Sources: AP
The United States Federal Aviation Administration briefly issues a halt to all flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas, due to a balloon that was mistaken for a drone. 2026-02-11
At least five people are killed after a tornado strikes the cities of Pilot Point and Valley View in Texas, United States. 2024-05-25
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announces that the Justice Department has sued the state of Texas over its new abortion law, asking a federal judge to declare the law invalid, in order "to enjoin its enforcement, and to protect the rights that Texas has violated". 2021-09-9
Michigan relaxes several restrictions regarding face mask requirements and outdoor gatherings. 2021-05-4
The United States Census Bureau announces the country's total population to be over 331 million people, thereby marking the second-slowest growth rate in its history. It also announces that Texas will gain two congressional seats during the redistricting process, with Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gaining one seat each; California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will each lose a seat. 2021-04-26
Florida surpasses one million cases, becoming the third state to do so after California and Texas. 2020-12-1
Pfizer announces that they have launched a pilot delivery program for their potential vaccine in Rhode Island, Texas, New Mexico, and Tennessee. 2020-11-17
Michigan reports 5,710 new cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record. 2020-11-5
An explosion at a hospital in the U.S. state of Texas kills one person and injures multiple others. Search dogs are brought in to search the rubble; the building and nearby care homes are evacuated. 2018-06-27
The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire). 2015-11-16