvette Benavides, Texas Public Radio

Posted on October 12, 2022 · Numbers have been increasing; up to 660 Venezuelans have been crossing every day in El Paso alone.

Tags cuba migrants Nicaragua title 42 Venezuala

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A driver was behind the wheel at the time of a Houston-area Tesla crash, report says

TOM KRISHER, Associated Press

Posted on October 21, 2021 · A driver was behind the wheel when a Tesla electric car crashed and burned last April near Houston, killing two men, neither of whom was found in the driver’s seat.

Tags autopilot Crash Elon Musk Spring Tesla Tesla Model S U.S. National Transportation Safety Board

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Hurricane Ida Strikes Louisiana; New Orleans Hunkers Down

Kevin McGill, AP / Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Posted on August 26, 2021 · The Category 4 storm hit Sunday with winds of 150 mph. It was the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.

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New Houston ‘Vision Zero’ Plan Aims To End Traffic Deaths By 2030

Gail Delaughter / Paul DeBenedetto

Posted on December 16, 2020 · Between 2014 and 2018, 1,153 people were killed by Houston drivers, the mayor said.

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