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Warm Up Fall Meals with Wine

Fall is the perfect time to welcome warm, robust flavors to your kitchen as well as your wine glass. With its bold, spicy, dark fruit flavors, cabernet sauvignon is a perfect wine for crisp fall weather.

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Kellogg's to Replace Racially Insensitive Corn Pops Boxes Following Twitter Call Out

Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging. The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal, and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday it will replace the cover drawing of cartoon characters shaped like corn kernels populating a shopping mall.

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VIPs On Hand As Victims of Hurricane Harvey Shop More than $5 Million in FREE Merchandise

On Saturday, Oct 21 the Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) and Delivering Good launched four free pop-up shop across Houston, providing FREE, private shopping experiences to families impacted by Hurricane Harvey.

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Houston Animal Shelter Sets New Standards For Disaster Response

"You can bring your pets.” These five simple words immensely impacted the lives of pets and their human companions during the Hurricane Harvey evacuation and forever altered the blueprint for our nation's disaster response.

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Attention Graduating HS Seniors: The Tom Joyner Foundation Now Accepting Applications Full Ride Scholarship Program

The Tom Joyner Foundation® announced the ‘Full Ride’ scholarship program that will cover all the expenses of one student planning to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the fall of 2018.

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R.I.P. Robert Guillaume, 89, Emmy-Award Winning Actor and Star of “Benson”

Emmy Award-winning actor Robert Guillaume, best known as the title character in the TV sitcom “Benson,” died Tuesday. He was 89. His wife Donna Brown Guillaume told the Associated Press he died at their Los Angeles home of complications of prostate cancer. Guillaume often played acerbic, dry-witted, but ultimately lovable characters like the butler Benson Du Bois, which he created on the 1977 series “Soap,” before his character was spun off in 1979. Guillaume won Emmys both for “Soap” (as supporting actor) and “Benson” (as lead actor).

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Bob Corker's 9 Most Devastating Lines On Donald Trump In His CNN Interview, Ranked

Hours before Donald Trump was set to huddle with Senate Republicans to rally support for his tax cut measure, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker delivered an absolute bludgeoning of the President. And even that may be an understatement.

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5 Things for October 25: GOP Senators, Ransomware and National Parks

Already thinking about your big 2018 vacation? Seville, Spain, is No. 1 on a new Top 10 list of the best cities to visit next year. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

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Women Contractors Association Show Appreciation for Elected Officials in the Houston Region

The Women Contractors Association (WCA) held their annual event in celebration and appreciation of elected officials in the Houston region. It was standing-room only as hundreds of elected officials poured into Grappino’s restaurant mingling and networking with the Contractors and guests. Jacquie Baly serving as Mistress of Ceremonies once again recognized and thanked the various Regional leaders for their service.

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Trump Promises Tax Reform Won't Impact 401(k) Plans

President Trump vowed Monday that the tax break for 401(k) plans will be kept in place under the administration's tax reform proposal, despite reports to the contrary.

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Ruth Simmons Named Sole Finalist for President of Prairie View A&M University

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has named Ruth J. Simmons as the sole finalist for the position of President of Prairie View A&M University.

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Home Cooking: Houston Texans Defeat the Cleveland Browns

The Houston Texans got a much needed victory this past Sunday at NRG stadium by defeating the Cleveland Browns 33-17. The Texans got back to their winning ways and got a week off before heading to Seattle to take on the Seahawks. They will need the additional time to get healthy and adjust to the injuries they have suffered on the defensive side of the ball (Whitney Mercilus and JJ Watt are out for the season).

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Ruth J. Simmons Named Sole Finalist for President of PVAMU

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents has named Ruth J. Simmons as the sole finalist for the position of President of Prairie View A&M University.

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Citizens Are Stepping Up to Help Puerto Rico -- The Government, Not So Much

Millions of Americans still face perilous conditions in Puerto Rico. Three weeks after Hurricane Maria savaged the island, over 80 percent still have no electrical power. Forty percent are without running water. Millions are in dire need of food. Water purification systems can't work without electricity.

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5 Things for October 20: John Kelly, Pollution, MH370

Congrats to the L.A. Dodgers! They're headed to the World Series for the first time in almost three decades. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door.

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Trump Judicial Nominee Invoked Nazi Germany In Describing Treatment of Christians In US

President Donald Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in Texas invoked religious crackdowns by the Nazis in Germany and other totalitarian regimes to describe the treatment of Christians in the US during three interviews in 2013 and 2014.

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Trump Warns McCain: 'Be careful because at some point I fight back'

President Donald Trump, hours after Sen. John McCain delivered a speech that repudiated the President, warned the Arizona Republican to "be careful" because at some point he will "fight back."

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GOP Calls Grow to End Russia Investigations In Congress This Year

A growing number of key Republicans are sending this message to the leaders of the congressional committees investigating potential Trump campaign collusion with the Russians: Wrap it up soon.

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Brown Signs Law OK'ing Third Option for Gender On California Driver's Licenses

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will allow state residents who do not identify as male or female to have a third option on driver's licenses and birth certificates.

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James Corden Apologizes for Harvey Weinstein Jokes

Late-night host James Corden apologized for jokes he made about Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced producer who is the target of a growing number of sexual harassment and abuse accusations.