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People around the world are protesting in reaction to last Friday's Iranian election results. In short, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. Citing corrupted election results protesters assert that opposing candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi was the actual winner.

As expected, Halliburton's announcement Sunday that it'll establish a corporate headquarters in Dubai and move its CEO there sparked some criticism in Congress yesterday from legislators who claim the company is making the change so it can increase business with Iran and take tax benefits in the U.S. "I think Congress ought to hold hearings to try to determine why one of this country's major defense contractors has decided to move its principal offices offshore,"...

Thanks to our friends at Shanghaiist, we have word of another list Houston's on — but this one doesn't have anything to do with our weight, children, dog poo or gold diggers. No, this has to do with The Economist magazine's Worldwide Cost of Living index, which ranks Houston 47th among the world's 132 most expensive cities in which to live, up one spot from last year's 48th place ranking. Shanghaiist has the details;...

Timothy Randle, one of five people charged in connection with a crime spree that left four people dead, said he is innocent today in an interview with KPRC from his jail cell During the second day of her retrial for drowning her five children, Andrea Yates sobbed this morning as she watched a police video showing her kids' bodies Harris County Republicans nominated Orlando Sanchez, a former city councilman and mayoral candidate, as their candidate...