Sources: AP
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
Michigan surpasses 800,000 confirmed cases and 17,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19. 2021-04-21
Florida surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the third U.S. state to do so after California and Texas. 2021-03-20
Former Texas representative Beto O'Rourke drops out of the presidential primaries. 2019-11-1
Flooding from Michigan to the south damages homes and sends the Mississippi River to a 157-year high in Davenport, Iowa. 2019-05-3
Three residents of the U.S. state of Michigan are arrested at Gerald R. Ford International Airport for allegedly conspiring to support the Islamic State. 2019-01-23
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agrees to pay USD $9 billion to buy the parent of Texas power transmission company Oncor Electric Delivery. 2017-07-7
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
A US Appeals Court rules that President Barack Obama will not be able to implement his executive action on immigration while it is being challenged by Texas and 25 other states. 2015-05-26
A mass shooting occurs in east Texas, United States. Four children are killed, all less than 5 years old. ([http:--edition.cnn.com-2011-12-01-justice-texas-mass-shooting-index.html?npt=NP1 CNN])2011-11-30